In a recent report by police, four men smuggling 75 dogs to Nagaland for meat have been arrested. The Samaguri townfolks spotted the pick-up van on Thursday evening through which the dogs were smuggled. Police said that 22 out of the 75 dogs collapsed due to asphyxiation and seven were[Read More…]
The Supreme Court on Friday said that the government cannot make it obligatory to link Aadhaar card particulars to one’s PAN card for Income Tax purposes till the Constitutional Bench decides the matter. The Supreme Court ruled that the government must prepare a scheme to avoid the leakage of personal[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh Secondary Education Board has declared the results for Class 10th and 12th on Friday. Students can check their results on the official website of the board upresults.nic.in. Earlier, the UP board results were about to be declared by the end of May but later the date got extended. However, 81.6% of[Read More…]
Social networking giant Facebook is planning to observe people’s behavior secretly and record users through their webcams and Smartphone cameras. “According to a newly discovered patent, the company will use technology to see how facial expressions of users change when they come across different types of content on the site,”[Read More…]
On Madras High Court’s decision to restrain the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) from announcing the NEET results, CBSE has now moved the Supreme Court challenging the Madras High Court order. However, the SC will hear the matter on Monday. CBSE sought for SC to lift the stay of[Read More…]
With the roll-out of the Goods and Service Tax (GST) regime from July 1, the tax waiver to films by the Haryana government will be a thing of past. However, if the state waives tax on a movie, it will not only lose its own share of the GST, but will[Read More…]
A call centre, which duped thousands of US citizens, has been exposed by the Thane crime branch in Ambernath. The call centres were intervened during the night of June 8 and 9. Eventually, it was found that they fooled customers in name of easy loans. The BPO, Rackon enterprise was[Read More…]
In order to promote agricultural activities and turning the dry land into a fertile area, the state government is going to employ 200 clusters in 25 districts in Tamil Nadu. The initiative has been taken under the Mission on Sustainable Dryland Agriculture (MSDA) which will further improve the livelihood of[Read More…]
On Friday, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders headed to drought-hit Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh, where five farmers lost their lives in police firing on Tuesday. Their visit comes a day after Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s dramatic attempt to visit Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur and his brief arrest. Mr Gandhi headed[Read More…]
The US State Department has notified that the USA is looking forward to host Prime Minister Narendra Modi later this month. “We look forward to having the (Indian) Prime Minister here in Washington – I believe it’s later this month,” State Department Spokesperson, Heather Nauert, said at a news conference[Read More…]
On Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Astana ahead of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit. Sources said the two leaders exchanged pleasantries at the function, but no bilateral meeting was expected. “Since it was the first occasion when the two leaders came across each[Read More…]
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat criticised the US for its choice to exit the Paris climate deal. “Those who talk about coordinating development with the environment were recently seen exiting… When their country’s selfish interests are affected, they the move out… like the Paris deal,” said Bhagwat. But, “the Hindu community[Read More…]
At the back of the farmer’s protest in Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh, the Congress lashed out at the Centre, saying that they would stand with the farmers and if that is politics, then they are playing it. “As long as the farmers are in distress or in any kind of[Read More…]
On Thursday, Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh commenting on the farmers’ protest said that yoga was the answer to the farmers’ problems. In Bihar, on a 3-day yoga festival organised by Baba Ramdev, when Singh was asked about the five farmers who have been killed in the protest, Singh[Read More…]
On Thursday, in Darjeeling, agitated Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) activists burned at least four police vehicles and threw stones at policemen who heaved tear-gas shells to disperse them. Notably, there will be 12-hour bandh observed in the district tomorrow. Soon as CM Mamata Banerjee came out of the Raj Bhawan,[Read More…]
India is ranked among countries with the lowest internet speed. 4G speed in India is lower than the world average and it even ranks below Pakistan, Sri Lanka. With the advent of Reliance Jio, India was ranked among the top users of 4G LTE. According to a new report by[Read More…]
Indian Oil Corporation on Thursday that the prices of petrol and diesel will be revised on a daily basis from June 16th all over the country. In a statement, it said, that all public sector oil companies, including IOC, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation and Bharat Petroleum, will implement the decision. However, it is[Read More…]
In India, with government facilitating paperless travel, air passengers will soon be needing to produce their unique identity details (UID) details at the time of booking tickets, as the government looks to facilitate paperless travel. On Thursday, the Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha said that the Ministry[Read More…]
The Janata Dal United (JDU) on Thursday organised a press conference on the ongoing farmer tension in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh. Farmer issues were discussed at length in the conference. The party leaders said that they condemn the ill-treatment meted out to the farmers in Mandsaur. They said that they fully[Read More…]
In the latest Forbes list, Captain Virat Kohli is the only sportsperson from India who made it among the world’s 100 highest paid athletes, topped by Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo. Kohli, 28-year-old, has been ranked 89th in the Forbes 2017 list of ‘The World’s highest paid athletes’ with a total[Read More…]
In a historic achievement for India, a planet in the Milky Way has been named after a 12th standard girl from Bengaluru. Sahithi Pingali has developed an app to collect data on the frothy, polluted lakes of Bengaluru through crowd-sourcing. She entered the app in the Intel International Science and[Read More…]
The networking that the world has achieved due to social media has an alternate side to it. The reports of incidences of spamming by bots and fake accounts on Twitter have been increasing. Such accounts can help trend and spread Fake News and opinions, creating confusions and potentially, spreading rumours.[Read More…]
Shivkumar Sharma, former RSS leader and national convener of Rashtriya Kisan Mazdoor Sangh, who has organised leadership of farmers’ protest in Madhya Pradesh, had also led a farmers’ protest against shortage of gunny bags in Bareli town. This was in 2012 while he was the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh’s (BKS), general[Read More…]
Shiv Aroor is a well-known name in the media industry. A journalist for more than a decade, he has received several Awards for excellence in reporting. As his new book, ‘Operation Jinnah’ hits stand, Newsd talks to the man about his mind-boggling life experiences, its topsy-turvy curves, and motivations. Moreover, his obsession[Read More…]
