In a nation that still has the Nehru-Gandhi hangover, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has left his own mark. While his dissenters are also more proactive than ever before, India has gotten a dynamic and vocal Prime Minister after a long time. From his frequent foreign tours and tailor-made suits carrying[Read More…]
The political storm in Kashmir intensified after Srinagar MP Tariq Hameed Karra resigned from his Lok Sabha seat and PDP party citing “a sellout.” He accused the ruling Mufti-led-PDP of “treating people much worse than Nazis” and blamed the Centre for adding “fuel to fire” in the Valley with its[Read More…]
Here is a four point four-point compromise formula of the Samajwadi Party that brokered the truce in the Yadav Pari’War’. 1) Gayatri Prasad Prajapati to be minister again, but will get different portfolio. 2) Shivpal to get back his portfolios and also be state President. 3) Akhilesh to have an important say in ticket distribution.[Read More…]
A dawn-to-dusk bandh called by several farmers and traders bodies over the raging Cauvery dispute began on Friday across Tamil Nadu amid tight security with Opposition parties, including the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), supporting it. However, normal life is not affected much. Government-run buses, government offices, government schools and banks[Read More…]
Just days ahead of the Apple iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus‘s India launch, a group of men hijacked a truck carrying a consignment of the Rs 60,000-priced flagship phones near Vasant Kunj in South Delhi by attacking the driver with chilli powder. The accused then drove the truck to[Read More…]
A St. Stephen College student recently shared a harrowing incident on Facebook Page Pinjra Tod which went viral. The girl described the incident which took place on 8th September in her PG in Lajpat Nagar where she found a drunk intruder with his ‘pants down’ in her Kitchen. She pulled[Read More…]
Cases of dengue across the country have been on the rise but one of the worst affected places has to be Kanpur. The onslaught of the vector-borne disease is being felt the most by the police department as 250 of its personnel have been tested positive. With more than 2000[Read More…]
For Delhi health minister Satyendra Jain Google is the most reliable source of information as according to him chikungunya cannot cause deaths because the search engine told him so. The minister said that four of the five supposed chikunguniya deaths in Delhi were reported from the same hospital, which seems ‘suspicious’. Jain[Read More…]
The lawyers of the Madras Bar Association, Madras High Court Advocates Association and Women Lawyers Association have expressed shock over reports that senior lawyer Nalini Chidambaram may be issued fresh summons by the Enforcement Directorate to be present at its Kolkata office in connection with fees received by her in[Read More…]
After the major embarrassment caused due to the Embraer deal, the Defence Ministry has now asked for a CBI probe into the allegations. Brazilian aviation company, Embraer was accused of hiring a UK-based agent to flow kickbacks to land the $208 million deal for three Emb-145 aircrafts. Defence Minister Manohar[Read More…]
India rejected United Nations Human Rights Council’s demand to visit the troubled valley of Kashmir on Wednesday. This move comes as a blow to India’s diplomatic counter-maneuvering, and marks a success for Pakistan’s efforts to “internationalising” the Kashmir conflict. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said he was awaiting[Read More…]
Bihar’s don-turned-politician Mohammad Shahabuddin was seen in the company of Mohammad Kaif, an alleged sharp shooter who has been named in the murder of Journalist Rajdeo Ranjan. While he was giving his assessment of chief minister Nitish Kumar’s government after stepping out of prison, Kaif was spotted by his side.[Read More…]
Mamata Banerjee government in Bengal has extended a cordial hand to Tata Group post Singur verdict. After spearheading the campaign that led to Tata being ousted, she has put forward a proposal offering land for an industrial hub to the company. State finance minister Amit Mitra said, “We have a[Read More…]
The feud between Yadav family is out in open, late Tuesday evening Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav stripped his uncle and powerful cabinet minister Shivpal Yadav of all important portfolios. Handing him the social welfare department, he also put Shivpal in direct confrontation with his father and Samajwadi Party[Read More…]
Bengal has reported the highest number of dengue deaths- 24 so far this year against 14 in 2015. As many as 5,639 cases have been reported as yet against 8,156 last year. Officials say this figure is bound to increase as at least six more weeks of ‘dengue season’ remain.[Read More…]
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) Muslim unit Muslim Rashtriya Manch in Lucknow has decided to celebrate the Bakri Eid festival by cutting a cake baked in the shape of a goat, instead of sacrificing a goat or any other animal. The decision may sound funny but a 5-kg cake has already[Read More…]
A man was killed and several people were injured in firing as protesters clashed with security forces on Tuesday morning in Bandipore, less than 70 km from Jammu and Kashmir capital Srinagar. The death toll in violent clashes in the state since July has now reached 80. With complete curfew[Read More…]
Weeks after Arunachal governor JP Rajkhowa was asked to resign oh ‘health grounds’ by the Central government, President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday dismissed him from his post. Read: Arunachal governor asked to resign, says he is “clueless” A communiqué from Rashtrapathi Bhavan said Mr. Rajkhowa “shall cease to hold office”[Read More…]
During his teaching days at IIT, Alok Sagar taught many students, including Raghuram Rajan and prepared them for challenges that lay ahead. But the most important lesson that he has imparted is his life and his service to the downtrodden. For the past 32 years, this former IIT-D professor has[Read More…]
Indian origin American professor of media arts and sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Ramesh Raskar has been awarded the 2016 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize. Raskar is the co-inventor of radical imaging solutions including femtophotography, an ultra-fast imaging system that can see around corners and a camera that allows users to[Read More…]
Following the tense law and order situation in the state, the Jammu and Kashmir government has ordered shutdown of internet services of all telecom networks and also mobile communications as a precautionary measure. The state government took a review of the of the prevailing law and order situation in the[Read More…]
The Cauvery water dispute that has escalated tensions in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka seems to have reached its peak as Section 144 was imposed across Bengaluru. Sporadic incidents of attacks on a hotel, stone pelting, ruckus at a bank and attacks on vehicles were reported in both the States. The[Read More…]
A study has found that only half of the railways’ 541 water chlorination plants in the northern zone – comprising New Delhi, Punjab, parts of Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh are working. The railways has admitted that drinking water supplied by it on platforms is contaminated with[Read More…]
Tension prevailed in the neighboring states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka post the Supreme Court’s Cauvery verdict. Recent unprecedented attacks in the capital cities of both the states highlight the fragile relationship shared by them. Even as the court modified it’s earlier verdict and ruled that Karnataka should release less[Read More…]
In an equally shocking and bizarre incident, a 21-year-old youth died of an electric shock after he spit on a high tension wire, police said on Monday. “The incident took place on Sunday when Mohammed Yasin had gone to see his brother. He was chewing gutka and received shock from[Read More…]
