Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), under the Maneka Gandhi-led Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD), claimed that since 2012, nearly 60 per cent of those adopted across the country were girl children. CARA CEO, Col. Deepak Kumar, recognises the change as progressive and broadening of mindsets among Indian parents.[Read More…]
New Delhi: A foetus was found abandoned in the washroom of a hospital here, police said. Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Kumar Gyanesh said the matter was reported from Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital on Sunday afternoon. He said a case has been registered under Section 318 of the Indian Penal[Read More…]
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Dr Raman Singh has declared to distribute total of 50 Lakhs smartphones to the youths and women. This was announced in the ‘Mobile Tihar’ programme held in Raipur under the communications Revolution scheme. He believes this will provide accessibility to the modern means of communication ‘internet’ to[Read More…]
Addressing the media on Monday July 30 following Assam’s final draft list of eligible citizens, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed that Bengalis living in Assam were targeted in the “divide and rule game plan.” Expressing her concern over the 40 lakh applicants who were denied spot on the[Read More…]
A young couple who was parted by Ghaziabad police for belonging to two different faiths has been reunited by the Delhi High Court. The couple was living in the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus when a team of Loni police station came and arrested the husband. Both of them are majors[Read More…]
A city court on Monday issued summons to former Railway Minister Lalu Prasad, his wife Rabri Devi, son Tejashwi Yadav and others in connection with the 2006 IRCTC hotels maintenance contract case. The case relates to alleged irregularities in the allotment of contracts of two IRCTC hotels in Ranchi and[Read More…]
In a major turn of event in the mass death of whole family at once, police enquiry has found that the children and their father were strangulated, while the mother’s body sustains injury mark on her body from some sharp weapon. Though the post-mortem report is yet to come and[Read More…]
Cuttack: Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra on Sunday advised the law students not to be guided by the majoritarian views and remain true to their conviction. You should never be guided by the majoritarian views. Be true to your own conviction and conscience and always endeavour to be responsibly[Read More…]
Super30, a free tutorial to coach 30 bright aspirants of IIT entrance test who come from underprivileged families of Bihar is said to be an exceptional idea. The international exposure this concept got was phenomenal. It made IPS officer and educationalist Abhayanand and Ramanujam School of Mathematics teacher Anand Kumar[Read More…]
New Delhi: Alleged personal details of India’s telecom watchdog chief R.S. Sharma were leaked on Saturday after the TRAI chairman threw a challenge and tweeted his 12-digit Aadhaar asking if it had made him vulnerable to any security risk. A French security expert, who goes by the nickname Elliot Alderson[Read More…]
Jammu and Kashmir’s first woman chief minister describes her experience working with the coalition of BJP as ‘not easy’. She compared it with having a cup of poison. This was her first public meeting ever since she left chief minister position last month after BJP took away its support in[Read More…]
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday claimed that the due to the Rafale fighter jet deal, Indian taxpayers will have to pay the Prime Minister’s friend’s joint venture Rs 1 lakh crore over five decades to maintain the aircraft. Taking a dig, he said that Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will[Read More…]
National Women Commission member visits the Muzaffarpur shelter home but she was not allowed to go inside and talk to people. Ranjit Ranjan has raised this issue in Parliament also. There are total 15 institutions that are run by the government but the FIR of only one institution was registered.[Read More…]
The Shiv Sena on Saturday sought to embarrass its Bharatiya Janata Party ruling ally by suggesting that Pankaja Munde, a minister in the Maharashtra cabinet, be unanimously anointed as Chief Minister for an hour to clear the Maratha quotas file. The Sena’s advice came after Women and Child Welfare Minister[Read More…]
Punjab National Bank (PNB) has collected Rs 151.66 crore as penalty from its customers who could not maintain a minimum balance in saving accounts during the fiscal year 2017-18. “During 2017-18, a total penalty of Rs 1.51 billion has been recovered due to non-maintenance of minimum balance in 122,98,748 savings[Read More…]
Three students were beaten and arrested late Friday for showing black flags to BJP National President Amit Shah, during his visit to Allahabad. Protesters including two girl students and one boy raised blacks flags and slogans in front of BJP leader Amit Shah’s cavalcade. As per the reports, ‘unemployment’ was[Read More…]
Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said the GST has replaced the ‘Congress Legacy Tax’ — which was 31 per cent for most goods — with a ‘good and simple tax’, adding that the existing 28 per cent slab will be phased out following further improvement in revenue collections. It[Read More…]
A dip in the divine Ganges wipes out the sins of people making a route to heaven. People have believed this for ages. It is not just a river, but an embodiment of sacredness and sanctity. A Hindu ritual is considered even more pious with the addition of water from[Read More…]
Gitanjali Group of firms owner Mehul Choksi, involved in a Rs 14,000 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) banking scam in India, confirmed through a legal response on Friday that that he moved to Carribbean nation of Antigua from the US weeks ago using a local passport. Fugitive Choksi claims he[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh Congress president and former Minister of Urban Development Kamal Nath has said that all the files of corruptions will be straightened out in public. He also proposed his intentions to set up an enquiry over the sand mining scandal if the Congress party is brought back to power while speaking[Read More…]
Hari Om Pandey, Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Uttar Pradesh has made a discriminatory statement, blaming the Muslim community responsible for increasing cases on mob lynching in India. BJP leader Pandey said that it’s of grave concern that the Muslim population is increasing because “that’s the reason for growing incidents[Read More…]
Delhi Patiala House Court has decided to declare order on July 30 on, if the RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, his wife Rabri Devi and their son Tejashwi Yadav has to be summoned along with the other 14 people who are charged with the hotel for land scam. The CBI[Read More…]
India and South Africa signed three agreements, including in the areas of agriculture and space cooperation, following bilateral talks between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on the sidelines of the annual BRICS Summit here. Addressing the media, Indian Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said that[Read More…]
New Delhi: Constitutional rights define and shape the lives of citizens and societies and have to be construed and developed in such a manner that their real intent and existence percolates to the lowest rungs in the society, said Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra. Delivering the M.C. Setalvad Memorial[Read More…]
New Delhi: A bill that provides for supersession of the Central Council of Homeopathy and constituting a Board of Governors was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Monday and was taken up for discussion. The Homoeopathy Central Council (Amendment) Bill, 2018 was introduced by Ayush Minister Shripad Yesso Naik and[Read More…]