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Lodged at the Sabarmati Central Prison since four days, the 93 AAP workers and 10 college students face charges under 22 sections of the IPC, including criminal conspiracy, and sections of the Epidemic Diseases Act and Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act. About 65 male- accused in the group, also face sexual harassment charges. […]
Back in 1990s, when violence erupted in Kashmir, the once buzzing church in Srinagar witnessed a sharp decline in number of worshippers and was shut down. The 125-year-old church is now reopened for public. The opening of the church was on December 23, Thursday and a prayer was held a day before. It is located […]
Amid the season of warmth and cheer, this incident of hate mounted by right fringe groups will leave you thinking. Nirmala English High School in Pandavpura area of Mandya district in Karnataka was all dressed up to usher in Christmas. Children donned Santa’s mantle and there was a general mirth in the otherwise covid-dampened air. […]
India lost yet another Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot, Wing Commander Harshit Sinha in the flying incident of the fighter Jet MiG-21 that crashed near Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer on December 24. This comes merely weeks after a similar IAF Chopper crashed in Tamil Nadu that led to the demise of Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat […]
As the BJP braces for several crucial elections next year, the Sangh Pariwar’s hardline arm Vishwa Hindu Parishad is set to launch a “massive campaign” to bring back Hindu converts to Islam and Christianity, while it has demanded that Adivasi converts should not get reservation benefits. “Christians have persecuted, conducted genocides and mass executions […]
The movie ‘83’, based on India’s first victory in the World Cup that was released today has been going viral on social media for all the wrong reasons. Many people have called for boycotting the film on Twitter. #Boycott83 along with #BoycottBollywood are trending on Twitter. However, the demand for boycotting the film is based […]
Friday prayers have been stopped at the Grand Mosque in Srinagar for the 20th consecutive week now. The place of worship was first shut on August 5, 2019, following the abrogation of J&K’s special status and then subsequently due to the pandemic. But now, with other religious institutions opening around the country (including mosques in other […]
Venture capital funds saw worth $30 billion investments in 2021. This exceeds more than total of all investments made in the last few years. So, what is Cryptocurrency? Crypto is a form of payment that can circulate without the need for a central monetary authority such as a government or bank. Instead, cryptocurrencies are created […]
There is no need to vaccinate kids against Covid 19 – Dr Jayprakash Muliyil, member of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation in India recently made this statement. In an interview, Muliyil stated that India has not witnessed deaths due to Covid-19 till now. All registered deaths among children are due to cancer, leukaemia […]
The Centre’s insecure attitude on surveillance is now on full display, as the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) amended the Unified License Agreement on December 21, asking telecom and Internet service providers to maintain call detail records for at least two years, instead of the current one-year practice. The additional time was apparently based on requests […]
A clip from a 2018 Tamil film recently went viral, with its ludicrous suggestion about candidates clearing the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) examination and the following recruitment. The film clip suggests that a rank in the ‘first category’ would immediately offer the candidate a service his/her preference. On Wednesday, Supriya Sahu, Indian Administrative Service […]
Citizens aware of their rights approaching the Consumer Courts to complain about malpractices and injustice in the during transactions with sellers across the country. A large number of cases are pending in the main court of Gujarat i.e. Gujarat State Commission and 38 consumer courts of the districts of the state due to piling of […]
The Anti-conversion Bill in Karnataka that was cleared on Thursday emerged as far more stringent. The draft of the Karnataka Dharma Swatantrya Act, 2012 was sent to the Law Department for scrutiny in September, 2013. The draft was supposed to come up for discussion before Cabinet in 2016. However, the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government never took […]
Despite the Opposition and some pro-government voices too, questioning the merit of raising the marriage age for girls from 18 to 21, political analysts see a deeper motif. This will be just another brick towards achieving the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) wall. India, being a heterogenous society with various faiths and traditions, enacting a blanket […]
Following her summons to the Khar police station, Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut recorded a statement concerning the FIR lodged against her for her alleged derogatory remark against the farmer protests. On her Instagram account, Kangana said ‘…This country devalues nationalists’. The actor had approached the Bombay High Court earlier in December to quash the FIR […]
In one of the Khap Mahapanchayat gathered in Jind, Haryana has opined against the Government’s recent marriage bill which seeks to extend valid age for a girl’s marriage from 18 to 21. The panchayat was called to discuss the Bill. The Khap leaders argued that 18 is the ideal age for the marriage of daughters […]
A wave of relief for The National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL) has washed over as the laboratory’s World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accreditation has been restored, as informed by WADA. With this development, NDTL’s Anti-Doping testing and activities will be resumed with immediate effect. This development was announced by the Union Minister of Youth Affairs and […]
A tribal student from India’s most backward tribal district, Jhabua in Madhya Pradesh has become the darling of the masses for challenging the State Chief Minister’s governance. Her video suggesting that she be made the Collector to make up for poor governance, has gone viral. What really is super embarrassing for the BJP Chief Minister […]
Serum Institute of India Chief Executive Adar Poonawalla on Thursday shared a meme video showing how countries are fighting the Omicron variant of coronavirus. The video made by US-based Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, shows a boy (marked as a vaccine) fighting two men (marked as the Delta and Omicron variants of Covid-19). […]
India has been making immense progress in advance defence technology. DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation)successfully conducting a second flight-test of indigenously developed conventional Surface-to-Surface missile ‘Pralay’, is an embodiment of the first statement. Similar to the first test, this launch was also conducted from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha. […]
