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India’s largest renewable energy company, will sign a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) under the Letter of Intent (LOI), for supply of 5 GW (5000 MW) solar power from the world’s largest renewable energy park being developed at Khavda in Kutch District of Gujarat, to Maharashtra state, […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said he would resign after two days and would demand early polls in Delhi as he vowed not to sit in CM’s chair till people give him a “certificate of honesty”. Kejriwal, who was released on bail from Tihar on Friday in the excise policy corruption case, said, […]
Kirit Somaiya of Maharashtra BJP, who has often hogged the limelight for his apparent crusade against corruption, has taken a muted stance off late following a spate of graft charges against his own party leaders and subsequent lack of backing from the party he needed to continue his crusade. A raft of Maharashtra leader like […]
While convicting 16 persons in a mass conversion case and 12 of them in prison, a local court in Uttar Pradesh referred to the atrocities suffered by Hindus during the recent political upheaval in Bangladesh and observed that this was an example of the consequences of “demographic imbalance” in the country due to fundamentalist Islam. […]
Although the Gautam Buddha Nagar DM’s comment did not name anyone, it is well understood that it refers to Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the Opposition, as over the years the Bharatiya Janata Party-led ecosystem have tried to politically infantilise him with the use of such terms. According to ‘The Wire’, Shrinate’s post had criticised […]
Even as the debate on the ambit of ‘terrorist act’ rages on, JNU former student Umar Khalid entered his fifth year in jail this week on terror charges. “A veteran of sedition, the investigation of this case has established how far accused Umar Khalid has travelled from 2016…,” the 40-page chargesheet of Delhi Police says […]
Eight persons were arrested in Ayodhya on the charge of alleged gang-rape of a 20-year-old college student, who is also a cleaning staff at the Ram Janmabhoomi temple. The victim has said in her complaint with the police that Vansh Chaudhary, a resident of Sahadatganj in Ayodhya district, had promised her that he would take […]
India wrestler Vinesh Phogat, who was disqualified from competing in the 53 kg freestyle wrestling final at the Paris 2024 Olympics due to a failed weigh-in, has accused the Indian Olympic Association President PT Usha for not providing enough support during her tragic journey at the Olympics. Phogat voiced her frustration over the perceived lack […]
West Bengal is in the news all over for the heart-wrenching RG Kar rape and murder incident. But in another shocker related to law and order, the state has one of the lowest participation of women workforce in state police. Ironically, the state’s Mamata Banerjee government last week outlined plans to establish Aparajita special task […]
With the Centre planning big to develop India’s blue economy by positioning the country as a shipbuilding hub, a new policy is likely to come up in 2026 after the Ship Building Financial Assistance Policy (SBFAP) lapses that year. The SBFAP, which lapses in 2026, is expected to be replaced by SBFAP 2.0 after 2026, […]
A man who recently returned from a country experiencing Mpox transmission has been isolated in a Delhi hospital and his samples are being tested to confirm the infection. The Centre has said that there is no cause for alarm. “The case is being managed in line with established protocols, and contact tracing is ongoing to […]
The government has ordered the immediate sacking of former trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar, for misusing OBC and disability quota benefits in the civil service exams. As per the official order, Khedkar was discharged under Rule 12 of IAS (Probation) Rules, 1954. This rule provides for discharge on the grounds of a probationer having been […]
Highlighting an appreciable decrease in terror-related and stone-pelting incidents in the past 10 years in Jammu and Kashmir, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has asserted that Article 370 and 35-A have become “history” and will never make a comeback. He urged the people of Jammu and Kashmir not to fall prey to the “sugar coated […]
Putting to rest all the trolls panning Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan’s granddaughter Navya Naveli Nanda for her admission to IIMA, a professor of the coveted institute has clarified that she got entry on merit, after duly clearing the cut-off for the same. Soon after Navya shared the happy news with a special post on Instagram […]
The Expert Committee of the National Medical Commission (NMC) has made suggestions in the medicine curriculum for undergraduate medical students, reintroducing several controversial topics. The updated curriculum reintroduces ‘sodomy and lesbianism’ as unnatural sexual offenses and brings back discussions on the importance of the hymen and the definition of virginity. This change reverses modifications made […]
The World Bank has raised its India’s growth forecast for the current financial year to 7 per cent, from an earlier estimate to 6.6 per cent. The World Bank in the India Development Update report said that the growth was boosted by public infrastructure investment and an upswing in household investments in real estate. The […]
The Ministry of Education (MoE) has raised concerns with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Rohtak flagging objections of its Internal Audit Wing (IAW) regarding a variable pay of Rs 3.2 crore paid by the institute to its director, Dheeraj Sharma, over three years—2018-19, 2019-20, and 2020-21. The objections come from the ministry’s internal audit […]
A thief was found unconscious in a corridor of a museum in Bhopal, along with his looted artefacts worth around Rs 15 crore. He was reportedly trying to flee with a bag containing the artefacts from the State Museum in the Madhya Pradesh capital. The museum was closed on Monday, and when employees opened it […]
Days after the horrifying death of 31-year-old trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, the West Bengal government on Tuesday passed the anti-rape bill in a special assembly session. The ‘Aparajita Woman and Child Bill (West Bengal Criminal Laws and Amendment) Bill 2024’ was introduced in the House by TMC leader […]
Unable to find jobs, 3.95 lakh people including 46,102 graduates and post graduates have applied for the job of sweepers in a state-run corporation Haryana Kaushal Rozgar Nigam (HKRN) established for providing contractual manpower. With hardly any other employment available, hundreds of thousands of young men and women desperate for work are applying for the […]
