KANPUR: A Muslim man was assaulted in the public and allegedly asked to chant “Jai Shri Ram” even as his minor daughter tried to save him, said police here on Thursday. A one-minute video of the incident surfaced on social media on Wednesday. The 45-year-old man is seen being assaulted by some men, who ask […]
New Delhi: Government accommodation is meant for serving officials and not retirees as a “benevolence” and distribution of largesse, the Supreme Court has said while setting aside an order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court allowing a retired public servant to retain such premises. Right to shelter does not mean right to government accommodation, […]
NEW DELHI: India logged 38,353 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,20,36,511, while the active cases have declined to 3,86,351, the lowest in 140 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The death toll has climbed to 4,29,179 with 497 fresh fatalities, the data updated at […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that the country’s economic growth is picking up pace again and the domestic industry needs to enhance its risk-taking appetite. He also said that taking reforms is a matter of conviction for the government, which is ready to take all risks in the national interest. “We […]
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday slammed the government over media reports that India lost Rs 406 crore worth grains due to damage during storage in state-run granaries in the last three years, saying “wasting food is equivalent to stealing from the poor”. In a post on Instagram, the former Congress chief shared […]
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Wednesday said the new system of mentioning cases for urgent hearing before apex court officials instead of its benches directly has been put in place to ensure that senior lawyers are not given “special priority” over their junior colleagues. “We do not want to give any special priority to the […]
NEW DELHI: The Scheduled Caste (SC) department of the Congress will hold a protest on Thursday over the alleged rise in “atrocities” against Dalits and non-implementation of measures to protect them by the BJP-led central government. In a statement, the Congress’ SC department chairman Nitin Raut alleged that the Modi government has been slashing allocations […]
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday took exception to parallel debates on social media and websites by some petitioners, who have filed pleas seeking an independent probe into the alleged Pegasus snooping matter, and said they should observe discipline. A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana said the apex court is not […]
NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday strongly advised all its citizens residing in Afghanistan to make immediate travel arrangements to return home before commercial air services are discontinued from the country in view of massive spike in violence. In a fresh advisory, the Indian embassy in Kabul also advised the Indian companies operating in Afghanistan to […]
NEW DELHI: The Census 2021 exercise, when carried out, will enumerate only those SCs and STs that were notified through the constitutional orders of 1950, the government informed Parliament on Tuesday. Union Minister Nityanand Rai said this in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha on whether the government is planning to […]