New Delhi, 11/5: The Ministry of Education on Wednesday issued guidelines to schools for combating heatwave, asking them to relax the uniform norms and modify timings. A torrid heatwave had sent the mercury soaring across large swathes of India with the temperature in Delhi rising to 46 degrees Celsius. The national capital also…
New Delhi, 11/5With the Opposition targeting the Centre after the Supreme Court put on hold the application of sedition law, the BJP on Wednesday said the order must be viewed in the context of the overall positive suggestion of the government that it wishes to examine the matter which has been “duly accepted” by the…
Mumbai, 11/5: Morgan Stanley has lowered its forecasts for India’s economic growth in the next two fiscal years, saying a global slowdown, surging oil prices and weak domestic demand would take a toll on Asia’s third-largest economy. Gross domestic product growth will be 7.6 per cent for fiscal 2023 and 6.7 per cent…
Mumbai, 11/5: Union minister Ramdas Athawale has said that Amravati MP Navneet Rana, who was booked for sedition along with her MLA husband, is a Dalit and injustice was meted out to her by the MVA government out of “vendetta politics”. Interacting with media persons in Delhi on Tuesday night, the Minister of State…
New Delhi, 11/5:The Delhi High Court delivered a split verdict in the marital rape case. The two-judge bench delivered the much-awaited verdict on criminalising marital rape on Wednesday with Justice Rajiv Shakdher upholding the exemption to husband from offence of marital rape as unconstitutional while Justice Hari Shankar arguing that the exemption is constitutional….
New Delhi, 11/5: The Supreme Court on Wednesday put a hold on the colonial-era legislation till the Centre re-examines its provisions. Announcing its order on the validity of the law on Wednesday, the apex court urged Centre and states to refrain from registering any FIRs invoking Section 124A IPC. “Should such cases be…
New Delhi, 11/5: Severe Cyclone Asani weakened to a cyclonic storm on Wednesday as it barrelled towards north coastal Andhra Pradesh and came within 34 km of Narsapur in the state, packing wind speed of 85 km per hour and bringing heavy rains to the region, the weather office said here. The weather system…
New Delhi, 11/5: A panel drafting structural changes in Congress is suggesting a “time-bound review” of party constitution where it envisages the possibility of state committees having separate constitutions. The suggestion was made by a nine-member committee on organisational issues headed by Mukul Wasnik in which senior leaders Ajay Maken, Tariq Anwar, Ramesh Chennithala,…
Dehradun, 10/5: The police have intensified inspections of railway and bus stations across Uttarakhand after a letter threatening to blow up six railway stations in the state was received recently, officials said on Tuesday. The letter was sent to the superintendent of Roorkee railway station on Saturday. The letter, which was written by…
Bhubaneswar,10/5: Chief Secretary Sri Suresh Chandra Mahapatra along with Development Commissioner and Special Relief Commision Sri Pradeep Kumar Jena participated in the National Executive Committe meeting held under Chairmanship of Secretary Ministry of Home Affairs, Sri Ajaya Kumar Bhalla over video conferencing today. Secretary Sri Bhalla reviewed the preparedness of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha to…
