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Ahead of Assembly elections in four states this year, former Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has asked party leaders to not become “complacent” and “over-confident” despite the ‘mahaul’ (situation) being in their favour. We must sustain the momentum and goodwill that has been generated for us in the Lok Sabha elections. She told the party that a good […]
Due to weak investor response, the Ministry of Mines was forced to scrap the auction for the lithium block in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district for the second time. Nearly 18 months then Mines Secretary Vivek Bharadwaj had announced the discovery of an inferred deposit of 5.9 million tonnes of lithium ore, pitched as among […]
A 50-year-old American woman of Indian origin was found tied to a tree with iron chain in a forest in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg district on Saturday. Lalitya Kayi was discovered in Sonurli village by a shepherd who heard her cries and alerted the police. The police have recovered a photocopy of her US passport, an Aadhaar […]
Samajwadi Party MP Awadhesh Prasad has demanded an inquiry into “irregularities” in land deals executed in and around Ayodhya after the Supreme Court’s November 2019 decision permitting the construction of the Ram temple. The MP demanded that Parliament constitute a committee to investigate the alleged irregularities The Lok Sabha MP from Faizabad said that land […]
A day after the death of three young civil services job aspirants at a coaching centre in New Delhi, the police on Sunday arrested two people. Tanya Soni, 21, Shreya Yadav, 25, and Nevin Delvin, 29, drowned when the basement library of Rau’s IAS Study Circle coaching centre flooded following heavy localised rainfall. Abhishek Gupta, […]
Former Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Haribhau Kisanrao Bagde has been appointed Governor of Rajasthan while former Tripura Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varma has been appointed Governor of Telangana. President Droupadi Murmu has appointed new Governors in nine states and a new Lieutenant Governor in Puducherry. The President has appointed former Rajya Sabha MP Om Prakash […]
A month after the Lok Sabha election results, Vote For Democracy (VFD), a Maharashtra-based citizens’ platform, has come up with some sensational claims that may raise concerns about the conduct of the ECI. VFD, apart from pointing out some glaring loopholes in the election process, has made three significant assertions. One, it has claimed that […]
Madhya Pradesh is diverting a portion of funds meant for welfare of scheduled castes (SC) and scheduled tribes (ST) under a fully centrally funded sub-plan, for developing religious sites, museums and for funding cow welfare, this year. A state finance department official said that while this is exceptional, the fact is that people from SC […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Kyiv in the third week of August. This will be PM’s first visit to the war-torn country since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022. The visit, which is still in the works, is expected to take place most likely on August 22.. Earlier this year, Ukraine President […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday discussed the political situation of the state during his meeting with MPs of the NDA in Maharashtra. The meeting comes a day after Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar demanded nearly 90 seats for the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) during his meeting with Home Minister Amit Shah. During his […]
With the BJP’s lost glory of being single party majority being attributed partly to lack of jobs in the country, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her budget ensured a raft of incentives for industry, to ensure more people were employed and the widespread grudge of the country’s youth assuaged. Large-scale government welfare measures don’t make […]
In consonance with the directions of the Supreme Court, the National Testing Agency (NTA) is likely to release a revised merit list for the NEET UG 2024 exam within two days. The move will affect 44 exam toppers who may see their ranks slip by at least 88 positions, if not more. In the results […]
Presenting the Union budget on Tuesday, Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a slew of measures aimed at boosting the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector. One of the key changes was to increase the limit of MUDRA loans from Rs 10 lakh to Rs 20 lakh. This will be available for those entrepreneurs who […]
While Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman gave the miss to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) in her speech while presenting the Union Budget 2024 in parliament on Tuesday, the new Narendra Modi government has allocated Rs 86,000 crore to the scheme. This is the highest ever initial Budget Estimate allocation to […]
There are more signs of disaffection brewing within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh (UP), this time from the political bastion of chief minister Yogi Adityanath, Gorakhpur. In a matter of days, two ruling party MLAs from the district in eastern UP have alleged threats to their lives accusing the ruling administration and […]
Following strong criticism from industry stakeholders and tech executives, the Karnataka government has decided to put its Karnataka State Employment of Local Candidates in Industries, and Other Establishments Bill, 2024, on hold for now. The Bill was approved by the State Cabinet on 15 July, 2024, and was to be tabled for discussion in Assembly […]
The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) casts a “huge pall of uncertainty” when it comes to jobs, considering its impact on workers across all skill levels – low, semi and high, says the Economic Survey. The biggest disruption for the future of work is the accelerated growth in AI, which is poised to revolutionise the […]
As Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today presents the first Budget of the third successive government led by PM Narendra Modi, how a changed political mandate, with the BJP not getting absolute majority, affects India’s budget is possibly the biggest question waiting to be answered in the FM’s speech. A budget is essentially an exercise where […]
The Supreme Court on Monday put an interim stay on the enforcement of the order passed by Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand governments requiring eatery owners along the path of Kanwar Yatra to disclose the names of owners and the staff employed by them. The apex court said that the food sellers must not be forced […]
Civicus, a global civil society alliance, in its new report, has rated India’s civic space as repressed under the Modi government. Submitted to the UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) on the state of civic space in the country, the report says the use of sedition law against the Modi government’s critics continues. “Under the government […]
