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Vinoba Bhave, who played an important role in India’s freedom struggle through non-violent means, has made a great contribution to nation-building. Vinoba Bhave’s original name was Vinayak Narhari Bhave. In the country, he was known as Acharya Vinoba Bhave. He was born on September 11, 1895, in Gagode village in the Colaba district of Maharashtra. […]
Sharad Pawar, the Nationalist Congress Party president, hammered home unadorned truths to the Congress, once his abode, in his latest interview to a Marathi news channel. Pawar, who evokes homegrown imagery to make a political point, compared the Congress to Uttar Pradesh’s zamindars of yore, feudal lords who owned boundless expanses of land, most of which they […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded advocate and vice president of the party’s youth wing in West Bengal, Priyanka Tibrewal. She will shoulder the responsibility of taking on West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee from Bhabanipur assembly constituency in south Kolkata. Bhabanipur is Mamata’s home turf, the seat from which she clinched the throne of […]
IIM Ahmedabad is placed as the best management institute yet again whereas CEPT University has ranked 5th in Architecture which is one position lower than last year. Gujarat National Law University stands at the 6th position in all the law institutes which has climbed up by one spot. National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research […]
The decision of the Gujarat Authority for Advance Ruling levying the GST of over 18 percent on parathas has made restaurant owners furious. The AAR stated that 18 percent GST will be levied on packaged frozen packs of wheat and Malabar paratha. The restaurants are up in arms with the Authority for Advance Ruling (AAR) […]
Cabinet Committee on September 8 approved the procurement of fifty-six C-295MW transport aircraft from Spain’s Airbus Defence and Space for the Indian Air Force. 40 aircraft are to be manufactured in India while 16 will be delivered in flyaway condition from Spain. The press release issued by the Ministry of Defence stated that 16 aircraft […]
The coronavirus pandemic has unravelled many heart-breaking incidents in the country. In Hyderabad, an eight-year-old boy from Hyderabad is driving an e-rickshaw to get food on the table for his family. Many are shocked after spotting a rickshaw driver who wears a school uniform. Gopal Krishna is a third grader and drives an e-rickshaw to […]
Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama decided to revert the working hours for primary schools teachers of government schools. The government, in a circular issued 24 hours ago, had instructed teachers to work an eight-hour shift. But on Wednesday, they revoked the circular and teachers can now go back to their six-hour shift. Earlier, the teachers opposed […]
The Centre informed Supreme Court that it had decided to allow women into the National Defence Academy (NDA) while hearing a petition filed by Kush Kalra against women being denied opportunities to be part of the NDA. “There is good news. The Forces at the highest level and the government has taken a decision last […]
Sajjan Kumar, 19 was stabbed to death by a group of men in Chandigarh for acting as Radha in several religious functions. The victim’s 21-year-old brother named Vishal was also injured during the attack at Ram Darbar on Sept 6. Vishal is being treated at GMCH 32 hospital. Both the brothers used to play Radha […]
Covid-19 vaccination program started with vaccinating the healthcare providers, has now managed to vaccinate more than 28 percent of Indians barring children. Mansukh Mandaviya, the Union Health Minister notified on Tuesday that the Centre is to begin vaccination of children against the Covid-19 in August. He also said that the parliamentary meeting on the subject […]
We hear that Kerala has the highest literacy rate in the country. Malayali people are just as ardent book lovers as Bengali people. In a heart-warming incident, the world-famous author Paolo Coelho has waved a twitter “hello” to the 55-year-old Malayali rickshaw puller and brought international attention to him and Kerala. KA Pradeep, 55, resident […]
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) organised a farmers’ mahapanchayat in Muzzafarnagar on Sunday, September 5, in protest against the farm laws passed by the Union Government in a previous parliamentary session. Thousands of farmers from Uttar Pradesh and neighbouring states attended the event organised by SKM at the Government Inter College ground in Muzaffarnagar. The […]
“I am urging all the villagers of India to not let the Brahmins enter your villages. I will talk to every other community so that we can boycott them. They need to send back to the bank of the Volga River,” said Nand Kumar Baghel, recently in Lucknow. The video immediately went viral on social […]
RSS associated mouthpiece Panchjanya has accused Infosys of acting at the behest of anti-national forces and more, due to the glitches in the new Income Tax portal. Infosys won the contract for the new portal in 2018, and the portal was launched in June. Over two months later, glitches continue to mar the site. The […]
The union social justice minister Ramdas Athawale said that the Patidars in Gujarat cannot be given the Other Backward Classes (OBC) but they can be given reservation in a separate category, during his visit to Ahmedabad. The minister in a press conference “In my opinion they cannot be included in the OBC category, but they […]
Under sections 375 (1) and (2), “wish” and “consent” of a woman are important, but an exception says that it is not a crime if the accused is married to her. Last week, the Chhattisgarh High Court acquitted a man of marital rape and ruled that sexual intercourse between a legally wedded man and a […]
Maruti Suzuki India Ltd will recall over 1,81,754 of its petrol variant cars to look into and rectify faults in their motor-generator unit, said the company on Friday. It will be the second-largest safety action by an automaker in India. Maruti Suzuki, the country’s largest carmaker, will recall more than 1.80 lakh cars due to […]
In a big step away from party diktat that frowns upon questions and allegations against its policies even from outsiders, a Bharatiya Janata Party leader has openly challenged his own party’s scheme. BJP’s Savli MLA Ketan Inamdar has dashed off a letter to Chief Minister Vijay Rupani stating that “genuinely poor” people are being deprived […]
