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In a surprise political decision, Bhupendra Patel has been named the new Chief Minister of Gujarat. This humble, fresh face from Ghatlodiya, Ahmedabad has dislodged other contenders who were being mooted, including Mansukh Mandaviya, Nitin Patel, CR Paatil and others. Patel won the election as an MLA in 2017 and has been appreciated for his […]
Noted film financier Yusuf Lakdawala, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate and lodged in Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail, died on Thursday. West Zone DIG, Yogesh Desai said that Lakdawala was suffering from cancer and was admitted to the jail hospital on September 6. The Mumbai builder, who was arrested by the ED in a […]
The state government decided to lift the night curfew and Sunday lockdown enforced in Kerala. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan informed this in a press conference after the Covid review meeting on Tuesday. Earlier, restrictions were intensified in view of a surge in the daily cases of Covid-19, especially after Onam. But with no rise in the […]
It’s the largest protest in Indian history and is showing no signs of losing steam. For over nine months now, farmers across India have been protesting the ruling BJP government’s farm laws, which they say will crush the widely scattered farm sector and corporatise it. On September 5, farmers from 15 states across India gathered […]
A political slugfest of sorts has broken out between the ruling Shiv Sena and its former partner Bharatiya Janata Party with the arrest of union minister Narayan Rane after three FIRs for his alleged remarks of slapping Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray during his Monday’s rally in Raigad. The FIRs have been lodged against Rane […]
In a boost to the vaccination initiatives of the Government of Kerala, Reliance Foundation has provided 2.5 lakh free COVID-19 vaccine doses for the state. The commitment was formally handed over to the Chief Minister of Kerala, Shri Pinarayi Vijayan, by a delegation from Reliance. Expressing his heartfelt thanks, Shri Vijayan said, Reliance Foundation’s gesture of […]
Justice Rohinton Nariman, who is demitting office today has certainly earned a place of pride in the pantheon of legal luminaries in independent India quite like his illustrious father Fali Nariman. A postgraduate from Harvard Law School and an ordained Parsi priest, Nariman was designated as a senior counsel in 1993 and later went on to be […]
During the first Test match between England and India in Nottingham, the racism incident where racial slurs were thrown at the cricketers and then fans. This incident was unveiled on Reddit by a British Indian woman. According to the fan, Captain Virat Kohli was being called “Wanker Kohli” and Mohammed Shami was addressed as “Sh**ty […]
Naga Nebulus is a cartoonist who has been immersed in the world of art and illustration ever since they saw a cartoonist at work for the first time at the age of ten.Being an ardent admirer of mythology, history, and unsolved mysteries, they took the Naga, meaning a noble Indian Dragon, and Nebulus, meaning shadow […]
Rajya Sabha member, John Brittas, has moved the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored probe into the snooping of activists, politicians, journalists and constitutional functionaries using Israeli spyware Pegasus. A massive political uproar has erupted after 17 media organisations reported that the Pegasus spyware was being used to conduct surveillance on about 300 Indians, including ministers, political leaders, […]
In February 2018, the then Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Maharashtra set up a special investigation team (SIT) to probe companies that were allegedly selling or releasing unapproved herbicide-tolerant (HT) transgenic cotton, or Bt cotton, seeds in the state. In particular, the state had accused several seed companies of surreptitiously releasing the seeds in […]
A key assertion made by Ashwani Vaishnaw, minister for communication, electronics and information technology, on the floor of the Lok Sabha on Monday – “In the past, similar claims were made regarding the use of Pegasus on WhatsApp, those reports had no factual basis and has been denied by all parties…” – is flatly contradicted […]
