The SCO Tianjin Declaration strongly condemned the April 22 Pahalgam terrorist attack saying that the perpetrators, organisers and sponsors of such attacks must be brought to justice. Without naming Pakistan, PM Narendra Modi in his address warned member-states against double standards on terrorism and questioned if the open support for terrorism by certain countries can…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Monday rebuffed political parties’ clamour for a directive to EC to accept Aadhaar card as standalone proof of citizenship to enable people to enroll in the Bihar voter list prepared after special intensive revision (SIR) and said the status of Aadhaar cannot be enhanced beyond what has been laid down in…
Mumbai: Educational institutions in and around Azad Maidan, Fort, will remain closed or shift to online classes on Monday as the Maratha reservation protest enters its fourth day.Sonal Parmar, principal of the Cathedral and John Connon School, said classes would be conducted online on Monday. The JB Petit High School for Girls informed parents via…
India started their CAFA Cup campaign with a win against Tajikistan Khalid Jamil is not a fan of statistics, so it’s hardly a surprise that he was unaware of him being the first Indian coach since Sukhwinder Singh in 2001 to win his opening game in-charge of the national team.India’s 2-1 win against Tajikistan in…
Kolkata: Sumit Mazumder, former national president of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and former chairman of TIL Ltd, passed away at his residence in Kolkata on Sunday. He was 77 and is survived by his wife, Manzu Majumder.A graduate of St Xavier’s College, Kolkata, Mazumder earned a Master’s in Business Administration from Sam Houston State…
NEW DELHI: The 15th finance commission envisaged 17,000 anganwadis cum creches (AWCCs) by 2025-26. Only 2,448 AWCCs (less than 15%) have been made operational till the end of July with over 52,000 beneficiaries.According to government data, nearly 9 crore children (0-6 years) were enrolled in anganwadis. Barely 0.06% of them have access to creche facilities….
LONDON: A group of Hindu organisations in Leicester has filed a police complaint against Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), UK’s largest Muslim umbrella organisation, for allegedly stoking religious disharmony by claiming that saffron flags are “extremist”.A Ganesh Chaturthi car procession in Leicester last week featured two cars bearing saffron flags.In a statement issued on Aug…
Nashik: State govt has initiated a survey to include Nashik and Nagpur in the second phase of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) project.The first phase of the DMIC project, which began approximately a decade ago, included the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Dighi port industrial areas in Maharashtra. Despite being part of the original plan, Nashik…
NEW DELHI: Amid continuing uproar over the Great Nicobar Project, Congress MP Manickam Tagore on Monday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his urgent intervention to protect the constitutional and legal rights of the Nicobarese tribes that are “threatened” by the Rs 72,000-crore infrastructure scheme. He urged the PM to direct the Union ministries…
KOLKATA: The court cannot be a mute spectator to the misuse of protective provisions like Section 498A of IPC, the Calcutta High Court held while dismissing a 498A case against a man but refusing to quash a rape case against him by the same woman in another police station, considering seriousness of the allegation.“The mere…
