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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 […]
Candid pictures and videos of animals in their natural habitat are an absolute treat to the eye. A bunch of super candid shots of two owlets perched upon a branch together have gone viral online and these pictures absolutely prove the fact that animals in their natural habitat look the best . These snaps are […]
Senior Congress leader Shaktisinh Gohil has demanded an all-party delegation visit led by PM Narendra Modi to all Indian areas trespassed upon by China in a press conference held today. Congress on Thursday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi must break the silence over the boundary issue with China and tell the reality to the […]
Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu required only 33 minutes to improve her American opponent 21-16, 21-13 in her second-round match. Sindhu will take on 6th seeded Thai shuttler Supanida Katethong in the last-eight phase. PV Sindhu, the two-time Olympic champion, raged into the ladies’ singles quarterfinals of the Syed Modi International badminton competition after registering […]
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the 27 per cent quota for Other Backward Classes (OBC) in the National Eligibility Cumulative Entrance Test (NEET) All India Quota (AIQ) seats in state government medical institutions has a ‘distributive impact’ and is not in conflict with merit. The judgment came in response to a petition challenging […]
National President of All India People’s National Party Mudasir Tantary said that Kashmir is incomplete without Kashmir Pandits during a media interaction. Tantary said they would like to see an end to the divide-and-rule politics played by the regional parties. The displaced Kashmiri Pandits observe January 19 as “holocaust day” as they were removed out […]
TMC leader and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stated that the proposed amendments are against the “spirit of cooperative federalism” and has written 2 letters so far to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the last eight days on proposed changes in IAS cadre rules. Mamata Banerjee wrote Prime minister Narendra Modi urging him to […]
Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav will contest Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections from the Karhal city of Mainpuri. This will be the first time that the Former Chief Minister of UP will contest the assembly election. Ever since Samajwadi Party was formed, the party has always won Karhal Assembly seat in Mainipuri since 1993 with the […]
As many as five office bearers Lilaben Ankolia, Dhansukh Bhanderi, from the board corporations of the Gujarat government including have resigned. Reportedly, new officer bearers will be appointed on more than 40 boards. As part of the BJP’s new strategy ahead of the 2022 elections, there has been a flurry of new appointments in the […]
The Supreme Court, Thursday, questioned the states for the delay in awarding compensations to the families of Covid victims and the discrepancies in the death figures and claims. Justice Sanjiv Khanna observed: “There is a serious discrepancy in the states. In many states, deaths are recorded and the number of applications doesn’t match. In others, […]
A study conducted by Hyderabad’s AIG Hospital and Asian Healthcare Foundation, sampled swab specimens on 1,636 healthcare workers who were fully vaccinated. The report was aimed at assessing the long-term durability of vaccine immunity with respect to antibody levels. It was discovered that 30 per cent of individuals had antibody levels below the protective immunity […]
In a major embarrassment for the Chhattisgarh Government, advocate Priyanka Shukla of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday made a serious allegation that Secretary to the CM S Bharathidasan offered highly paid jobs to his and two wives of his IAS friends in a World Bank-aided project. Priyanka Shukla, an active member of the […]
On January 2, the apex court, in view of the growing number of transmissions of the coronavirus, decided that all hearings would be digitized. The government is keeping a constant check on variants of this virus,and despite the constant checks, the cases continue to rise. It is found that 10 judges and more than 400 […]
Nothing delights the RSS-BJP more than splitting political estates and breaking up legacy families. It’s about creating splinter “parivars” (families) rather than repose power and command in one central figure, the patriarch or the matriarch or the heir, as with the Samajwadi Party (SP) of Uttar Pradesh, which is helmed by Akhilesh Yadav. This morning, […]
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said that he will have to ask for “permission” from Azamgarh citizens if he were to fight the upcoming assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh. “I will contest from whichever seat the party allots and I will ask the people of Azamgarh,” the Azamgarh MP said at a press […]
Even as the Samajwadi Party was caught in a family feud ahead of the 2017 assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, with party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav and his brother Shivpal Singh Yadav on one end and chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on the other, Aparna Yadav, Mulayam’s second daughter-in-law, had drawn attention. As Akhilesh was pulling […]
The Samajwadi Party finds itself in an embarrassing spot right ahead of UP assembly elections as SP’s patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav’s younger daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav joins hands with the rival BJP. Although there might not be a hidden ploy behind this move, it is being viewed to be a way to retaliate after many defectors […]
Veterinary scientists have detected the coronavirus in the wild leopard cub in Uttar Pradesh, thee first time the virus has been found in a free roaming wild feline. The preprint server biorxiv, revealed that the one-year-old cub, which was found dead in mid-October, just months after the second wave of the pandemic in India had […]
A majority of India’s workforce — primarily consisting of youngsters with a year’s experience or less — is thinking of switching jobs in 2022, a survey conducted by global professional networking website LinkedIn and UK-based market researcher Censuswide has shown. Better pay topped the list of incentives that would convince them to stay with their […]
A week after ‘precaution doses’—the Indian government’s moniker for COVID-19 vaccine booster shots – were allowed for healthcare and frontline workers and vulnerable senior citizens, vaccine uptake has been slow, figures suggest. Doses administered to healthcare workers seem to be on a steady downward spiral, while others are fluctuating. While the return of vaccine hesitancy […]
