New Delhi, 14/11: Terming forced religious conversion a “very serious” issue, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to step in and make sincere efforts to check the practice. It also warned a “very difficult situation” will emerge if forced religious conversions are not stopped. A bench of Justices M R Shah and Hima…
Sydney, 2/9: Australia’s white-ball pace spearhead Mitchell Starc has retired from Twenty20 internationals to extend his career in test and one-day cricket. The 35-year-old left-armer retires with 79 wickets from 65 T20Is, second on the all-time list for Australia behind spinner Adam Zampa. “Test cricket is and has always been my highest priority,” he said…
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…
Bhubaneswar, July 8: Panel discussions, simulations, demonstrations, lectures, counseling and group activities marked a six- day workshop on implementation of the national health program in the country which commenced at the SUM Nursing College, faculty of nursing of SOA Deemed to be University here, on Monday. The workshop, an initiative of the M.Sc. (Nursing) first…
New Delhi, 16/2: Conman Sukesh Chandrashekar was arrested by ED on Thursday in another case of extortion and money laundering, ANI reported. Sukesh has been arrested for allegedly duping ex-Religare promotor Malvinder Singh’s wife Japna Singh of Rs 3.5 crore. Delhi’s Patiala House Court has sent him to nine-day ED remand.
BSP supremo Mayawati on Monday charged that the Samajwadi Party was contemptuous of great men born among Dalits and backwards and said these communities should not expect anything from Akhilesh Yadav’s party. The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister also said that the names of many institutions and schemes were changed in the state due…
Bengaluru, 31/10: The Congress government was forced to clarify that the flagship ‘guarantee’ schemes will be not be axed even as the party’s supremo Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday publicly pulled up Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar for saying that thethe popular ‘Shakti’ programme will be revisited. Looking at your (Karnataka’s) five guarantees, I have…
Madurai, 30/9: Three schools in Tamil Nadu’s Madurai received bomb threats through e-mails on Monday. The schools are Kendriya Vidyalaya, Jeevana School, and Velammal Vidyalaya, as reported by ANI. Police and bomb disposal squads have reached the spots and investigation is under way.
Telengana, 10/5: Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his rally in Telangana on Sunday emphasised that the Centre is trying to shield people from the adverse impact of ongoing war in West Asia, as he called for measures by citizens to overcome the resulting challenges. While speaking in Hyderabad, the PM said that the prices of…
Mumbai, 8/5: An editorial in Shiv Sena (UBT)’s mouthpiece Saamana that NCP supremo Sharad Pawar failed to groom a successor has sparked off a war of words within the Maha Vikas Aghadi, the anti-BJP coalition of Maharashtra. The NCP and Congress slammed Saamana editor and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut, who is a close aide…
