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Angad Singh Bhatia, a resident of Pune and ardent dance lover may well be one of the youngest animal welfare activists in India. At just 19 years of age, he is in the process of organising a drive to feed as many stray dogs as he can, as well as spraying them with anti-tick spray […]
Kupwara: 65 km away from the frontier district headquarters Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir; Keran is located very close to the Line of Actual control (LAC). Early in June 2021, Keran, Mandiyan and Kundiyan villages saw scenes of jubilation when they were finally connected to the rest of the world, via mobile connection towers. “The […]
As India celebrated its 75th Independence Day on August 15, 2021, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted in his eighth I-Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort the importance of Aatma Nirbhar and ‘Sab Vikas’ for building a new India. He also announced that the Centre will soon launch the Rs 100 lac-crore Gati […]
Addressing at an event organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Thursday, Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal criticised Tata and in wider perspective said that the local businesses should not just focus on profits or think of bypassing local laws. Following which, he faced the criticism on social media today for his remarks. […]
PM Modi on Saturday said that August 14 will be observed as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day in memory of the struggles and sacrifices of our people for independence. The partition era in 1947 is known as one of the darkest periods in the history of India as the division had displaced hundreds of thousands of […]
TMC MLA Madan Mitra said that ‘Khela Hobe’ to be reverberate across India on Saturday. “Khela Hobe to be celebrated in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Tripura, Haryana, Bihar and many other states. Some will celebrate it under the flag of Trinamool Congress while others may not use any party symbol. But the slogan will reach across […]
After the approval of the proposal for a study on the mixing of two COVID-19 vaccines – Covishield and Covaxin by Drugs Controller General of India (DGCI), the Chairman of Serum Institute of India, Cyrus Poonawalla indicated the mixing of the vaccines to be risky on Friday. He said, “I am against the mixing of […]
Netflix and UNESCO have come together to celebrate India’s rich cultural heritage through the popular animated series “Mighty Little Bheem” which encompasses the adventures of Bheem. The animated series premiered on the streaming platform in 2019. A series of short videos, ‘One Country, Incredible Diversity’ featuring Bheem will focus on India’s cultural journey, including monuments, […]
The Kerela High Court rejected the petitions by the head of the Kerela-based Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and ordered that he should face trial in all the cases linked to the 2018 Church land scam on Thursday. Justice P Somarajan rejected seven petitions against a lower court order which had ordered that Varghese and Alencherry should […]
Mumbai-based pharmaceutical company Wockhardt has entered into an agreement with Dubai-based Enso Healthcare DMCC and Human Vaccine (HV) LLC, for the manufacture and supply of the Sputnik V and Sputnik Light vaccine against Covid-19, as per a statement issued by the pharmaceutical company on Friday. It further said that with subject to required approvals and […]
An IAF Corporal from Jamnagar Yogendra Kumar has received a show-cause notice from the IAF and has filed a petition against his employees for violating his fundamental right to choose to refuse to get the jab. While the matter has already reached the Gujarat High Court, Centre in its response to the plea informed the […]
From being a 17-year-old Torch Bearer at the rally at the London Olympics in 2012 to now working as a permanent labourer with a daily wage of Rs 205 at Dibrugarh district’s Borborooah Tea Estate in Assam, Pinky Karmakar’s life has seen a complete dismal. Her responsibility at the Tea Estate is to ensure the […]
Pakistani Hindu stuck in India with three children after his wife died in April is pleading with the authorities to let him return to before Independence Day, August 14. “Mein TooT gaya huN – I am broken,” says Ajeet Kumar Nagdev, 41, speaking on phone in Urdu from Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh. His wife Rekha Kumari, 38, died […]
The menace of criminilasation in the political system of India is growing day by day hence to ensure that a voter chooses a candidate after gathering all information about the candidate, the Supreme Court has directed all political parties to update the information of their candidates with criminal backgrounds on the homepage of their websites. […]
The concept of “Mid Day Meal” was introduced back in 1925 in Madras Municipal Corporation so as to improve the effectiveness of primary education by improving the nutritional levels of school children. The program was universalised by the mid-1980s in states like Kerala, Gujarat, Tamilnadu, and Pondicherry for primary school children and by the year […]
IAS topper, Tina Dabi has been in the limelight ever since she filed for divorce from her husband Athar Amir. Today their divorce application has been stamped by the family court. Their marriage had made a lot of headlines in 2018. And the discussions of their meeting were also going on in the media with […]
The Canadian government has extended the ban on direct flights from India by another 30 days. The ban was set to expire on August 21, but will now remain in place until September 21. It is the fifth time the ban has been extended since it was first imposed on April 22 due to fears […]
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has made the foreign nationals residing in India to register on CoWin portal and get vaccinated against COVID-19. Their passport can be used as identity document for the purpose of slot registration on the portal. Once they are registered on the portal, they will get a slot for […]
Among the undercurrents surfacing in Uttar Pradesh politics just months before the 2022 assembly elections is one that could potentially transform political and social equations in the western region and adjoining Braj and Rohilkhand. Between them, this swath of land spans the Jat belt, the “holy land” of Mathura-Brindavan-Goverdhan, and Moradabad, Bareilly and Saharanpur. The […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the next and 9th installment of financial benefit under PM-KISAN scheme through video conference on Monday. He also interacted with farmer beneficiaries during the event. The transfer of an amount of more than Rs. 19,500 crores to more than 9.75 crores beneficiary farmer families. At the event PM talked about the […]
