NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced that the Khel Ratna award would be renamed after hockey legend major Dhyan Chand. The Khel Ratna, India’s highest sporting honour, had been originally named after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. Announcing the decision on Twitter, Modi wrote, “I have been getting many requests from […]
NEW DELHI — The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) labelled marriage between Muslims and non-Muslims as “regretful” and “unfortunate”. Saying that such marriages are banned as per the Sharia, acting general secretary of AIMPLB, Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani said that parents, guardians and representatives of mosques and madrassas across the nation must take […]
A 15-year-old girl died in suspicious conditions on Thursday after she was allegedly publicly shamed by her school principal over the delay in payment of fees in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh. The incident came to light after the deceased student’s family lodged a complaint at Unnao Kotwali police station. The teenager was a resident […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court, while hearing a clutch of petitions, including those filed by the Editors Guild of India, seeking a special probe into the Pegasus spyware scandal involving allegations that opposition leaders, journalists and others were targets of snooping, said “the allegations are serious if the media reports correct”. A two-member bench, […]
KOLKATA — West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday flayed the NHRC for “disrespecting the court” and pursuing “political vendetta” of the BJP by leaking its report on alleged post-poll violence to the media. Banerjee also expressed surprise over the conclusion that the National Human Rights Commission arrived at in its report without taking into […]
NEW DELHI — The Uttar Pradesh Population Policy 2021-2030 bill proposed by CM Yogi Adityanath has been at the centre of criticism from the Opposition ever since it was unveiled. The opposition has termed it a move aimed at influencing next year’s assembly elections. Hyderabad MP and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, who recently entered into […]
NEW DELHI — In the midst of the continuing military stalemate with India, the Chinese Army is erecting permanent concrete buildings along the Line of Actual Control, allowing its soldiers to quickly reach the disputed territories with India. According to senior government sources, one such military camp is being built a few kilometres inside Chinese territory, […]
NEW DELHI — JNU student Sharjeel Imam, arrested under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and sedition law, has moved a bail plea before a court here in a case related to making allegedly inflammatory speeches during the protests against CAA and NRC at two universities. Imam was arrested for his alleged speech at Jamia […]
NEW DELHI — A whopping 85 per cent of the higher education students in India believe they had a learning loss, according to a survey by TeamLease EdTech. The survey, titled “Covid 19 Learning Loss in Higher Education”, showed that while students feel that the loss is between 40 per cent and 60 per cent, […]
NEW DELHI — Continuing his criticism against the Modi government, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today alleged that the Centre destroyed in seconds what took centuries to build. Rahul posted his remark on his Twitter handle while cornering the government over a range of issues including vaccine shortage, confrontation China along the LAC, unemployment, price hike, […]