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New Delhi: A group of 94 former civil servants have released a statement expressing concerns over the Narendra Modi government’s changes to the All India Service Rules. These rules, the statement says, will make it impossible for public servants to express their opinions on matters of national importance. If they do not comply, their pensions may […]
New Delhi: A task force formed by the Gambian president Adama Barrow has recommended that the country sue the Indian government in the case where contaminated syrups caused acute kidney injury among children and led to the death of 70 of them in the country last year. Most of them were younger than two years old. The task […]
New Delhi: Days after a video showing harrowing abused faced by two Kuki women who were paraded naked and sexually assaulted by a Meitei crowd in Manipur came to light, Mizoram’s Meitei population has been attempting to leave the state in panic. The panic, reported Indian Express, began after the Peace Accord MNF Returnees’ Association (PAMRA) — an association of […]
New Delhi: A horrifying video of her sexual assault by a mob of men belonging to Manipur’s Meitei community has gone viral two days ago. She is aware of its impact in faraway mainland India – national outrage, and the prime minister finally breaking his silence on the violence that has been going on in her […]
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs has informed parliament that Rs 254.87 crore has been spent on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s overseas trips in the last five years. In response to a written question in the Rajya Sabha by Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh, minister of state for external affairs V. Muraleedharan said on […]
New Delhi/Imphal: Both the women in the video showing two women from Manipur’s Kuki community being paraded naked and sexually assaulted – the subsequent FIR says one of them was gang-raped – have told The Wire that Manipur Police had been present at the scene of the crime but did not help them. The harrowing incident took place on May 4 […]
If Novak Djokovic, the greatest grass-court player ever, can be defeated, then Narendra Modi, too, can be vanquished in next year’s court of the people. And, though the opposition political landscape remains extremely untidy, it still has a Carlos Alcaraz up its sleeve. His name is Mallikarjun Kharge. If the opposition leaders play the game […]
New Delhi: A recent survey report suggests that nearly two out of three people in Gujarat are reluctant to express their political and social opinion online. This fear, the survey report prepared by NGO Common Cause and Lokniti, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) suggests, is out of fear of legal action. According to […]
New Delhi: Mizoram Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) vice-president, R. Vanramchhuanga, has tendered his resignation, accusing Union and Manipur governments of supporting the burning down of churches in Manipur. According to Vanramchhuanga, a total of 357 churches, pastors’ quarters, and office buildings of different churches have so far been “burned into ashes by Meitei militants”. “To protest […]
New Delhi: The eighth cheetah has died at Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh. The cheetah, named Suraj, was found dead by a patrolling team in the Park early in the morning of July 14, reported Times of India. The cause of death will be known only after the post-mortem is conducted, the report said. More details are awaited. Officials […]
It has been over two months since violence involving the Meitei and Kuki communities in Manipur began. The violence erupted after the Manipur high court requested the state government to consider granting Scheduled Tribe status to the Meiteis, the majority community in the state. According to official data, over 70,000 people have been displaced, with […]
New Delhi: A single-judge bench of the Karnataka high court said that it does not behove schools to teach children to criticise government policies or insult constitutional functionaries for taking particular policy decisions. The single-judge bench of Justice Hemant Chandangoudar passed an order on June 14 quashing the sedition proceedings against four persons who are part of the […]
Kochi: The Cheetah Steering Committee met with officials of the Madhya Pradesh forest department on July 5 to discuss the status of Project Cheetah. The discussions also involved the Uttar Pradesh forest department, which has been roped in to tackle the situations on the ground, including conducting awareness programmes for locals, since the cheetahs could also […]
New Delhi: With eyes set on the upcoming Assembly elections in the four key states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Telangana, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national leadership appointed Union ministers and senior party leaders as in-charges for each of the states on Friday, July 7. Union minister Prahlad Joshi has been appointed as the […]
New Delhi: Ajit Pawar, who leads the breakaway faction of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), has reminded his uncle and NCP chief, Sharad Pawar, that he is 83 years of age and must allow him to be his successor to lead the party. He also said he wants to become the chief minister of Maharashtra someday, […]
New Delhi: The Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena on Tuesday, July 4, moved the Supreme Court seeking the issual of a direction to the Maharashtra assembly speaker to “expeditiously decide” on the disqualification pleas that have been pending for more than a year against rebel MLAs led by Eknath Shinde. The disqualification petitions were […]
New Delhi: Elon Musk has tweeted about drastically limiting the number of tweets people can read. This update comes as Platformer reports that Twitter has refused to pay its Google Cloud bills, leading to questions on how its trust and safety teams could be compromised. Musk, who is the CTO and owner of Twitter, said on Saturday that the […]
New Delhi: A 55-year-old truck driver was lynched in Bihar’s Saran district on the suspicions that his freight of cattle bones, used as raw material for making capsules for medicines, was beef because Id ul Zoha was hours away. The deceased was identified as Muhammad Zahiruddin, who was a resident of Majhwalia village in the same district. […]
It’s been a week of celebration and triumph by the national gush media here over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s extravagant spectacle of his first state visit to the US. This, irrespective of the fact that the US mainstream media, from major television news networks from CNN, and ABC, to newspapers like the Washington Post, the New York […]
New Delhi: After enduring 960 days of incarceration, activist-scholar Atiqur Rahman said that he was targeted for being a Muslim and that his continued imprisonment convinced him that “there is nothing called democracy left in India”. On October 5, 2020, Rahman was arrested along with journalist Siddique Kappan and two others, Masood Ahmad and Mohammed Alam, while on their way […]
