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The Supreme Court on Monday quashed the Madras High Court’s decision to cancel bail granted to a YouTuber, ‘Sattai’ Durai Murugan, who was accused of making derogatory remarks against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin. “If before elections, we start putting behind bars everyone who makes allegations on YouTube, imagine how many will be jailed,” […]
Vistara on Sunday announced reducing 25-30 flights a day or 10 per cent of its operating capacity and most of the cancellations are in the domestic network. According to travel industry insiders, fares have surged by approximately 20-25 per cent across key routes such as Delhi-Goa, Delhi-Kochi, Delhi-Jammu and Delhi-Srinagar. Vistara faced significant disruptions last week with […]
India’s household debt levels are reckoned to have touched an all-time high of 40% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by December 2023, while net financial savings had likely dropped to their lowest level at around 5% of GDP, as per a research report from leading financial services firm Motilal Oswal. In September 2023, the Reserve […]
CEPT University Press today unveiled a new book titled ‘Planning for India’s Urbanisation’ authored by Vidyadhar K. Phatak, one of the country’s leading practitioners and thinkers in Urban Planning. The launch event saw participation from practising planners, students, faculty members, alumni and other members of the CEPT community. The book is a compilation of essays […]
Community welfare concerns is an issue that appears alien to Parul University. Headquartered in Vadodara, Gujarat, the University was recently pulled up by Gujarat High Court for admitting ineligible students. After admitting them at high fees, the University was exposed. The University refused to re-imburse the fees to the students following which they approached Gujarat […]
The government schools in India, though, are generally considered deplorable and the urban elite hardly think of putting their children in these schools, the story is a bit different in Ahmedabad. Call it the skyrocketing fees of private schools or the improvement in the standard of the city’s government schools striving for excellence, or a […]
In October 2023, electoral bonds worth over Rs 11 crore were purchased in the name of six members of a Dalit family from Anjar, a small uneventful city in Gujarat’s Kutch district. As per SBI data released by the Election Commission of India, of these, bonds worth Rs 10 crore were encashed by the Bharatiya […]
The New Zealand government announced on Sunday a series of changes to its employment visa program, citing concerns over “unsustainable” net migration. The modifications, which include the introduction of an English-language requirement and a reduction in the maximum continuous stay for various lower-skilled positions, are part of a broader effort to manage net migration more […]
Adani TotalEnergies E-Mobility Limited (ATEL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Adani Total Gas Limited (ATGL) and MG Motor India signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen the EV charging infrastructure in India. The joint collaboration to develop the charging solutions for electric vehicle (EV) and value-added services to MG’s EV customers nationwide will underpin […]
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 […]
