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Today the nation feels threatened, our collective security and democracy compromised – or so the media would have you believe, with the prime minister’s cavalcade having to turn back due to protests and the allegations of ‘poor security management’ it has given rise to. But in reality, this incident reveals to us the many facets […]
The Chhattisgarh Police ordered an inquiry today into a video that purportedly showed people taking a pledge to economically boycott Muslims by not purchasing goods from them. As per a report by the Hindustan Times, the police said that they were trying to trace the people who gathered the crowd to take the oath. A […]
As it is, we have far too many public holidays in this country. Perhaps the time has come to reduce, not increase, the number of public holidays. We do not see any substance in the petition. It is rejected. Bombay High Court On Wed, Jan 5 This was the honourable court’s response to a plea […]
Keeping in mind the rising Covid numbers and its surge in tow, the 15th edition of Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), earlier scheduled between January 28-February 1, has now been postponed to March 5-14. About 250 authors, thinkers, politicians and popular culture icons across the globe are expected to participate in the festival, which will be […]
The threat lies in its easy transmissibility. The more numbers Omicron infects, the greater the spread. Even if a percent of the infected were to be hospitalised, the health system would collapse. Omicron is less likely to infect the lungs and resides mainly in the upper airways. The heavily mutated virus is smashing daily case […]
A Maharashtra court has directed the police to initiate a preliminary probe against Patanjali Ayurved founders Baba Ramdev and Acharya Balkrishna over their claims about Cornoil tablet as a cure for COVID-19. The Court was taking cognisance of a private criminal case against Baba Ramdev for publicly making ‘illegal and false’ claims that Patanjali had […]
The Supreme Court today reserved its order on the EWS (Economically Weaker Section) quota for NEET postgraduate counselling 2021 but said that the counselling must begin in national interest. The Apex Court has asked the petitioners to file a short note of their reply by Friday morning. NEET PG Counselling was delayed after a plea […]
Somnath Sanskrit University and Gujarat National Law Board have announced to have joined hands to start a diploma course in Ancient Indian Jurisprudence. In-Charge Vice Chancellor and Somnath Sanskrit University Lalit Patel and GNLU Director S Shanthakumar both confirmed the news separately. After the moves to add ayurveda curriculum to students studying allopathy, this is […]
Various Educational Institutes and their heads are putting a lot of force on reinventing Bharatiya ethos and on the need to focus on the specialties of Indian Culture to attract a large number of foreign students in Indian Universities, during Vice Chancellors’ Conclave held at the International Conference of Academic Institutions in Ahmedabad on Thursday. […]
Government of India has plans to issue e-passports to the citizens, Ministry of External Affairs had told Parliament in 2016. Now, the plan appears to become a reality soon. MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi has said that “It has been the endeavour of the Ministry to enhance passport services and introduce new features” Wikipedia defines e-passport […]
The Central government has urged nine states and a Union Territory to step up Covid-19 testing to prevent the spread of the highly contagious Omicron variant. Expressing concern over a considerable decline in Covid-19 testing in eight states and a Union territory, the Centre said this is happening when COVID infections are on the rise […]
In the unprecedented times of Corona, a man named Kovid Kapoor is getting popular on social media for obvious reasons. He wrote his detailed experience of funny, sad and ugly part of being named Kovid in the times of Covid. He wrote, “Went outside India for the first time since COVID and got a bunch […]
President Ram Nath Kovind has expressed concern about the alleged security breach during PM Modi’s visit to Punjab on Wednesday. PM Modi met the President today and gave him a first-hand account of the security breach, the Rashtrapati Bhavan said. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu also expressed his concerns on the matter. PM was to […]
Doctors and expects all over the world have been imploring people to mask up in the times of Corona ever since the pandemic surfaced. Masks, Sanitisation and Social Distancing have been the three weapons in the forefront of fight against Covid as the preventive measures. The age old adage, prevention is better than cure has […]
At the age of 84, Hari Prasad Chaurasia appears unsteady and frail, but that impression quickly dissipates when he begins playing. The doyen of Indian classical music created magic on the fifth day on the Saptak Music Festival on Wednesday, with his hour-long performance of Rag Maru Bihag. For a while, it seemed the unseasonal […]
India is now officially in the midst of a COVID Third Wave, officials have stated, with the fast-spreading Omicron variant leading to a massive leap in case numbers in just about a week’s time. Most Indian cities have now called for curfews. “India is clearly in the Third Wave of COVID-19, and the whole thing […]
Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Bandi Sanjay Kumar has been sent to judicial custody for 14 days. He was arrested for a protest which allegedly violated the Covid guidelines imposed in Telangana. Karimnagar MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar and other BJP leaders were staging a ‘jagaran deeksha’ protest against Government Order 317, which pertains to […]
The luxury cruise liner which sailed into limelight with the Aryan Khan arrest, is docked in news port again. Cordelia’s press statement released January 2, notified of cancellation on the planned January 5 tour, as 66 of the 2000 people onboard tested positive on January 2. The matter came to light after a crew member […]
Megastar Chiranjeevi has come out in support of his brother and a star in his own right Pawan Kalyan on his political views opposing the Chief Minister Y S Jagan Reddy. Pawan Kalyan has founded the Jana Sena Party in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on 14 March 2014 with the motto “fight for the rights […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has tested positive for Covid-19 and has isolated himself. The Delhi Chief Minister took to Twitter this morning and said that he is Covid positive with mild symptoms and asked the people who came in his contact to get themselves tested. “I have tested positive for Covid. Mild symptoms. Have […]
