Srinagar: Heavy deployment of security forces was made in Srinagar and other sensitive places in the Kashmir Valley to maintain peace and law and order, even though the separatists did not call for a shutdown, officials said. The authorities decided to close all educational institutions and postpone exams scheduled for[Read More…]
New Delhi: The government announced on Tuesday it will not conduct any re-examination for Class 10 maths paper despite an alleged leak of the question paper. “Consequent to the preliminary evaluation of the impact of reportedly leaked CBSE Class 10 maths paper and keeping in mind the paramount interest of[Read More…]
New Delhi: The government has no intention of changing the existing reservation policy for Dalits and tribes, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh announced on Tuesday. Speaking in the Lok Sabha, Rajnath Singh dubbed as rumours speculation that the government wanted to end the reservation system. “Rumours are being spread about[Read More…]
Bhopal: With the death of one more person, the toll in the police action during protests against the Supreme Court’s dilution of a law aimed at preventing atrocities against Dalits and tribes has risen to seven, officials said on Tuesday. Police said three deaths each had been reported from Gwalior[Read More…]
Jammu: Five soldiers were injured on Tuesday in Pakistani firing on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, police said. Police said the Pakistan Army started unprovoked shelling and firing targeting Indian positions in Krishna Ghati sector. “The firing started at 7.30 a.m. The injured, including[Read More…]
San Francisco: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has hit back at Tim Cook saying that the recent criticism from his counterpart at Apple was unfounded, the media reported. In an interview given to Vox on Monday, Zuckerberg defended his company’s business model by saying: “You know, I find that argument, that[Read More…]
Dehradun: An Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter crash-landed in Kedarnath on Tuesday, police said. The accident took place when the MI-17 chopper was trying to land far from the Kedarnath shrine. There were eight people — six passengers, pilot and co-pilot — onboard but all are safe with minor injuries,[Read More…]
Bengaluru: Indian space scientists and engineers are making all-out efforts to establish a link with the communication satellite GSAT-6A launched on March 29, said an official on Tuesday. “Efforts are on to establish the communication link with the satellite,” an official from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) told IANS[Read More…]
Patna: The RJD, Congress and CPI-ML legislators protested in the Bihar Assembly on Tuesday against the police action on Dalits during demonstrations in the state the previous day. Soon after the last day of the budget session began, the opposition members trooped near the Speaker’s podium carrying placards, posters and[Read More…]
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and other party leaders have apologized to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for making allegations against him, a source said on Monday. A Kejriwal aide told IANS that a joint petition will be filed by the AAP leaders and Jaitley in a Delhi[Read More…]
Patna: BJP leader Anil Singh, the key accused in inciting communal violence in Bihar’s Aurangabad district, surrendered on Monday, two days after he escaped from police custody, the authorities said. Soon after he surrendered, Singh was sent to 14 days judicial custody, Aurangabad Superiintendent of Police Satya Prakash Singh said. Singh,[Read More…]
Lucknow: A ‘Bharat Bandh’ called by some Dalit groups against a Supreme Court ruling on the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe Act triggered violence in parts of Uttar Pradesh on Monday, police said. Protesters attacked shops, looted some of them and pelted stones at police in Hapur, Agra, Meerut and Saharanpur, reports[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha was informed on Monday that the Centre has filed a review petition over the Supreme Court’s order for the dilution of the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act. Amid protests and din in the Lower House, Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said the SC/ST Act was an important[Read More…]
Beijing: Chinese space lab Tiangong-1 re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere on Monday in the central region of the South Pacific, the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) said. Most parts of the space station disintegrated during its re-entry at 8.15 a.m., due to the high temperature generated by the friction with[Read More…]
Patna: Thousands of Dalit members on Monday staged protests across Bihar on Monday against the dilution of the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act, disrupting rail and road traffic, police said. With posters, banners and flags, supporters of the Bhim Army and other Dalit organidations, halted over a dozen long-distance trains,[Read More…]
Hyderabad: A Telugu news anchor committed suicide by jumping off the fifth floor of her apartment building here, police said on Monday. V. Radhika Reddy, 36, who was associated with the V6 News channel, killed herself at Srivila Apartment in Moosapet on Sunday night. A suicide note written in Telugu[Read More…]
Chennai: The DMK on Monday staged protests here against the Central government for not setting up the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) as per the Supreme Court’s orders. Party members protested in several places in the city including the arterial Anna Salai stretch in Saidapet here affecting traffic. The DMK had[Read More…]
Srinagar: Authorities imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar on Monday to maintain law and order in the wake of the killing of 20 people in three separate gunfights on Sunday, police said. Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL), a separatist conglomerate headed by Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Muhammad Yasin[Read More…]
Mumbai: Google on Saturday created a special Doodle to mark the 153rd birth anniversary of Thane-born Anandi Gopal Joshi, regarded as India’s first US-trained female medico. The Goodle, designed by Kashmira Sarode of Bengaluru, depicts a young sari-clad Anandi, with a heavy Maharashtrian nose-ring and a prominent bindi. She is seen[Read More…]
Lucknow: A statue of Dalit icon Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was vandalised in Allahabad on Saturday, police said. The statue with its head chopped off was found by residents at a park in the city’s Trivenipuram locality. “We are aware of the matter and are trying to locate the suspects,” Senior[Read More…]
New York: A UN employee has accused a top organisation official of sexual assault and claimed that the world body failed to take her complaint seriously, the media reported. In an exclusive interview with CNN on Friday, Martina Brostrom accused Luiz Loures, a UN Assistant Secretary General, of grabbing her[Read More…]
Lucknow: Three people were killed after a dust storm hit Uttar Pradesh, police said on Saturday. One person was killed after a wooden shaft collapsed on him in Gonda while two labourers died in Azamgarh when the roof of an under-construction building fell on them. The deaths took place on[Read More…]
New Delhi: Questioning the commitment of Bihar’s Nitish Kumar government against corruption and communalism, Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind (JUH) General Secretary Maulana Mahmood Madani on Friday said that the communal flare up in the state could have been stopped if they had taken timely steps. “If the necessary action had been taken against[Read More…]
New Delhi: Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte will be on a two-day visit to India on May 24-25, the country’s embassy said in a statement here on Friday. Ahead of the visist, a Dutch delegation comprising officials, companies and institutions will arrive on May 22 and stay till May 25.[Read More…]
Kathmandu: Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli will visit India from April 6 to 8 on his maiden foreign trip after assuming office, in line with the tradition of a Nepali PM visiting India on his first overseas trip, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Friday. Oli’s visit comes[Read More…]
