India

Top Experts Brainstorm On Early Childhood Care And Education At Reliance Foundation Conference

April 17, 2024 18:54

A landmark gathering of public and private practitioners spanning the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) spectrum, convened to share insights and experience play-based learning at Reliance Foundation’s Building Flourishing Futures conference. Held at the Dhirubhai Ambani International School (DAIS) in Mumbai, the conference brought together diverse practitioners from the ECCE system, academics and experts […]

Indian Gets US Permanent Residency After Nine-Year Wait, Twitterati Cheer Him Up For Being Lucky

April 17, 2024 17:49

An Indian-origin Google employee got a permanent residency in the US after a long nine-year wait.“After 3505 days in this country, I’m finally a ‘permanent resident’. I can travel without constantly having to worry about my visa stamp or my I-94 date or a million other things,” the X user wrote in a now-deleted post.In […]

Sunita Kejriwal To Take Centrestage In AAP’s Poll Campaigns

April 17, 2024 15:11

Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita Kejriwal is soon set to take the centrestage of the party’s political future, at least so long as her husband is in jail.Following the party chief’s arrest on March 21, Sunita Kejriwal was given her first “political responsibility” as a “star campaigner” for AAP in […]

UPSC Topper Quit Lucrative Job To Study For Civil Services

April 17, 2024 12:44

Aditya Srivastava, 2023’s topper in the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Civil Services mains exam was working in Goldman Sachs in Bengaluru. He quit the high-paying job to pursue a career in the civil services. He is an electrical engineering graduate from IIT Kanpur. In 2019, Srivastava began his professional journey with Goldman Sachs, one […]

Cyber Frauds Use IPS Officer’s Identity For Extortion

April 17, 2024 12:17

Cyber frauds have taken hold of an IPS officer’s identity to leverage his name and image and intimidate people by threatening to embroil them in fictitious legal cases.Manish Shankar Sharma, an IPS officer of the MP cadre, has been honoured with a day named after him in San Diego in the US. Sharma is an […]

Delhi Airport Among Top 10 Busiest Airports In World

April 17, 2024 09:18

Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport was ranked 10th globally in 2023 serving over 72.2 million passengers, a steady year-on-year growth of 20.36%. The ranking was by the Airports Council International (ACI) World, an international organisation that evaluates airport standards. Delhi airport’s position signifies its status as a prominent international hub and its significant contribution to […]

Ramdev Apologises Before Supreme Court With Folded Hands In Misleading Advertisement Case

April 16, 2024 18:29

Co-founder of Patanjali Ayurved Ltd Baba Ramdev and Managing Director Acharya Balkrishna appeared in person and tendered an “unqualified and unconditional apology” before the Supreme Court for promoting misleading advertisements.The court was hearing a contempt of court case against the company and the duo in a matter about deceptive advertisements and making statements against allopathic […]

SC Not In Favour Of Going Back To Ballot Voting; Seeks Solutions To Check Possible EVM Tampering

April 16, 2024 17:53

Hearing petitions seeking cross-verification of votes cast on Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) with paper slips generated through the VVPAT system, the Supreme Court pointed to problems with the secret ballot voting method.“We are in our 60s. We all know what happened when there were ballot papers, you may have, but we have not forgotten,” Justice […]

Two Accused Of Firing Outside Salman Khan’s House In 10-Day Police Custody

April 16, 2024 17:37

A Mumbai court ordered 10-day police custody for two men accused of opening fire near Bollywood actor Salman Khan’s residence.The accused were arrested earlier in the day on Tuesday and produced before the Esplanade Court in Mumbai.The prosecution presented evidence to the court, alleging that the two were involved in the firing, conducting a recce […]

Cap On Green Card Prolongs Wait Time For US-Bound Indians

April 16, 2024 12:03

Due to a cap on the number of green cards given to people from a specific country and a low annual quota, more than a million Indians are presently stuck in a long queue for green cards, according to US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) data.The data shows that many highly skilled professionals from India, […]

