Bangalore, 18/2: As the row over the hijab ban intensified, the state government has silently set out to collect data of students belonging to the minority community from both private and government educational institutions, especially those enrolled in classes 1 to 10. According to the data accessed from the Department of Public Instruction…
Kolkata, 17/2: TMC leader was stabbed to death at a market in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district on Thursday morning, following which locals caught one of the assailants and lynched him on the spot, police said. Noorsalam Baig, 45, was stabbed to death by three persons in the Sarisha Haat area, around 30 km…
Kolkata, 17/2: Team India is leading 1-0 in the three-match T20 series. The second match of the series is to be held tomorrow i.e. on February 18. In this match too, it is difficult for senior Iyer i.e. Shreyas Iyer to get a chance. Recently, the IPL team KKR has made him its captain. Captain…
Bangalore, 17/2: In further hardening of the stand, the Karnataka government on Thursday issued a circular which says that wearing of hijab is not permitted in minority institutions run under the state government. Secretary for Minority Welfare, Haj and Wakf Department Major P Manivannan stated that, the interim order of the full bench…
Patna, 17/2: A complaint was lodged in a court here on Thursday against Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi for his alleged “insulting” remark about “bhaiyas” from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The petition was filed in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur, by social activist Tamanna Hashmi, who has claimed that the comment…
Bhubaneswar, 17/2: In a big development, Biju Janata Dal delegation met State Election Commission today with memorandum on massive electoral violence in Odisha by Odisha BJP leaders and workers unleashed against the Biju Janata Dal leaders and workers in the 3-tier ongoing Panchayat election. They further requested the State Election Commission to take strong action…
Beijing, 17/2: Beijing has reacted for the first time to the issue of India banning 54 Chinese apps for security reasons. Expressing serious concern over this action, China has said that it expects India to treat all foreign investors, including Chinese companies, in a transparent, fair and non-discriminatory manner. Chinese Commerce Ministry spokesman Gao…
UP, 17/2: For the first time after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Samajwadi Party founder and patron Mukayam Singh Yadav entered the fray for campaigning after nearly three years. On Thursday, he sought votes for his son and SP’s national president Akhilesh Yadav from the Karhal seat of Mainpuri. During this, he said that after…
UP, 17/2: Local legend has it that the village of Swaheri in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor district was entirely a Muslim village till the middle of the 18th Century, a period during which Nawab Najib-ud-Daulah of Najibabad was a powerful figure in the region. During that period, a military rival of the Nawab sought the assistance…
Padampur,17/2: In a major development, Dinabandhu Panda, Tax Collector at N.A.C., Padampur, Dist- Bargarh has been apprehended by Odisha Vigilance while demanding and accepting bribe Rs.25,000/- (Rupees. Twenty five thousand ) from complainant for transfer of holding number and reduction of annual holding tax in respect of purchased building in the name of the Complainant….
