New Delhi: Priyanka Chaturvedi, Rajya Sabha MP and Shiv Sena leader, said the government of the day cannot discriminate amongst online news platforms depending on their loyalty to the ruling dispensation, as it goes against the principle of freedom of expression. In a letter dated March 12, she had written to the Rajya Sabha secretary […]
New Delhi: Putting an end to speculation over the dates and mode of the National Entrance cum Eligibility Test (NEET) 2021, the National Testing Agency (NTA) has clarified that the dates will be finalised this week and the exam will take place offline. The NEET exam, for admission into medical colleges, was delayed twice last […]
5 remaining innocent died during trial Ahmedabad: A court in Gujarat’s Surat district on Saturday acquitted 127 Muslims, who were arrested in 2001 under the draconian Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act by the Narendra Modi government. Five of them died during the trial that lasted for 20 years. These Muslims were accused of participating in a […]
New Delhi: The government on Thursday announced new rules to curb misuse of social media platforms, as it mandated firms to appoint grievance officer, disclose the first originator of the mischievous information and remove, within 24 hours, content depicting nudity or morphed pictures of women. Concerns have been raised about rampant abuse of social media […]
Uttarakhand: 136 people missing since a glacier burst in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district earlier this month unleashed an avalanche and flash floods will be declared dead, officials have said. The glacier burst in the upper Himalayas that caused the avalanche and deluge in the Dhauliganga-Alakananda river system washed away a hydroelectric station and five bridges, besides […]
New Delhi: There are more than 7,000 coronavirus mutations in India of which some could pose a serious risk, a senior scientist said on Monday. Rakesh Mishra, Director of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, said among the variants, N440K is spreading a lot more in the […]
Even as the world of social media, and our ministry of external affairs, jumps through hoops over tweets by two “outsiders”, the singer Rihanna and the climate activist Greta Thunberg, on the ongoing farmer protests in India, there are weightier issues that continue to confront this nation. There is, of course, the continuing protest by […]
The protests against farm laws that were hurriedly passed by the Indian government in September pose the most severe challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s authority since he first came to power in 2014. Farmers fear the laws, which the supreme court has now paused, will pave the way for the entry of large corporations into the agricultural […]
Several English and Hindi news platforms on Thursday published reports by news agencies ANI and PTI claiming that the United States had come out “in support of India’s new farm laws saying it welcomes steps that would improve the efficiency of Indian markets and attract greater private sector investment”. Had they bothered reading the statement […]
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday slammed the Centre for not providing cash transfers to the poor in the Union Budget, and said the Modi government was planning to give the country’s assets to a few capitalists. In a tweet after the Budget, he said, “Forget putting cash in the hands of people, […]