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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 […]
A national youth movement, Yuva Halla Bol, has announced that it will be using Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday – September 17 – to highlights the many ways in which his government has failed the country’s young people. Modi’s birthday, they have decided, will be celebrated as ‘Jumla Diwas’ – replete with some of the […]
Not so long ago, Priyanka Chaturvedi and Manish Tewari were colleagues. Destiny saw Priyanka Chaturvedi, a brilliant young leader quitting the party in a huff. She joined the ShivSena in Maharashtra and also got nominated as a Rajyasabha MP. Manish Tewari, a young Congress leader who had Sonia Gandhi’s blessings to become the information and […]
In an unusual finding, a tunnel-like structure was discovered at the Delhi Legislative Assembly on Thursday. Delhi Legislative Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel said that the tunnel connects the Legislative Assembly to Red Fort. He added that the British used the tunnel to move freedom fighters without provoking reprisal. Goel further said that when he […]
Aggressive Hindutva is back with more muscle power in Gujarat. That was the takeaway from the first day of the BJP state executive meeting that Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated on Thursday in Kevadia. It was also clear that even though the state Assembly elections are still 16 months away, the BJP has begun […]
Calling the Centre’s National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP), which aims to unlock value in brownfield projects by engaging the private sector, a ‘clearance sale’, the Congress on Thursday hit out at the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and said that the move will wipe out an entire generation’s efforts. Congress party’s spokesperson Pawan Khera lashed out […]
With actor and Big Boss 13 winner Siddharth Shukla’s untimely death on Thursday morning, fans, family and friends of Shukla were left in a state of shock and teary-eyed. At age 40, suffering a massive cardiac arrest shows how fragile our lives could be. Padma Shree recipient and one of the best cardiologists in the […]
The Income Tax Department carried out a search and seizure operation on a manufacturer and distributor of synthetic yarns and polyester chips having a corporate office in Delhi and factories at Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Dahej. During the search operation, many incriminating documents, loose sheets, digital evidences etc. have been found indicating involvement of […]
Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani passed away following a prolonged illness, aged 91, at his residence in Srinagar on Wednesday night. Geelani was a member of the banned organization Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir and later founded his own party named Tehreek-e-Hurriyat. In June 2021, he resigned as the chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference (G) […]
The Delhi high court on Wednesday sought the Union government and Rakesh Asthana’s stand on a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the appointment of the Gujarat-cadre IPS officer as Delhi Police Commissioner. A bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh issued notice on a plea by one Sadre Alam and listed the […]
As yet another MLA leaves the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and joins the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), it seems unlikely that a resolution is in the near future for the party’s internal feud in West Bengal. Many predict that the saffron party is on the verge of extinction. Bagdah MLA, Biswajit Das was the new […]
The International Press Institute (IPI) announced on Wednesday that The Wire has won the 2021 Free Media Pioneer Award, as “a leader in India’s digital news revolution and an unflinching defender of independent, high-quality journalism”. “We are extremely proud to recognise The Wire as this year’s IPI-IMS Free Media Pioneer. The Wire is a leading […]
To mark the 125th birth anniversary of AC Bhaktivedanta Swami, a Kolkata-born spiritual leader and founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), PM Modi will be releasing a 125-rupees coin on Thursday. This move comes after the day of Janmashtami, Lord Krishna’s birthday. A statement from PM Modi’s office stated that he will […]
The EPF benefits for the PF subscribers will be curtailed from Sept 1, Wednesday, if the Aadhaar card of the subscriber is not linked with the PF account. A couple of months ago, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) had postponed the deadline for linking the Aadhaar card with the PF account from June 1, […]
