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On the occasion of 76th Independence Day, Prof. Anita Bose Pfaff, daughter of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose demanded the government to bring Netaji’s remains to India. Bose, leader of the Indian National Army, died in a plane crash in Taiwan on August 18, 1945. “Modern technology now offers the means for sophisticated DNA testing, provided […]
Delhi witnessed 51 deaths from Covid-19 at the end of the week of August 8-14, on Sunday. During the week of February 7–13, when there were 89 fatalities. It is the capital’s greatest weekly toll in six months, despite a third consecutive week of declines in cases statewide. The number of deaths from the virus […]
Ahmedabad police arrested four people for trafficking illegal drugs from Mumbai to Ahmedabad. The police were on the watch for the drug criminals and had set up a watch for them. The four individuals were caught with MD drugs worth Rs.29 lacs. Mephedrone, a psychoactive stimulant is commonly known as MD drug. The criminals were […]
Accused of posting obscene pictures of Hindu deities in April 2020, a 22-year-old student from Indorewas asked by a city sessions court to deposit Rs. 5 lacs before going to Canada for pursuing his studies. The court in fact has reduced the deposit amount to half, earlier sentenced by a magisterial court. The student, Himanshu […]
President of India Droupadi Murmu, while speaking to the nation during her maiden customary address as the President on the eve of independence day said that the world has seen a new India rising in recent years. Here are the top quotes: 1) The day of 14th August is being celebrated as Partition Horrors Remembrance […]
On the eve of India’s 75th Independence day, a Dalit boy is thrashed to death by his upper caste teacher in Congress-ruled Rajashthan’s Jalore. 75th Independence day celebrations have been termed the “Amrit Kal” celebrations by BJP Government at the Center. The incident took place at a private school in Surana village of Rajasthan’s Jalore […]
To say Rakesh Jhunjhunwala leaves a problematic legacy behind would be stating the obvious. One way to describe Rakesh may be the two parts that constitute him – persona and personality. A man who was defined by his ‘Midas’ like relationship with stock picking, but was also known for his crass comments tinged with sexism, disparaging commentary […]
The way Home Minister Amit Shah helped a journalist recently has become the talk of the town in New Delhi. And though the help was extended last year, it came to light this year only when the journalist went to Amitbhai’s house to tie rakhi. Shipra Das is a renowned photojournalist who has snapped several […]
Un ka jo farz hai wo ahl-e-siyasat jaanenmera paigham mohabbat hai jahan tak pahunche (Let politicians do what they think they must My message is that of love, let it reach where it can) Jigar Moradabadi On a muggy Friday afternoon three weeks ago, three men from Pune walked across the Wagah border into Lahore. […]
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) deputy governor Michael Patra has said that India can accelerate its path to becoming the world’s second-largest economy by 2031 by increasing GDP growth in terms of purchasing power parity to 11% over the next decade. He added that it would exceed the OECD’s projection, India will surpass the US […]
Not even a week after he launched his low-cost airline Akasa, India’s top-notch stock broker and investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala is dead. He was only 62. Breach Candy hospital CEO N V Santhanam confirmed to Vibes of India that Rakesh Jhunjhunwala was brought dead to the hospital at 6.45 am. He leaves behind his wife Rekha […]
Kolkata: Students from various departments of the faculty of arts and social sciences at St. Xavier’s University (SXU), Kolkata, wore black clothes and assembled at the main quadrangle on the university campus in New Town on Friday, August 12, and held a silent protest in solidarity with a former assistant professor of English who was allegedly […]
Sonia Gandhi, President of the Indian National Congress, has again tested COVID-19 positive. According to the official government policy, she’ll remain quarantined until she tests negative. Jairam Ramesh, a leader in Congress, provided this information.In the tweet, Jairam Ramesh penned, “Sonia Gandhi, the president of the Congress, had a positive Covid-19 test result today. As […]
Bihar’s chief minister Nitish Kumar has endorsed deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav’s ambitious promise of providing jobs in the state. In 2022 Bihar assembly elections, the Rashtriya Janata Dal leader had promised he will provide 10 lakh job opportunities to the youth, if his party comes to power. Post Nitish Kumar’s return to the grand […]
It is 2022 but not so in Gurgaon where a teen died by suicide after being bullied by his classmates for his sexual orientation. Over five months after a 16-year-old student of a private school in Faridabad committed suicide, police said two of his former schoolmates were apprehended on Tuesday and produced before the Juvenile […]
The University Grants Commission of India has suggested combining the JEE, NEET, and CUET admission exams, the three most well-known entrance exams, into a single exam. There are three main admission tests in India, the Joint Entrance Examination (Main) for engineering, the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test-Undergraduate for medicine, and the recently launched CUET-UG. About […]
In one of the unusual cases, a mother-in-law accused her daughter-in-law of domestic violence and filed a complaint against her. According to the complaint made by the mother-in-law under the Protection of Women from the Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (Domestic Violence Act), her daughter-in-law allegedly harassed her husband and son before ejecting them from their […]
Hailing Amit Shah a “backstage hero,” Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh, Wednesday, released Shabdansh in the capital. The book is a collection of the Home Minister’s landmark speeches on a range of issues – from politics and spirituality to nation-building and tough decisions. The title, edited by Shivanand Dwivedi and published by Rupa, will work as […]
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday, August 10, alleged that ration card holders were being forced to buy the national flag by shopkeepers and accused the BJP of selling “nationalism” and hurting the poor’s self-respect. The government, however, refuted the suggestion that the poor are being forced to buy the flag for ration on […]
The Wire In an interview with Karan Thapar, the historian also said that India’s middle class is letting down the country. She says it’s not sufficiently loyal to the idea of India. In an interview about how she views the last 75 years of India’s independence and what sort of country India has become, prominent […]
