GANDHINAGAR: Hindi must move beyond being a spoken or administrative tongue and take root in science, technology, judiciary and police to deepen public connection, home minister Amit Shah said Sunday at the fifth Akhil Bharatiya Rajbhasha Sammelan.“Hindi is not just a spoken language or a language of administration. Hindi should also be the language of…
BHUBANESWAR: On April 22, Priyadarshini Satpathy from Odisha’s Balasore lost her husband, Prashant, to terrorists’ bullets in Pahalgam. Less than five months later, India taking on Pakistan in Dubai Sunday felt like salt in her wounds, she said. “If not for us, the match should have been cancelled in memory of jawans who are sacrificing…
Community protests Harjit Kaur’s detention (Photo obtained by ABC7News) A 73-year-old Punjabi grandmother who has lived in the Bay Area for more than three decades has been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), leaving her family and community in disbelief.Harjit Kaur, a seamstress from Hercules, California, had been complying with immigration check-ins every…
Elon Musk has responded to an online exchange about the shooting death of activist Charlie Kirk. The conversation began when Will Chamberlain, a senior counsel for the Article 3 Project, tweeted “No unity. Victory.” in response to a post that celebrated the death of Kirk and called for the death of his wife. Musk then…
NEW DELHI: Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh on Sunday attacked the Modi govt on the Great Nicobar mega infrastructure project, saying it was “bulldozing this ecological disaster of a project through” even though environmental clearances have been challenged in courts.On Aug 18, 2022, Andaman and Nicobar Islands administration – controlled by union home ministry –…
LUCKNOW: Can one person work in six different districts in the same department at the same time?“Arpit Singh” did just that for nine years in Uttar Pradesh’s health department. The astonishing scam was uncovered only after an online verification drive by UP govt’s Manav Sampada portal flagged six impostors – all using the same name,…
NEW DELHI: Southwest (summer) monsoon started withdrawing from some parts of west Rajasthan Sunday against the normal date of Sept 17, IMD said. Normally, the withdrawal process ends on Oct 15 – a few days ahead of onset of winter monsoon in Peninsular India.It’s the earliest withdrawal of monsoon since 2015, when the retreat began…
NEW DELHI: Reiterating that a doctor cannot be charged with medical negligence simply because a patient does not respond favourably to treatment, the Supreme Court has granted relief to a doctor who was held responsible for death of a woman post childbirth.A bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and Satish Chandra Sharma said a patient’s not…
NAVI MUMBAI: Rabale police have filed an FIR following a road rage case in which the helper of a cement mixer was kidnapped by a person driving an SUV which brushed past the vehicle on Mulund-Airoli road on Saturday evening.DCP (zone 1) Pankaj Dahane said the SUV was in the name of Puja Automobiles, which…
JAIPUR: The political war of words over the installation of additional cameras inside Rajasthan assembly intensified Sunday with state education minister Madan Dilawar accusing Congress state chief Govind Singh Dotasra of being the leader of a “characterless gang”.Dilawar’s jibe came a day after Dotasra alleged that Speaker Vasudev Devnani was surveilling Congress’ women legislators by…