Inflation Rate Rises Marginally In March

April 15, 2024 15:35

Wholesale inflation in the country rose marginally to 0.53% in March compared to 0.20% in the preceding month due to increase in prices of vegetables, potato, onion and crude oil. The Wholesale Price Index (WPI)-based inflation was in the negative zone from April to October and had turned positive in November at 0.26%. The inflation […]

SC Refuses Early Hearing, Kejriwal To Remain In Jail

April 15, 2024 15:19

Minutes after the Supreme Court refused an early hearing of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s plea challenging his arrest, the Delhi Rouse Avenue court on Monday sent him to judicial custody till April 23. Kejriwal had moved the top court on April 10 challenging a Delhi High Court judgment that dismissed his plea on April […]

Both TMC And BJP Feel Heat Of Cong-Left Alliance In Bengal

April 15, 2024 14:44

In a gesture of benevolence on Eid in Bengal’s Raiganj, a TMC functionary retired teacher Rafique Alam took many by surprise by donating money to the joint candidate of the Congress and Left Front, Imran Ali Ramz aka Victor. Giving a donation to the candidate of a rival party is beyond any political custom, particularly […]

Former Judges Write To CJI Flagging ‘Attempts To Undermine Judiciary’

April 15, 2024 13:01

Several high court and supreme court judges have written a letter addressed to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) flagging the ‘escalating attempts by certain factions to undermine the judiciary through calculated pressure, misinformation, and public disparagement.’“It has come to our notice that these elements, motivated by narrow political interests and personal gains, are striving […]

Blinded By Tesla Glamour, Is India Overlooking Red Flags In Welcoming Musk?

April 15, 2024 12:24

Under pressure in China where local players have outsmarted him, facing tech disruptions in the industry, and a general demand slowdown in its key markets, for Tesla’s Elon Musk, the India story is as important as the EV story is for India.New Delhi hopes the entry of the marquee EV flagbearer, just like it was […]

BJP Manifesto Builds Upon Aspirational India, Plays Up ‘Modi’s Vision’ Of Development

April 15, 2024 11:52

Away from the spite and vituperative of PM Modi that mark his election rallies, the BJP’s poll manifesto, released on Sunday, mounts the development plank as the only deliverable and Narendra Modi as the best “man who delivers”.Betting big on Modi’s credibility, while dodging the temptation to match promises made by its opponents, the ‘Sankalp […]

BJP Releases List Of Star Campaigners For LS, Gujarat Polls

April 14, 2024 13:04

The Lok Sabha Elections 2024 are round the corner and in less than a week, the first phase of voting will begin. Ahead of the upcoming polls, the political leaders of different parties have been campaigning for the upcoming elections and have been releasing their lists of candidates for different constituencies alongside. In a latest […]

YouTuber Couple Jumps Off Building To Death In Haryana

April 14, 2024 12:47

A live-in couple allegedly died by suicide jumping from the seventh floor of a high-rise apartment in Haryana’s Bahadurgarh, about 20 kilometres from New Delhi. The couple has been identified as Garvit Singh, 25, and Nandini Kashyap, 22. Both were content creators, running their own channel and creating short films for platforms like YouTube and […]

Bike-Borne Men Fire Outside House Of Salman Khan; Police On Alert

April 14, 2024 12:05

Firing was reported outside the house of Salman Khan’s posh Galaxy Apartments in Bandra (Mumbai) in the wee hours of Sunday. Two unidentified bike-borne men reportedly fired in the air outside the actor’s house, though nobody was injured in the incident. The incident occurred around 4:51 am when two men fired three rounds and another […]

Pharma Giants Seek Govt’s Clarity On New Code Barring Docs From Attending Overseas Meets

April 13, 2024 12:19

Following the implementation of the Uniform Code for Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices (UCPMP) 2024 by the Centre, foreign drugmakers have asked the government to clarify more specifically if doctors can attend medical conferences outside India on the invitation of companies headquartered abroad. The new UCPMP, which replaced the earlier 2015 code, seeks to draw a line […]

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