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During Union Budget speech, Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced about rolling out new E-Passports. They will be infused with microchips soon in this financial year to make travelling abroad easy for Indian citizens. Many of us are now curious about this new E-Passport. Many of us will be curious to know – What is E-Passport? […]
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the Union Budget for Financial Year 2022-23 on February 1, 2023, in Parliament. During her Budget speech, she said that the PM Gati Shakti Master Plan will be driven by seven engines for growth and transportation. “PM Gati Shakti will encompass the seven engines for multi-modal connectivity for the […]
The air quality in Delhi remained in the “very poor” category for the second consecutive day on Tuesday even as the mercury was expected to drop to 7 degrees Celsius. The hourly Air Quality Index (AQI) was 340 at 7 am on Tuesday andwas 338 on Monday, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). […]
BSG Bhuj troops foiled an infiltration attempt from Pakistan’s side in the Lakhpatwari creek area. This happened when the BSF Bhuj Troops were on their regular patrolling on January 31, 2022, in the general area of Lakhpatwari creek and observed movement of some Pakistani fishing boats with 4-5 Pak fishermen. The lakhpatwari Creek is located […]
New Delhi: The Economic Survey 2021-22 lists various steps the Union government took last year to battle COVID-19. From vaccination to testing and infrastructure development, it enumerates various points. But the two waves of the pandemic that happened in India are summed up just in these lines: “During the first wave, the cumulative number of COVID-19 […]
Indian Coast Guard (ICG) will be celebrating its 46th Raising Day on February 01, 2022. The institute was raised with a beginning of just 07 surface platforms in 1978, ICG has grown into a formidable force with 158 ships and 70 aircraft in its inventory. ICG is aiming to achieve targeted force levels of 200 […]
Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) – a consortium of farmers’ organisations – observed ‘Day of Betrayal’ on January 31, with scores of farmers holding demonstrations in hundreds of districts and blocks across India. Gujarat Khedut Samaj held protests in Surat and submitted memorandum to the President of India through district government officials. The memorandum addressed to […]
New Delhi: The Kerala high court on Monday (January 31) deferred the order issued to Malayalam news channel MediaOne TV by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting revoking its license to broadcast till the next hearing date, LiveLaw reported. The news channel went off the air on Monday, reportedly because its license was revoked by […]
The budget session gets underway today after President Ram Nath Kovind addresses the members of parliament from both the lower and upper houses in the central hall at 11 PM. Proper arrangements of social distancing have been made given rising Covid cases. The Parliament will start half an hour after the president’s address. Union Finance […]
Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh election, PM Modi has finally entered the battlefield. PM Modi is going to hold a virtual rally on 31st January as the Election Commission Of India (ECI) has banned physical rallies due to Covid-19. The Prime Minister’s virtual rally in the poll-bound state will cover the districts of Shamli, Muzzafarnagar, […]
“No one can defeat Congress, only Congress can defeat itself” – said Navjot Singh Sidhu while responding to a question amidst the Assembly Election. In the three regions of Punjab- Majha, Doaba and Malwa- the party members are at a cutthroat competition, and in some cases, they are laying serious allegations upon each other internally. […]
Today marks the 74th death anniversary of the father of our nation – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi aka ‘Bapu’. And to remember and pay homage to the Gandhian ideologies, ANHAD (Act Now for Harmony and Democracy) – an Indian socio-cultural organization established in March 2003, organised an online event “Reimagining India – Gandhi Ke Kadmo Par”. […]
The court has observed that “No moral policing can be allowed in such matters where the two major persons are willing to stay together whether by way of marriage or in a live-in relationship.“Moral police is an umbrella category of vigilante groups that act to enforce a code of morality in India. The Hindu woman, […]
January 30th commemorates Mahatma Gandhi’s death anniversary. Celebrated as Martyrs’ Day in India, also known as Shaheed Diwas is a day when Gandhi was shot dead by Nathuram Godse in the Birla House. To pay homage to Gandhiji, the President and the Vice President, Prime Minister, Defense Minister and Three Service Chiefs, offered flower wreaths […]
Philanthropy, meaning altruistic giving for the love of mankind, is one of humanity’s nobler instincts. At the same time, it has ever been a way of legitimising and whitewashing ill-begotten wealth, and of acquiring a status and a place in history through the benefactions. Private philanthropy has never been bigger than at present (one estimate […]
Travellers going to Canada from India have a big relief now as the Canadian Government has decided to remove the India specific guidelines regarding Covid-19 testing. Earlier, it was a mandate for people travelling to Canada to carry a negative Covid-19 certificate from a single laboratory at the Delhi airport. This process took 8-9 hours. […]
An Indian man, who was separated from his family after a partition, was granted a visa by Pakistan’s High Commission. Sika Khan’s brother, Muhammed Siddique, was separated during the partition of Punjab in 1947 – when a portion of Punjab was given to Pakistan. Sika Khan stayed in India’s Punjab, but his brother moved to […]
A “potli” (bundle) of grains encased in red cloth in hand, Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Akhilesh Yadav repeated the vows he had first taken in Lucknow on January 17, in the presence of a farmer Tejinder Singh Birk, who was among those wounded in October when an SUV, driven by Ashish Mishra, the son of […]
Tamil Nadu ’s Additional Chief Secretary Jagmohan Singh Raju’s voluntary retirement from service was accepted Thursday. Hours later, he was fielded as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate in Punjab. In Punjab, Legislative Assembly elections will be held on February 20 to elect 117 members. Results will be declared on March 10. In his resignation […]
Former Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa’s granddaughter Dr Soundarya has allegedly died by suicide in an apartment in Bengaluru on Friday morning, High Grounds police confirmed. She was 33 and possibly suffering from postpartum depression. Soundarya’s body has been shifted to Bowring hospital in the city for postmortem to ascertain the cause of death, police […]
