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As yet another MLA leaves the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and joins the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), it seems unlikely that a resolution is in the near future for the party’s internal feud in West Bengal. Many predict that the saffron party is on the verge of extinction. Bagdah MLA, Biswajit Das was the new […]
The International Press Institute (IPI) announced on Wednesday that The Wire has won the 2021 Free Media Pioneer Award, as “a leader in India’s digital news revolution and an unflinching defender of independent, high-quality journalism”. “We are extremely proud to recognise The Wire as this year’s IPI-IMS Free Media Pioneer. The Wire is a leading […]
To mark the 125th birth anniversary of AC Bhaktivedanta Swami, a Kolkata-born spiritual leader and founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), PM Modi will be releasing a 125-rupees coin on Thursday. This move comes after the day of Janmashtami, Lord Krishna’s birthday. A statement from PM Modi’s office stated that he will […]
The EPF benefits for the PF subscribers will be curtailed from Sept 1, Wednesday, if the Aadhaar card of the subscriber is not linked with the PF account. A couple of months ago, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) had postponed the deadline for linking the Aadhaar card with the PF account from June 1, […]
In a first, nine judges were administered oath as the judges of the Supreme Court by CJI NV Ramana on Tuesday. This was the first instance of the apex court wherein nine judges took the oath of office together. The five-member Supreme Court Collegium, headed by CJI Ramana, had recommended nine names for appointment […]
Naresh Parmar Mayapur, the headquarter of ISKCON, in Nadia district of West Bengal is ready to gain the fame of having the world’s largest Krishna Temple. Aimed to be completed by 2022, the Temple of Vedic Planetarium is located in Mayapur, which is 130 km from Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal. The shrine will […]
Image for representative purpose Parliament’s outreach programme to empower J&K’s Panchayati raj institutions is ready to be launched on August 31. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is expected to unveil the programme.The function for the programme will be conducted in Srinagar; Birla has arrived from Ladakh for the same on Sunday. The programme will be […]
The temporary suspension of coronavirus for international flights has been extended to September 30, the DGCA aviation director said on Sunday. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation also added, “However, international scheduled flights may be allowed on selected routes by the competent authority on a case-to-case basis.” Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, international flights have […]
The vaccinated people in India are looking for medical advice about the third dose as many other vaccine-surplus countries start with booster doses of Covid-19 vaccines or announce to do the same. Mostly, the people awaiting the third jab include healthcare workers as they are at the frontline and were vaccinated as early as January. […]
Section 5 of the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Amendment Act 2021gives those in power more power over religious conversions On August 19, the Gujarat High Court stayed Section 5 of the state’s anti-conversion law. On August 26, Pratapsingh Jadeja, Gujarat’s Home Minister, declared that Section 5 forms the ‘core’ of the amended new law. He was right. […]
The Central Government nodded to the list of nine High Court judges suggested by the Supreme Court Collegium, for filling the nine vacant seats of Supreme Court judges, after the retirement of Justice Rohinton Nariman on August 12. The list included four HC chief justices, four HC judges and one senior advocate, with three women […]
Bhupesh Baghel breathes for now. Exigencies of politics dictate which promises will be kept and when. Chhattisgarh health minister TS Singhdeo, by all accounts a gentleman, has learnt this the hard way. Rahul Gandhi has for a second time chosen to not keep his promise about leadership of the state, as incumbent Bhupesh Baghel won […]
The central government has once again increased the FRP paid by sugar mills to sugarcane growers this year. The government has increased the FRP (Fair and Remunerative Price) of sugarcane by Rs 5 per quintal to Rs 290 per quintal for the year 2021-22. Last season, the Modi government had increased the FRP by Rs […]
The BJP Tamil Nadu expelled a YouTuber, Madan Ravichandran and his associate, Venba from the party citing his anti-party activities as the reason. Announcing their expulsion from the BJP, party state general secretary Karu Nagarajan said that both were removed from the primary membership and appealed the party workers to not have any ties with […]
The US web service provider, Yahoo has shut down its news services in India. The decision was taken in purview of changes in the rules of foreign investment limit (FDI). The new rules of the Government of India says that no media outlets in the country are allowed to invest more than 26 per cent. […]
Politics in Bihar is as multi-layered and intricate as the number of players, big and small, that make and mar fortunes in the legislature and Parliament. The recent kerfuffle over conducting a caste census revealed the fault lines that run deep across Bihar’s polity and the contradictions both within the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) […]
Kerela has reported 31.445 new cases and 215 deaths in the 24 hours that ended at 8 am on Wednesday. The number of active cases in the state has reached 1.7 lakh. The active cases in India have dropped down to 3.22 lakh and Kerela accounts for almost half of the active cases at 1.59 […]
The new income tax filing portal crashing within seven hours of its launch has once again exposed the gap between promise and delivery in governance, and the one paying the price for it is the taxpayer. What followed after the June 7 launch of the new “taxpayer-friendly” portal was that finance minister Nirmala Sitaraman summoned […]
Former Chief Commissioner of Income Tax D P Kar has petitioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi for ordering a probe against recently retired Revenue Secretary A B Pandey for his alleged involvement with Infosys and dubiously granting many big tenders for the flopped network of GST and new Income Tax portal. In a detailed six-page complaint […]
The Enforcement Directorate filed a prosecution complaint against former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh’s personal secretary Sanjeev Palande and personal assistant Kundan Shinde in a money laundering case against the politician for allegedly taking a bribe of up to Rs 100 crore. The probe agency had arrested Palande and Shinde on July 1, claiming […]
