Kolkata,, 29/7: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday said Rs 296.64 crore has been transferred through netbanking to 80,375 government, aided and sponsored schools in the state for their developmental works. He said that as a pilot project, ISKCON would provide midday meals to schools in a large part of Kolkata from August…
New Delhi, 29/7: Ambaram Meghwal has finally succeeded in stirring the administration up from slumber after 55 days of silent protest in Barmer, which is about 800km from Delhi — the epicentre of the youth protest against a corrupt education system. Meghwal, who is in his sixties, endured the heat and rain to protest against…
New Delhi, 29/7: The Lok Sabha witnessed heated exchanges on Wednesday after Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi accused Union Home Minister Amit Shah of authorising police action against students protesting at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, prompting sharp protests from the BJP led NDA members.The Home Minister ordered the shooting of our students,” Rahul said in…
Mumbai, 29/7: Nearly three years after Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy sparked a nationwide debate by urging young Indians to work 70 hours a week, the Bengaluru-headquartered IT giant has run into trouble in France, not for making employees work long hours,but for allegedly failing to properly record them. Infosys has been fined €175,000…
New Delhi, 29/7: The Lok Sabha passed the anti-paper leak amendment Bill on Wednesday (July 29), while introducing tougher penalties of up to 10 years’ jail and a Rs 50 lakh fine, amid sloganeering by opposition parties.The Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026, was introduced in the House by Union Minister Jitendra…
New Delhi, 29/7: The Supreme Court on Wednesday closed a criminal case against former prime minister Manmohan Singh in a coal block allocation case while setting aside a summoning order passed against him A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana accepted the CBI’s closure report giving a clean…
Mumbai, 29/7: The food business licences of some of the notable dining spaces in Mumbai were suspended due to poor hygiene and unacceptable cooking conditions. The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took action against five clubs including the Cricket Club of India and MIG Cricket Club in Bandra When officials inspected the CCI kitchen,…
Kumamoto, 28/7: Rescuers were frantically searching on Wednesday for survivors of a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that shook southern Japan, killing at least 13 people, knocking out power to thousands of homes and rupturing roads across the region. Eight people were pulled alive from the rubble of a partially collapsed shopping mall near the city of Kumamoto…
Kumamoto, 29/7: Rescuers were frantically searching on Wednesday for survivors of a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that shook southern Japan, killing at least 13 people, knocking out power to thousands of homes and rupturing roads across the region. Eight people were pulled alive from the rubble of a partially collapsed shopping mall near the city of Kumamoto…
New Delhi, 28/7: CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke and national spokesperson Saurav Das on Tuesday expressed doubts over the government’s assurance of not taking action against the protesters, and threatened to recall the nationwide protest. This comes after the Supreme Court’s order which they claimed permits the government to proceed with the existing FIRs
