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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public address from the Red Fort was his eleventh on a trot as prime minister, but the first he delivered as the head of a coalition government with the BJP no longer commanding a parliamentary majority, as was the case on previous occasions. But there was little variation in his tone […]
The term of Maharashtra assembly ends in November this year and parties are gearing up for the next election. Maharashtra will witness a tussle over three Ts — Thackeray, treachery and tolerance, making it the most exciting election this century. T election marks the first time in the past decade that the dominance of the […]
Opposition Nationalist Congress Party (SP) leader and Lok Sabha MP Supriya Sule claimed on Monday that her husband Sadanand Sule received an income tax notice following her speech in the Lok Sabha on the budget. Speaking at a press conference in Mumbai, Sule said, “It seems to have become a routine. Whenever I speak against the […]
A man was arrested on Sunday after a video showing him cooking and consuming ‘peacock curry’ surfaced on social media, sparking widespread outrage in Telangana’s Sircilla district. The video sparked outrage from people who accused the YouTuber, Kodam Pranay Kumar, of promoting illegal wildlife consumption. The peacock is India’s national bird. The video was taken […]
Seven pilgrims died, and nine others were injured in a stampede at Baba Siddhanth Temple in Jehanabad district of Bihar on Monday morning. The victims comprised five women and two men. The injured were rushed to the hospitals in Makhdumpur and Jehanabad for treatment. Alankrita Pandey, the District Magistrate of Jehanabad, said the situation is under […]
Supreme Court is not happy with high courts and lower courts nature of usually denying bail. Justice BR Gavai, in one week, has been part of three cases that show the state of institutional decay in the judiciary. In Tusharbhai R Shah v State of Gujarat, the Supreme Court noted the casual disdain with which the […]
The caste system is a ‘unifying factor’ of Indian society, which the Mughals couldn’t understand and the British saw as a roadblock to their invasion of the country, the latest issue of the RSS-affiliated weekly has said in an editorial. The defence of the caste system comes in the wake of a political row after BJP leader […]
The Bandra Kurla Complex in Mumbai saw the opening of two education institutions – The Nita Mukesh Ambani Junior School (NMAJS) and the Nita Mukesh Ambani Junior School Early Years Campus (NMAJS EYC) – ushering in the beginning of an innovative and futuristic educational experience in the city. Spread over 3 lakh square feet of […]
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a Mumbai college’s decision banning ‘hijab, burqa, cap and naqab’ on the campus and said girl students must have the freedom to choose what they wear. Terming the restrictions imposed by the college authorities as unwarranted, a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Sanjay Kumar asked the Chembur Trombay […]
The Supreme Court held a Gujarat judicial officer and a cop guilty of contempt for arresting a person and remanding him to police custody in gross violation of top court’s December 2023 order granting him anticipatory bail. A bench headed by justice BR Gavai held the investigating officer in the case RY Raval of Vesu […]
Of the 53 confirmed cases of Chandipura virus reported in India, as on July 31, 51 are from Gujarat and two from Rajasthan, Union Health Minister JP Nadda told the Rajya Sabha. Of these 53 cases of Chandipura virus, 19 people have died and all deaths have been reported from Gujarat, Nadda said in a […]
Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud on Tuesday expressed displeasure at a counsel who was persistent in requesting an early hearing. He said that he was ready to offer his seat to those who want to know how much pressure judges go through every day. His remark came in response to a counsel’s request […]
The Finance Ministry’s law enforcement agency, Directorate General of Goods and Services Tax Intelligence (DGGI) has sent show cause notices to 10 foreign airlines over alleged non-payment of taxes amounting to ₹10,000 crore. Emirates, Lufthansa, British Airways, Singapore Airlines, and Oman Air are a few of the prominent members on the notice list. The notices […]
Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday announced Rs 18,000 crore expenditure on setting up 100 export-oriented horticulture clusters in the next five years to boost farm income as he presented the Modi government’s near-term roadmap for the farm sector. While admitting that there are shortcomings and more needs to be done for the […]
Barely 24 hours before Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was compelled to flee Dhaka, India’s home minister was making a statement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s inescapable durability beyond 2029. Just as Sheikh Hasina had come to entertain notions of indispensability, the prime minister’s right-hand man appears to have convinced himself – and probably his […]
At least nine children were killed and several others injured on Sunday after a wall collapsed during a Hindu religious event in Shahpur village of Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district, about 205 km northeast of Bhopal . The wall of dilapidated house collapsed on the victims due to heavy rain. District Collector Deepak Arya said nine […]
A World Bank report stated that India is among over 100 countries that will face “serious obstacles” in the next few decades to become high-income countries. The report also stated that India could take as many as 75 years to attain one-quarter of the United States income per capita. On the other hand, China will […]
Talk to anyone on the streets of Jammu or Kashmir about elections and, despite their lack on unanimity on most issues, both regions want early elections and restoration of “full” statehood. The criticism of the manner in which the Ministry of Home Affairs recently decided to grant near-absolute powers to the Lieutenant Governor (LG), which […]
Bhubaneswar police has arrested a 34-year-old man for duping 50 women of lakhs of rupees posing himself as a police officer. For over two years, Satyajit Managobind Samal would allegedly find and chat with women on matrimonial sites and apps, coax them into relationships and then swindle them out of lakhs of rupees. He was […]
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 […]
