Domestic fuel prices witnessed the steepest hike in the year so far with around 50-paise raise on Friday across the four metro cities. Both petrol and diesel prices have been at their all-time high in the country for around a week now, due to increase in crude oil prices and depreciation in the rupee against the dollar. The weakening of[Read More…]
Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Ram Kadam, who was recently under spotlight for his controversial statement claiming to kidnap girls for boys, has been ranked the worst MLA for the second time in a row. Of the 32 MLA on the list for a survey, Ram Kadam stood the last. The[Read More…]
The Supreme Court’s historic verdict on decriminalising Section 377 filled the LGBTQAI+ community with joy all over the country on Tuesday. The members of the LGBT community gathered at different places across the country to celebrate the verdict. A similar sense of joy could be felt on social media as[Read More…]
Sukma district of Chhattisgarh is always in news for Naxal attack and violence. On September 1, one security personnel was killed and three others were injured in the Maoist attack. Sukma district hospital which is the largest in the area lacks basic medical facility. The hospital also lacks in basic[Read More…]
While the nation faces the fury of rising Rupee mark and increasing petrol prices in the Modi-led BJP governance, two of the party supporters – Sanju Verma and Sonam Mahajan – get into a heated argument among themselves on national television, debating over the failure or success of Narendra Modi’s[Read More…]
The Supreme Court’s historic verdict on decriminalising Section 377 filled the LGBTQAI+ community with joy all over the country on Tuesday. The members of the LGBT community gathered at different places across the country to celebrate the verdict. A similar sense of joy could be felt on social media as[Read More…]
BJP leader Giriraj Singh is again in news. This time he has shared a picture of Rahul Gandhi’s Kailash Mansarovar yatra and claimed it a photoshopped one. Singh tweeted the image and said that it is a photoshopped image of him. He asked- “where is the shadow of the stick?”[Read More…]
September 6 came out as a historic day for India and its LGBT community as the Supreme Court decriminalised the Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which considered gay sex a criminal offence. Following the momentous verdict by a five-judge bench, the entire nation stood in support. From activists[Read More…]
Uday Dixit, a former employee of Larsen and Toubro (L&T) filed a petition before the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) against chief A M Naik, alleging the company committed fraud on shareholders and its employees. The petitioner Dixit sought action against the company and its major, Naik, accusing oppression and[Read More…]
Amid widespread anger, including calls of ‘Bharat bandh’, against the amendment to the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan Thursday said all political parties should get together to discuss the issue. A Bharat bandh was called Thursday by some anti-reservation bodies against the amendment to the Act last month. The Lok Sabha and the Rajya[Read More…]
Financially troubled Jet Airways on Thursday said that it is in talks with pilots and other employees to resolve salary disbursement issues. “Jet Airways is committed to honoring its obligations towards its employees and has already paid salaries on time to 84 percent of its employees,” a Jet Airways spokesperson said in a statement. “In line with the mandate received from the Company’s Board[Read More…]
Tension gripped Noida’s Gejha village where alleged remains of a cow were found Thursday, prompting police to file a case and arrest seven people suspected of slaughtering the animal. The remains were spotted by locals near a ‘baraat ghar’ in a meat market in the village in Sector 93 in the morning and they soon alerted the police on the emergency 100 number, officials said. Based on a complaint[Read More…]
The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the appointment of five advocates as judges of the Delhi High Court. The Collegium comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Madan B. Lokur — three senior most judges of the apex court — in its September 4 resolution, recommended the names of[Read More…]
The Congress will organise a nationwide shutdown on September 10 over rising fuel prices, parties leaders announced Thursday and asked other opposition parties and civil society groups to join their protest against the government. The common man was bearing the brunt of the escalating prices of petrol, diesel and cooking[Read More…]
The following is a timeline of the LGBTIQ community’s fight against the colonial era law criminalising homosexuality: 1991: AIDS Bhedbhav Virodhi Andolan (ABVA) is first to raise its voice against Section 377 of IPC. The NGO comes out with a report about ostracism faced by the LGBTIQ community. 1994: ABVA[Read More…]
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Thursday said that it does not endorse homosexuality because it needs to be addressed socially and psychologically but at the same time the organisation agrees with the Supreme Court’s view that same sex relations are not a crime. “Like SC, we also do not consider[Read More…]
Political party leaders in Tamil Nadu on Thursday welcomed a Supreme Court order asking the Governor to decide on the mercy petition of A.G. Perarivalan, serving life term for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. DMK President M.K. Stalin, welcoming the apex court’s decision, said Chief Minister K. Palaniswami should[Read More…]
Chandigarh Traffic police has issued challan o as many as 128 women for not wearing a helmet while riding two-wheelers on the first day of the challan drive on Wednesday. The traffic police will continue their awareness campaign for another 10 days while also issuing challans to the offenders. While[Read More…]
Another death suspected due to Blue Whale Challenge in Tamil Nadu. An engineer of Panrutti in Cuddalore is believed to be playing the deadly game that led him to commit suicide. Police has seized numerous books on ghosts and a mobile phone which he had used to play the suicidal[Read More…]
The income tax department conducted a raid at Rekha Modi residence in state capital Patna in connection with multi-crore Srijan scam. Rekha is a cousin of Bihar’s deputy chief minister Sushil Modi. The raid was conducted at eight places that include Patna, Purnea, and Bhagalpur. Srijan Mahila Vikas Sahyog Samiti[Read More…]
One more person is killed and two others are injured in Jharkhand’s Palamu district in a mob violence triggered by rumours of being a thief. Vikas, Bablu, and Guddu had gone to look for a bride in the Tisibar village on Wednesday night. All the victims belong to Bihar’s Dehri[Read More…]
It is astonishing and equally a proud moment for India to see two of its women representing the country at the international platform while the hailing US comes with two men in front. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman held the first high-level two-plus-two talks with[Read More…]
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday raided nearly 40 locations in Chennai, including the premises of several top ministers, police officers and revenue officials, in connection with the 2017 gutkha scam. The homes of Tamil Nadu DGP TK Rajendran, ex-DGP S George, Health Minister C Vijayabaskar were also searched.[Read More…]
Indian Railways to manufacture 3100 more electric engines within five years. The manufacturing will be done at four major loco production centres in India including Chittaranjan, Varanasi, Dankuni and Patiala. The manufacturing includes newly installed WAG-9 three phase advanced engine production that is mostly used in goods trains. Southern Railways[Read More…]
