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New Delhi: In a recent assault on press freedom, the YouTube channel of ‘Bolta Hindustan’, a Hindi news platform which had close to 3 lakh subscribers was suspended. On April 4, the Bolta Hindustan team got an email from YouTube in which it was stated that the video streaming platform had received a notice from the Ministry of […]
Well into the liberalised economic order, matrimonial advertisements in north Indian newspapers had parents of eligible men seeking brides who were fair, accomplished, homely and ‘convent educated’. The last qualification was an omnibus one, ensuring that the young woman was not only presentable and spoke English as it ought to be spoken with a neutral […]
Canada has announced a comprehensive plan to regulate the issuance of study permits to international students over the next two years. The country aims to reduce the number of new international student permits, setting a target of 485,000 approved study permits for 2024. Immigration Minister Marc Miller, in a recent statement, shared the finalized provincial […]
Denying that slapping a student by the teacher was abetment to suicide, Gujarat High Court quashed criminal charges against the trustee of Surat’s Samarpan School and a teacher of the school accused of slapping and humiliating an 18-year-old student, allegedly driving him to suicide. Justice Divyesh Joshi found that there was no material on record […]
Less than a month after several foreign students were injured in a clash with a local mob of intruders over namaz offering on Gujarat University campus in Ahmedabad, four overseas students have been asked to vacate the hostel this week. Officials said the visa of these students had expired.The number of international students asked to […]
Known for courting controversies with her odd statements, actor Kangana Ranaut, BJP’s candidate from Mandi for the LS polls, is on the party radar and efforts are on to keep her under check till the elections are over.From strict instructions asking her to stick to one-line statements and focus instead on issues like the work […]
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has issued instructions to its affiliated schools regarding the national framework prepared under the new education policy. Under the new rules, students of Class 9 and 10 will study two Indian languages along with one foreign language and students of Class 11 and12 will study two Indian languages.In […]
Members of the Kshatriya community stirred controversy by threatening to perform ‘jauhar’ (self-immolation) outside the BJP headquarters in Gandhinagar, demanding the withdrawal of Parshottam Rupala’s candidature over alleged anti-Rajput remarks. Police detained five women along with Shree Rashtriya Karni Sena president Mahipal Singh Makrana before they could carry out their plans.Simultaneously, protests erupted in various […]
Youngsters performing daredevil stunts on Ahmedabad city roads have become a headache for Ahmedabad police. Heart-pounding stunts have seen a significant surge in the first quarter of 2024. Now the police are mulling cancelling the driving licence of such violators.Last year, the RTO received a whopping 777 recommendations for licence suspension due to reckless driving […]
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has separated its newsroom in India, handing over its publishing license to a private limited company founded by Indian employees.This unprecedented move by the UK public service broadcaster is being related to the last year’s tax searches and FDI questions surrounding it.The new entity, called “Collective Newsroom,” is established by […]
Dozens of users on social media platform X expressed their frustration over the prolonged wait times for US visas and green cards following a 99-year-old Indian woman finally getting American citizenship after years of wait. “They say age is just a number. That seems true for this lively 99-year-old who became a #NewUSCitizen in our […]
Though India is one of the top five countries in the world from where students go overseas to pursue higher education, restrictive changes to immigration laws by certain countries may curtail such outflow and spell trouble for prospective students planning to go abroad.Some estimates suggest that by 2024, there may be 1.8 million Indian students […]
PM Narendra Modi in his latest salvo against the Congress said its poll manifesto (declared a day before), “has the stamp of the Muslim League” — the party blamed for the Partition — and “every page reeks of breaking India into pieces” (har panne par Bharat ke tukde karne ki boo aa rahi hai).He said: […]
Gujarat Police Recruitment Board is in the process of recruiting for Class 3 Cadre posts in the department. Interested and eligible candidates can apply by visiting the official website of the Board. This recruitment drive aims to fill a total of 12,472 posts. The registration process began on April 4 and will conclude on April […]
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat arrived in Vadodara on a three-day visit to Gujarat.Bhagwat is likely to tackle the reported internal frictions between factions of the BJP in the state ahead of the Lok Sabha elections as well as the ongoing Kshatriya agitation against Union Minister Parshottam Rupala. Rupala is BJP’s Lok Sabha […]
Authorities at Gujarat University (GU) have issued official notices to seven students from Afghanistan, instructing them to vacate their hostel rooms on the campus. Five of these students have already complied with the directive, officials confirmed.The move comes in the wake of a controversy that erupted about a month back involving Afghan students who engaged […]
The Cyber Crime Branch of Ahmedabad City has recently made a breakthrough by recovering 92 lost mobile phones and returning them to their rightful owners. PSI Ketul Modi of the Cyber Crime Branch revealed in a conversation with ‘Vibes of India’ that, “Over the past few years, numerous mobile phones have been reported lost or […]
The Ahmedabad city police have apprehended a 27-year-old man from Juhapura, Sohil Parvez Rashid Parvez Shaikh, who despite having only a 10th-grade education, was defrauding American citizens using his fluent English. Sohil ran a home-based call centre, operating between midnight and 5 am, where he communicated with approximately 30 Americans daily. He offered assistance and […]
Prohibitory orders, including internet curbs, have been imposed in Ladakh a day ahead of the planned border march being led by climate activist and education reformer Sonam Wangchuk to “highlight the ground realities in Ladakh”. Wangchuk, who is currently on a hunger fast in Leh, advised people in Ladakh to not carry out the march, and […]
Gujarat’s Kshatriya community members disrupted a public meeting of state BJP president C R Paatil in Khambhalia town, Devbhumi Dwarka district, on Saturday. The protesters demanded the withdrawal of Union Minister Parshottam Rupala’s candidature following his controversial remarks about Rajputs and princely families. Videos from the event showed protesters waving black flags and chanting slogans […]
