Slamming India for backing former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina, chief adviser Muhammad Yunus said on Wednesday that Dhaka’s ties with New Delhi are strained also because India didn’t like last year’s student protests that led to her ouster. “They (India) are hosting Hasina who created all these problems and killed young people,” Yunus said during…
NEW DELHI: The Union home ministry cancelled Thursday the licence issued under Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 to Ladakh activist Sonam Wangchuk‘s NGO, Students Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh, over alleged violations. Wangchuk had alleged that the govt was building a case to put him behind bars.The cancellation came hours after MHA attributed Wednesday’s…
NEW DELHI: IRS officer and former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director Sameer Wankhede has filed a defamation suit in Delhi high court against the makers of the Netflix drama series ‘The Ba***ds of Bollywood’.The suit filed on Thursday seeks an injunction and Rs 2 crore in damages for misleading and negative portrayal of anti-drug…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has said that criminal law cannot become a platform for initiation of vindictive proceedings to settle personal scores and vendettas, and derided the increasing resort to lodging of FIRs to settle civil disputes.While quashing an FIR lodged more than two decades ago for the offence of cheating in a land transaction…
NEW DELHI: Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan, a seasoned BJP campaigner and prominent OBC neta with extensive organisational experience, will be in charge of the party’s campaign for the Bihar elections likely in November. He will be assisted by Union water resources minister and Gujarat BJP chief C R Patil and UP deputy chief minister Keshav…
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu energy secretary Beela Venkatesan died of cancer in Chennai on Wednesday. She was 56.Beela was state health secretary during the Covid pandemic. A doctor by profession, Beela was a 1997 batch IAS officer. Her father Venkatesan was a retired IPS officer, and her mother Rani Venkatesan was a former MLA from Sathankulam…
Bengal has the highest proportion of children aged 5-9 years with high triglycerides, a whopping 67%, followed by northeastern states of Sikkim (64.6%), Assam (57%), Nagaland (55.5%) and Manipur (54.7%), as per a report, Children in India, 2025, released on Thursday. Interestingly, the state with the lowest proportion of 5-9-year-old children with high triglycerides was…
NEW DELHI: Dubbing India’s “silence” on the issue of Palestine as abdication of humanity and morality, Congress’ Sonia Gandhi said Modi govt’s actions in the wake of Israel’s “genocide” are dictated by “personal friendship” between Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and PM Modi, and not by India’s constitutional values or strategic interests.In a media article, Sonia…
NEW DELHI: Poverty or poor financial condition is the most dominant driver of child marriage, according to a new report, citing responses by 91% respondents. It, however, noted that there has been a decline in cases at village level over past three years. Out of 757 villages across 15 districts in Bihar, Rajasthan, Assam, Karnataka…
Mallikarjun Kharge (File photo) NEW DELHI: After aggressive advocacy of caste census, removal of 50% ceiling on reservations and private sector quota, Congress has asserted its new branding as a “social justice” platform by slamming UP govt’s ban on caste-based political rallies.In a little-noticed statement, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, at a CWC meet in Patna,…
