New Delhi: Protesting against the CBSE question paper leak, the NSUI on Friday met Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar and demanded the sacking of CBSE chief Anita Karwal. Leaders of the Congress-affiliated National Students Union of India also demanded that the affected students be given the option to[Read More…]
Mumbai: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena President Raj Thackeray on Friday asked students and parents to “boycott the re-examinations” proposed by the government over the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) question paper leak. Addressing parents and students, Thackeray said it was the responsibility of the government, but instead of owning up[Read More…]
New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Friday taunted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking him if he was now penning a book for students on how to de-stress after their lives were “destroyed” following the leak of CBSE question papers. Gandhi said Modi “wrote ‘Exam Warriors’, a book to teach[Read More…]
London: Despite British consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica’s claim that it has deleted data of over 50 million Facebook users, portions of the data is still out in the wild, the media reported. According to a report in UK’s Channel 4 News, the cache of campaign data from a Cambridge Analytica[Read More…]
Srinagar: Around half a dozen seasonal huts of the Army were torched by unidentified arsonists along the historic Mughal road in the Kashmir Valley on Friday, police said. “Fire tenders were immediately deployed to douse the flames. A case has been registered and investigations have started,” police sources said. These[Read More…]
New Delhi: The BJP on Thursday accused former Law Minister and Congress leader Kapil Sibal of being involved in a “land scam” claiming that he bought a piece of land in Delhi worth crores for a “very small price” from an accused in a money laundering case. Referring to a report[Read More…]
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): India on Thursday successfully launched the GSAT-6A satellite that would provide mobile communication facilities, using its heavy rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F08), in a copy book style. The GSLV-MkII rocket slung the satellite in a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) from where it would be taken up to[Read More…]
New Delhi: Dubbing the Modi government a ‘one-scam-a-day government, the Congress on Thursday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley break their silence on different bank frauds, including the latest in ICICI and IDBI banks. The opposition party said bank scams had become the order of the[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) on Thursday said a slowdown in baggage handling system (BHS) due to increased levels of “dangerous goods” found in checked-in luggage impacted numerous passengers. According to the firm that operates and manages the IGI airport here, manual reconciliation was conducted of the suspect[Read More…]
Jammu: After a lull of ten days, Indian and Pakistan army traded fire on the line of control (LoC) in Poonch district on late Tuesday. A Defence Ministry official said the Pakistan army started shelling and firing at Indian positions in Khari Karmara area of the LoC in Poonch district.[Read More…]
Lucknow: The BSP, which enabled the success of Samajwadi Party (SP) candidates in the Phulpur and Gorakhpur parliamentary bypolls by successfully transferring its votes to them, will in future not play such an “active role”, according to party chief Mayawati. At a meeting with her party leaders, office bearers and[Read More…]
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday met leaders from the BJP ally Shiv Sena as well as MPs from several opposition parties in the national capital. Banerjee visited Parliament on Tuesday where she met Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut and Nationalist[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Central government has no proposal to scrap Article 370 of the Constitution which gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir, Minister of State for Home Affairs Hansraj Gangaram Ahir said on Tuesday. Responding to a written question in the Lok Sabha, Ahir said: “There is currently no[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said any interference by the Khap panchayats to scuttle marriage between two consenting adults is illegal. The bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud laid down remedial and preventive measures that would operate till a statutory framework to[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Congress on Monday termed the Narendra Modi government’s claim of ensuring MSP at “50 per cent more than actual cost of production” to farmers another “jumla” and accused Finance Minister Arun Jaitley “blatantly” lying in his budget speech. “In the run-up to 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Prime[Read More…]
Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Monday indicated that her party might align with Samajwadi Party (SP) in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections after the one-time bitter rivals helped defeat the BJP in the Gorakhpur and Phulpur parliamentary bypolls. According the official sources, the four-time Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister[Read More…]
Chennai: Banks will not remain closed for five consecutive days starting from Thursday, a union leader said on Monday. “The banks will work on March 31 (Saturday) and there is no continuous holidays as per messages in the social media,” D. Thomas Franco Rajendra Dev, General Secretary of the All[Read More…]
New Delhi: Fearing a blanket ban on e-cigarettes by the government in view of the limited awareness about the relative benefits of vaping over smoking, the Association of Vapors India (AVI) on Saturday stressed that nicotine should not be blamed for smoking-related deaths. There is a widespread misconception about the[Read More…]
New Delhi: Actor-producer Ajay Devgn says he associates himself with projects he likes. Ajay ventured into Marathi cinema with “Aapla Manus”, which released in February. Asked if he would like to venture more into Marathi scripts, Ajay told IANS here: “When I hear good scripts, I want to make them[Read More…]
Srinagar: Two foreign militants were killed on Saturday in a gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district, police said. “The militants killed in the Shistargam village gunfight have been identified as foreigners and most likely of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit,” police sources said. The gunfight[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday said that it has attached properties worth Rs 25 crore of diamond jeweller Nirav Modi in connection with its ongoing probe into the Rs 13,540 crore PNB fraud case. An ED official told IANS that the searches were carried out on Thursday[Read More…]
Ranchi: A special CBI court on Saturday sentenced RJD chief Lalu Prasad to seven years in jail in the fourth fodder scam case and fined him Rs 30 lakh. He was convicted on March 19. IANS
New Delhi: In a major relief to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Delhi High Court on Friday restored the legislatorship of 20 ruling party MLAs who were disqualified for holding offices-of-profit. Setting aside the Election Commission recommendation disqualifying the MLAs, the court quashed the January 20 presidential order and referred[Read More…]
New Delhi: The CBI on Friday said it has registered a fresh case against former MCX Managing Director Jignesh Shah for allegedly facilitating nationwide multi exchange status for the Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (MCX). Four former chairpersons of the Forward Market Commission and six others have also been[Read More…]
Lucknow: In a jolt to the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), its legislator Anil Singh on Friday voted for BJP candidates in the Rajya Sabha polls currently underway in Uttar Pradesh. Talking to the media after casting his vote, Singh, who met chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday night, said he[Read More…]
