Sudha Bharadwaj is one of the five activists arrested by the Pune Police on August 28. She is a prominent lawyer, activists, and trade union, leader. Her daughter Maaysha Nehra wrote a heartfelt emotional letter about her mother and a followed arrest that created a nationwide stir. It was 7[Read More…]
Drones are proving to be the most cutting-edge innovations for emergency situations, health hazards being one of them. To the saviour, comes a start-up aiming to revolutionise the way blood reaches the remote areas across the country. Anshul Sharma (23), Arnab Bhattacharya (24), and Rishabh Gupta (25), aerospace graduates from MIT,[Read More…]
The Government has decided to hold the Aero India 2019 in Bengaluru from 20-24 February 2019. This five-day event will combine a major trade exhibition for the aerospace and defense industries with public air shows. Besides global leaders and big investors in the aerospace industry, the show will also see participation by think-tanks from across[Read More…]
Sagar M Mavani, a stand-up comedian from Mumbai, had lost a gift he had brought for his wife in Mumbai local train. To his saviour came the Mumbai’s Central Railway and RPF in front, tracing and returning the lost gift. Sagar had boarded a Kalyan local from Vidyavihar and got off at Thakurli,[Read More…]
Reserve Bank of India has introduced new rules for the mutilated notes refund. On Friday RBI issued an advisory to all its branches for the exchange of mutilated/defective notes. As per the new amendments to the Reserve Bank of India (note refund) rules 2009, the public can exchange mutilated notes in Mahatma[Read More…]
Hima Das, who registered a historic win at Asian Games 2018, by clinching three medals on her debut, received a grand and unique welcome at the Guwahati airport on her return to Assam on Friday, September 7. Hima Das, who hails from Assam, was welcomed by Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal[Read More…]
Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday said he was a liberal and did not agree with the anti-sacrilege bills recently passed by the Punjab Assembly. The former home minister, however, added that his views were “irrelevant” as he was not PunjabChief Minister Amarinder Singh’s “boss”. He said it was not Singh alone, but a number of legislators from almost all the parties in[Read More…]
The supreme court on Friday asked the Centre and States to give wide publicity on radio, television and other media platforms to its direction that lynching and mob violence of any kind will invite serious consequence under the law. The top court by its July 17 judgment had directed the Central and the state governments to “broadcast on radio and television and other media[Read More…]
Various aspects of Hindu philosophy can help find the solution to several problems that plague the world today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday and called for using technology to connect more people with the thoughts of Hinduism. In his message to the second World Hindu Congress here, Modi said that digitizing various treatises and ancient epics can deepen their connection with the younger generation.[Read More…]
Opposition leader Sharad Yadav on Thursday September 7, backed the shutdown called by Congress against rising petrol prices. Yadav said that the country was in “great distress” as the Narendra Modi government had failed in discharging its duties and fulfilling its promises to the people. “The people of the country[Read More…]
The shifting at midnight of the Jammu and Kashmir police chief, S.P. Vaid, has triggered an interesting debate in the state. The replacement surprised many although a few in the bureaucratic and police circles had been expecting the change sooner rather than later. An order issued by the state home department around midnight on Thursday said,: “Dr.[Read More…]
Mount Kailash and Lake Mansarovar, adjacently located to each in an area not far from the trisection of Nepal-India-Tibet Autonomous Region, are sacred pilgrimage destinations to people of four different religions – Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Bon. Religious Significance – Kailash Mansarovar has great importance in mythology and history. Hindu[Read More…]
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…]
