Chandigarh, 16/12: The Punjab and Haryana High Court has observed that merely because two adults are living together for a few days, their claim of a live-in relationship based upon a “bald averment” may not be enough to hold that they are truly in a live-in-relationship. Justice Manoj Bajaj observed that it has to…
Kolkata, 16/10:National Rifle shooter player Konika Layak (26), a resident of Dhanbad, Jharkhand, has committed suicide by hanging herself in Kolkata. The entire sports world is shocked by this. Konika was the daughter of Partho Layak, a resident of Anugrah Nagar of Dhansar. She was taking training for the last 1 year at the camp…
New Delhi, 16/12: The Centre on Wednesday passed a proposal to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years, matching the norm for men. The government will introduce an amendment to the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, and amendments to the Special Marriage Act and personal laws…
New Delhi, 16/12: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid tributes to the soldiers martyred in the 1971 war with Pakistan at the National War Memorial. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh was also present with him on this occasion. As a result of this war, a new nation was created in the form of Bangladesh separate…
Kolkata, 16/12:West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday asserted that the BJP will be defeated across the country in the next Lok Sabha polls due in 2024, and claimed that the saffron party would face similar drubbing that it had tasted in the last assembly polls in the state. While addressing a…
New Delhi,16/12: The United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), the apex body of 9 organizations of bank employees, has announced a two-day strike on 16 and 17 December 2021. The United Forum has called for a nationwide strike (National wide bank strike on 16 & 17 Dec 2021). Let us inform that this strike has…
Kerala, 15/12: The introduction of gender-neutral uniform at a government school in Kerala has triggered a row with a section opposing it. Government higher secondary school at Balussery in Kozhikode district in North Kerala introduced the gender-neutral uniform. Shirts and trousers have been made the uniform for both boys and girls in higher…
Washington DC, 15/12: Tech giant Google has reportedly told its employees that they will lose pay — and will eventually be fired — if they do not comply with the company’s Covid-19 vaccination policy. According to internal documents viewed by CNBC, employees had until December 3 to declare their vaccination status and upload documentation…
Bhubaneswar, : Methods to maintain mental balance while handling responsibility in a stressful atmosphere were underlined at a program conducted for CRPF jawans here on Monday. Professor Dr. Subhendu Narayan Mishra, Visiting Consultant Psychiatrist at SUM Ultimate Medicare (SUMUM), spoke to a gathering of more than 600 jawans providing them tips as to how they…
Bhubaneswar: As part of its bid to empower women and make them self-reliant, Aditya Birla Group’s Hindalco’s Hirakud unit in Odisha has launched a host of programmes including tailoring training through Project Preranato local girls in and around its plant periphery. The Sambalpur-based unit imparts tailoring training under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives in…
