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A guest lecturer at Tumkuru’s Jain PU College in Karnataka has quit amid the controversy over restrictions on wearing a hijab (headscarf) at educational institutions that has triggered a massive debate. Even as the Karnataka High Court hears a slew of petitions against the government order, students and teachers in the southern state have been told […]
Liton Bhumij’s family in Bangladesh had begun to lose hope of finding their 25-year-old autistic son. He accidentally walked into Indian territory in Assam in 2017. Thereon, there was little left to do but ask around. However, fate had planned otherwise. Activist Sujan Debroy, based in Assma’s Cachar district, saw Liton’s photo on Facebook posts […]
Rashad Hussain, the US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom (IRF), tweeted, “The Indian state of Karnataka should not determine the permissibility of religious clothing. Hijab bans in schools violate religious freedom and stigmatize and marginalize women and girls”. This reaction comes in the wake of the events of the hijab ban in schools and colleges […]
Nirmala Sitharaman has broke her silence over the issue of Legalising Crypto in the country, After the the proposed implementation of tax on Private Crypto Currency during Budget 2022, Finance Minister has spoken up after the Crypto Currency Tax got mixed reaction and people assuming the actions as Legalization of the Private Crypto Currency. Finance […]
India’s obsession with the Allu Arjun blockbuster Pushpa: The Rise has now transcended national borders, as the Internet now celebrates a South Korean citizen recreating Arjun’s quirky ‘hook step’ dance routine accompanying the song Srivalli. Released in December 2021, anything to do with Pushpa seems to be still trending furiously online. From Arjun’s fiery dialogues to the […]
What started as a matter between the government college in Udupi and five students has taken on a pan-India scale. The pro-Hijab and anti the headscarf row further escalated with the Karnataka HC referring the matter to a larger bench. On Thursday, the court sat on the matter again and stating that no interim relief […]
The politicians have walked the walk and talked the talk. Now it is up to the discerning population of western Uttar Pradesh, which goes to the hustings in the first phase of the mother of all elections on Thursday, to make its choices. The first of the seven phases of polling for the UP Assembly […]
Three youths were arrested on Thursday night following attack on AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi’s vehicle while the Hyderabad MP was on his way back to Delhi after campaigning for upcoming assembly election in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut today evening, the Hapur police station officials informed Vibes of India (Vo!) The AIMIM leader Owaisi had alleged that […]
Mahabharata remains at the core of Indian traditions, even as the discourse between Lord Krishna and Arjun forms the scared Hindu text, Srimad Bhagvad Gita. It exalts the virtues of honesty, discipline, perseverance, the respect elders must be given and the duties of youngers, the privileges of childhood and of course, the central role of […]
Immediately after the Congress leader’s speech in parliament, BJP leaders and supporters have come at him all guns blazing – but with sentiment, not fact. New Delhi: No sooner did Congress leader Rahul Gandhi finish giving a speech in Parliament on February 2, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) went at the opposition leader all guns blazing. Gandhi’s […]
Panchmahal police on Tuesday slapped the stringent Gujarat Control of Terrorism and Organised Crime (GUJCTOC) Act on six people of a “terrorist gang” from Godhra. The gang members have 45 pending cases against them pertaining to alleged cow slaughter, vehicle theft and assault on cops that date back to 2010. The GUJCTOC court in Godhra […]
As another Union Budget rolls around, there is a palpable air of disenchantment and disinterest. Last year was meant to be the ‘make or break’ speech from Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Notable for its acknowledgement of the dire fiscal situation, little else stands out from the event. This year, even the pre-budget energy one […]
The Gauhati High Court recently ruled that terming a housewife as ‘skilled worker’, does not dojustice to her role in managing the house [Mrinal Kanti Debnath & ors vs United India Assurance CoLtd & ors]. The court made this observation in a motor accident claim case. Justice Malasri Nandi, who was hearing an appeal challenging […]
A family of four Indians, including a baby, has died from exposure to cold weather on the Canadian side of the border with the U.S. in an apparent human smuggling operation, according to media reports. Manitoba Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on Thursday said that the bodies of four people — two adults, a teen […]
When former BJP MP from eastern Uttar Pradesh Harinarayan Rajbhar declared in a January 4 video that UP BJP vice-president AK Sharma “will be the next chief minister from our region,” he set the political tongues wagging in the Hindi heartland that goes to polls next month. Though Rajbhar from Mau, to which Sharma also […]
A retired postman in Bihar has invited trouble for those in charge of administering COVID-19 vaccines, by claiming that he took the jab eleven times. While the district health authorities are investigating the matter, Brahmdeo Mandal is relieved that he got rid of his walking stick and all aches and pains. He kept detailed handwritten […]
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). […]
The Court of Inquiry being conducted by a tri-services inquiry team will be a fair process, Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari told reporters on Saturday. Air Chief Marshal Chaudhari said the probe will take a few more weeks and he would not like to preempt any of the findings of the court of inquiry […]
From October 1, internet users in India must manually renew all their subscription-based services such as phone bills, OTT platform subscriptions and systematic investment plans, among other services. This is a consequence of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) new rules on auto-debit transactions that prevent merchants from automatically charging customers’ credit and debit cards […]
As the Vicky Kaushal Starrer Udham Singh reopens the wounds of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, it is perhaps the right time to revisit another horrific mass murder committed by the British in India that has been lost in the foggy ruins of time. That genocidal act of the colonial rulers was carried out on November 19, 1918 […]
