CHANDIGARH — Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday inaugurated the Kalpana Chawla Centre for Research in Space Science & Technology at Chandigarh University and said that it is an important step towards strengthening the space sector of the country. He also launched a Scholarship Scheme, worth Rs 10 crore, for the wards of Defence Personnel […]
NEW DELHI — Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik has said that Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi was “very arrogant” when he met him to discuss the farmers issues. Malik, while addressing a social function at Dadri in Haryana on Sunday, said, “He was very arrogant. When I told him that 500 of our own farmers […]
NEW DELHI — Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday took a dig at the centre over extension of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Nagaland and termed it as an apt example of “double speak”. In a series of tweets, the former Union Minister wrote, “On the one hand, the MHA (Ministry of […]
UDUPI — Six Muslim girl students of Women’s Government PU College in the town have accused the principal of not allowing them to wear ‘Hijab’ (headscarf) in the classes, the New Indian Express reported. “We are facing discrimination. We are not allowed to talk in Urdu, Arabic and Beary languages,” the students further alleged. The girls boycotted […]
NEW DELHI — A 17-year-old boy was murdered by mob in Delhi’s Uttam Nagar area on Sunday. Three juveniles have been arrested and attempts are underway to nab others. The victim identified as Mohammad Shaukat had shared a reel on Instagram, in which a local criminal named Sohan Lal Kashyap was abused. According to his […]
KOHIMA — The controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act 1958 (AFSPA), which gives sweeping powers to armed forces, has been extended for another six months in Nagaland, where the army is conducting a court of inquiry into the killing of 14 civilians. The move came days after the Government of India (GoI) constituted a high-level […]
NEW DELHI — Actor Naseeruddin Shah has said those calling for a genocide of Muslims are in effect calling for a full-scale civil war. In an interview to The Wire seeking his opinion on the genocide calls, Shah told Karan Thapar: “I wonder if these people know what they are talking about. What they are […]
LUCKNOW — Probe has been ordered after well-known poet Akbar Allahabadi has been mentioned as ‘Akbar Prayagraji after the name of Allahabad was changed to Prayagraj by the Yogi Adityanath government, three years ago, IANS reported. The name of the poet as Akbar Prayagraji appeared on the website of the Uttar Pradesh Higher Education Service […]
NEW DELHI — The Congress on Tuesday slammed the Centre for refusing to renew FCRA registration of Nobel Laureate Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity over “some adverse inputs”. “Nothing can be more shocking than denying future foreign contributions to the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, West Bengal. This is the greatest insult to the memory […]
NEW DELHI — Protesting against the Hindu right-wing or ‘Dharam Sansad’ held in Uttarakhand’s Haridwar earlier this month, student groups, activists and civil society members collected outside the Uttarakhand Sadan in Delhi on Monday (December 27). Following political outrage and pressure over the event, the police in Uttarakhand booked Jitendra Narayan Tyagi, earlier known as […]