Kottayam: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday expressed his strong disapproval of attempts to ridicule other religions and create dissensions in the society, saying every person has the right to practice and preach his or her faith in the country. “Practice your religion but don’t abuse and indulge in hate speech and writings,” the […]
NEW DELHI: India has sought an emergency meeting of the General Council of the World Trade Organization (WTO) this month in Geneva to deliberate upon the world trade body’s proposed response package, including patent waiver proposal, to deal with the pandemic amid rising coronavirus infections globally, an official said. The General Council is WTO’s highest […]
NEW DELHI: The Centre requested the Supreme Court on Monday to schedule a hearing in a matter related to the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) quota in connection with the NEET-PG admissions on Tuesday, citing “some urgency”. A bench of justices DY Chandrachud and AS Bopanna told Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who mentioned the matter before […]
New Delhi: Union Education Minister and Skill Development Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched NEAT 3.0, a single platform to provide the best-developed ed-tech solutions and courses to students of the country. The Minister also launched AICTE prescribed technical books in regional languages. Speaking on the occasion Shri Pradhan said that NEAT will be a game-changer in […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Manipur and Tripura on Tuesday to inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of several development projects in the two states. The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said on Sunday that he will launch 22 projects worth Rs 4,800 crore in Imphal while in Agartala, he will inaugurate the […]
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “break the silence” over Chinese “incursions” in the Galwan region of eastern Ladakh. The opposition party has been targeting the Modi government over its handling of Chinese incursions in eastern Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh. “Our tricolour looks good at Galwan. There […]
NEW DELHI: After Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “arrogant”, senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge asked on Monday whether Malik’s remarks were true. Kharge also shared a video clip on Twitter of Malik from a function at Charkhi Dadri in Haryana, where he is saying that when he went […]
NEW DELHI: India’s vaccination programme against COVID-19 has been one of the most successful and largest in the world, the Union health ministry said on Sunday and termed as misleading some media reports that claimed the country has missed its COVID-19 inoculation targets. Since the start of the national COVID-19 vaccination drive on January 16 […]
DIG noted arrests were possible if probe led to concrete evidence DEHRADUN: A special investigation team was constituted on Sunday to look into the recently held Dharma Sansad in Haridwar where hate speeches were allegedly delivered by some participants. A five-member SIT has been set up to probe the matter, Garhwal DIG K.S. Nagnyal said. […]
NEW DELHI: The Centre has told the Supreme Court that it has decided to accept the recommendation of a three-member panel to retain the current gross annual family income limit for Economically Weaker Section (EWS) of Rs 8 lakh or less. In its affidavit filed in a matter related to admissions for NEET-PG, the Centre […]