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BJP ally, Apna Dal (S) on Sunday, announced Haidar Ali Khan as its candidate from Suar in western Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur. Despite no official announcement on the seat-sharing arrangement for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, the move is significant given that Khan is the first Muslim candidate to be fielded by the alliance since 2014. […]
Even after consecutive actions, humiliation, deportation and to cost the very lives which they want to give label as American Dream, more and more Gujaratis are falling to dangerous practises of reaching the country for that elusive American dream. One family from this non-descript village has already frozen to death on the US Canada border. […]
The gruesome death of four members of a Gujarati family trying to illegally cross over to the US through Canada’s -35 degree freezing temperatures has come as a rude reminder of a sordid international human smuggling racket that took shape in villages of North and Central Gujarat. A source close to the deceased Gujarati family […]
The upcoming Republic Day will see the grandest fly past and according to recent inputs, an elaborate laser show will also be part of the festivities along with the Indian Army troops seen marching in different uniforms. The vivid uniforms worn by the Army will date from 1950 to present day during the Republic Day […]
According to the Genomic Sequencing Consortium bulletin publishedJanuary 10 and uploaded Sunday, the heavily mutated Omicron variant isnow in community transmission stage in the country. It states that whilemost Omicron cases have been asymptomatic or mild, hospitalisationsand ICU admissions are increasing in the country. Hence, the threat levelremains unchanged. The statement from Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics […]
Former Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was honoured with Netaji Award 2022 by Netaji Research Bureau on Subhash Chandra Bose’s 125th birth anniversary, January 23. Consul General of Japan in Kolkata Nakamura Yutaka received the award on behalf of Abe at a function in Elgin Road residence of Netaji. The programme was addressed by the […]
Abide With Me has been played every year since 1950 at the annual Beating Retreat ceremony at Vijay Chowk on the evening of January 29, marking the end of the nearly weeklong Republic Day celebrations. This year, however, the official list of 26 tunes to be played at the ceremony, released Saturday, does not mention […]
A massive dust storm is about to cross Gujarat and southern Rajasthan after affecting life in Karachi, Pakistan and is likely to continue for the next 12 hours – the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said. Delhi is not likely to be affected in the coming days, he added. A precaution was taken in Karachi on […]
January 23 is Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s birth anniversary. Each year, on the day, the central government honours the contribution and service of people and organisations in India in the field of disaster management. In 2021, the government declared Parakram Diwas will be marked to coincide with the birth anniversary of the revolutionary leader. The […]
Forty-eight hours after Thursday’s recovery of frozen bodies of four Gujaratis, including an infant, killed in a strong blizzard when temperatures hovered around -40 degrees C on the US-Canada border, the Ahmedabad Crime Branch has begun investigations into what has emerged as a huge human smuggling racket. Law enforcement agencies on the US-Canada border had […]
On January 12, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) in a letter to the chief secretaries of all state governments, set out a ‘Proposal for Amendments in IAS (Cadre) Rules, 1954’, saying that an officer whom the Union government wishes to put on deputation would “stand relieved” from his or her respective cadre, irrespective […]
Private data related to Covid of more than 20 thousand Indians have gone missing from the government server. Allegedly, details including names, ages, mobile numbers, addresses and results of the Covid test have been leaked. The leaked data has been put up for sale on the Red Forum’s website, where a cybercriminal claims to have […]
The Government of India has classified Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh Union Territories as “hard areas” in joint AGMUT cadre. According to guidelines governing transfer and postings of AGMUT cadre IAS, IPS and IFS officers, the states and UTs are classified into two categories- regular areas and hard areas. As per categorization done by the […]
Delhi High Court continued hearing a bunch of petitions challenging the exception to Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code on Thursday, which exempts forceful intercourse by a man with his own wife from the grave offence of rape. A division bench of Justice Rajiv Shakdher and Justice C Hari Shankar was hearing the matter. […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on January 21 that a statue of him will be installed at the India Gate to mark Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s 125th birth anniversary. “At a time when the entire nation is marking the 125th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, I am glad to share that his grand […]
The Centre’s proposed changes in rules that give it over-reaching powers to decide on the posting of IAS officers has met with stiff resistance. Leading the united chorus to withdraw the changes, is Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who on Thursday, sent a second letter in eight days to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the […]
Bharatiya Janata Party’s decision to field chief minister Adityanath from his home turf, the assembly constituency of Gorakhpur in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh polls has spurred every opposition party into action as they scramble to field their most influential candidates from the area. Gorakhpur has been a BJP stronghold since 1989 with the party winning the seat […]
In a historic step, the 50-year-old Amar Jawan Jyoti underneath India Gate in central Delhi was “put out” and a symbolic torch from it merged with the flame instituted at a few hundred metres away at National War Memorial. The Amar Jyoti has been an iconic symbol of the nation’s tributes to the soldiers who […]
A 17-year-old student in Tamil Nadu’s Thanjavur district committed suicide over alleged harassment to convert to Christianity. The incident came to light on January 10, when the boarding school authorities called the minor’s father Muruganandam stating that their daughter was admitted to a hospital after she vomited and complained of severe stomach pain. The girl […]
The Delhi high court on January 11 decided to hear petitions challenging Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which exempts forceful sexual intercourse by a man with his wife from the offence of rape, or provides a sort of “marital rape immunity” to men. It said that irrespective of marital status, every woman has the […]
