Karnataka jail department officials have denied reports on Wednesday that AIADMK general secretary V K Sasikala has been enjoying special facilities in Parappana Agrahara prison in Bengaluru and is likely to be shifted to a jail in Tamil Nadu. In response to a set of queries raised by advocate M[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday mocked Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi while attributing a quote which he had never said. Addressing a rally in Maharajganj, Modi mocked Rahul, asking his supporters if they have ever heard of anything called coconut juice. “Yesterday he (a Congress politician) made a very[Read More…]
Women’s wing leader of BJP party Juhi Chowdhury who was arrested on Tuesday in connection with an alleged child trafficking case, has been sent to 12-day police custody by the Jalpaiguri Court. Juhi Chowdhury was arrested from Batasia area close to the Indo-Nepal border on Tuesday night. CID have claimed that she has[Read More…]
It has been over a week since violence erupted on the Delhi University campus. It started with Ramjas College canceling a seminar invitation to JNU students Umar Khalid and Shehla Rashid after a protest by ABVP. Soon, the episode attracted reactions from people from the different field; with political parties[Read More…]
Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag issued new statements on Wednesday and clarified his tweet that created a furor across the nation. The former cricketer was accused of bullying Gurmehar Kaur, after he posted a tweet that was seen as a way to mock at the 20-year-old girl. After receiving much backlash[Read More…]
Almost a year since Kanhaiya Kumar’s arrest on charges of sedition, the Delhi Police has reportedly not found any absolute evidence to pursue its charges against the former student of Jawaharlal Nehru University. Kanahaiya Kumar was jailed on February 9, 2016. He was charged with sedition, along with two other[Read More…]
The Jammu-Srinagar national highway will remain closed on Wednesday for the second consecutive day due to heavy landslides, reported IANS. Authorities reported that there have been colossal landslides in Ramban district of Jammu and Kashmir blocking and wrecking major parts of the roads. In places around Mehar, clearance of the[Read More…]
Padma Shri Indian playwright Tarak Mehta passes away at the age of 87, on Wednesday. Mehta was a renowned Indian humorist best known for his Gujarati columns in Duniya Ne Undha Chashma. Apart from being a playwright and a humorist he was also a prolific writer. He has translated and[Read More…]
The Annual Survey of India’s City-Systems (ASICS), released by Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy on Tuesday, ranked 21 key cities from 18 states in the nation, based on 83 parameters on the City-Systems framework. In the annual survey, Bengaluru has slipped from rank 12 in 2015 to rank 16[Read More…]
After receiving a number of pleas filed by the animal rights activists, the Supreme Court on Wednesday will resume its hearing on people’s request to stop the killing of stray dogs. The activists have challenged the order passed by various civic bodies for the culling of stray dogs in Kerala[Read More…]
Congress lawmaker Shashi Tharoor is the latest personality to join the intense ongoing debate on 20-year-old Gurmehar Kaur’s Facebook posts. The leader strongly expressed regret over cricketer Virender Sehwag’s tweet that was seen as mocking Kaur’s views about her father’s death. Sehwag has taken a jibe at Kaur, a Delhi[Read More…]
A sessions court in Jhabua on Tuesday sentenced two teenagers to life imprisonment for the murder of another teenager. Radhu Nana Palia, 16, was stabbed in Jhabua on December 5, 2016. He was allegedly killed for Rs500. Palia was rushed to a local hospital after the incident. Two minors, a[Read More…]
In its summer forecast for the season (March to May), India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted an “above normal” temperature across the nation. Notably, even the coldest January was recorded as the eighth warmest in 116 years. Many states may witness heatwave conditions, said the weathermen. As per the IMD,[Read More…]
Central Statistics Office on Tuesday pegged India’s growth rate at 7 percent for the current fiscal, 7.3 per cent for fiscal year 2018 and 7.7 percent for fiscal year 2019. In a statement, the CSO said, “Agriculture and allied sector growth estimated at 4.4 percent in 2016-17, up from 0.8[Read More…]
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) issued a notice on Tuesday to Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik over the alleged police excesses against students and journalists outside Ramjas College on February 22. During a clash between different student groups outside the Delhi University college last week, police allegedly attacked a[Read More…]