NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu Sunday lamented the fact that poor people from villages are afraid of going to court and become participants in the justice process only under great compulsion. ”Often they tolerate injustice silently because they feel that fighting for justice can make their lives more miserable. For them, going away from the […]
NEW DELHI: A plea has been filed before the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of certain amendments introduced in the Constitution for implementing Goods and Services Tax (GST), which will be heard by a bench headed by CJI D.Y. Chandrachud on Monday. Earlier in April this year, the Patna High Court had dismissed a writ […]
NEW DELHI: Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf is currently in the news in Uttar Pradesh these days as an enemy property registered in the name of one of his relatives is set to be auctioned in Kotana village on September 5. Kotana village holds significance as it was not only the maternal home of the […]
NEW DELHI: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) today extended the last date for submission of application (except certificate and semester-based programmes) to September 10. Interested students can apply for these programmes at the official IGNOU website — ignouadmission.samarth.edu.in. For online courses, candidates will have to visit the other official website — ignouiop.samarth.edu.in. “Extension […]
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court will on September 2 take up the legality of authorities using bulldozers to demolish houses belonging to people accused of crime, with two fresh applications moved on Friday seeking urgent listing. The bench of Justice B.R. Gavai and Justice K.V. Viswanathan, before which the matter was mentioned for urgent hearing, […]
NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Janata Dal leader and former Bihar deputy Chief Minister, Tejashwi Yadav has said that his party will hold an agitation on September 1, demanding the inclusion of the findings of the caste survey, conducted in 2023, in under Schedule 9 of the Constitution. Tejashwi said that he would join the protest that […]
BENGALURU: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Saturday said the ‘Raj Bhavan Chalo’ was organised by the Congress party to protest against the alleged misuse of the office of the Governor. Shivakumar, who is the Congress Karnataka unit president, said the march is mainly to ensure that Raj Bhavan should not become the […]
NEW DELHI: Scientists from the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism (IIG), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology, have decoded how the weak crustal magnetic field on Mars controls the Red Planet’s ionosphere. The finding made using data from NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) satellite may help in future space missions. […]
GUWAHATI: The Assam Legislative Assembly has made a significant change by discontinuing the long-standing practice of adjourning sessions on Fridays to allow Muslim members to offer Namaz. This tradition, which dates back to 1946, was initially introduced under the speakership of Sayed Sadullah. For decades, the Assembly would break from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM […]
NEW DELHI: Praising the achievement of India’s banking sector for making financial services accessible to millions and driving economic growth, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said there was a time when in rural areas, it used to take more than a day to access a banking service but today, banks have gone to every […]