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In August 2019, a devastating landslide in Puthumala village in Kerala’s Wayanad district killed 17 people. The disaster destroyed homes, places of worship and shops, leaving Puthumala a barren valley overgrown with weeds. Now, just a few hills away, the tragedy has struck again. On July 30, 2024, a landslide hit Choorlamalla and the nearby […]
Adani Group-owned Ambuja Cements Limited, part of the diversified Adani Portfolio has announced its first venture in Bihar, marking the largest investment in the state by a cement industry player. The Warisaliganj Cement grinding unit, a standalone facility with an overall capacity of 6 MTPA, will be established at an investment of nearly ₹ 1600 […]
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the validity of the NEET-UG 2024 examination despite concerns over paper leaks, asserting there was no systemic breach of its integrity. However, it raised serious concerns in the conduct of the exam this year by the National Testing Agency (NTA) — specifically pointing to the use of e-rickshaws for […]
Captain Subhanshu Shukla will most likely become the second Indian in space after 40 years. Only one Indian has ever been in space till now-Rakesh Sharma- who was wing commander when he flew on a Soviet spacecraft in 1984. ISRO on Friday said that it had selected Shukla, 39, and Group Captain Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair, […]
As the Adani Energy Solutions’ $1-billion qualified institutional placement (QIP) was oversubscribed six times, garnering a demand of more than Rs 50,000 crore, billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller’s family office-led investment firms have made their maiden bet on the Adani Group’s power transmission business. The billionaire’s firms seek shares of Adani Energy Solutions in the institutional sale, […]
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 […]
