NEW DELHI: Union cabinet on Thursday approved granting classical language status to Assamese, Bengali, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit. The decision was taken in a meeting chaired by PM Narendra Modi.The classical language category was first created on Oct 12, 2004, when Tamil was declared a classical language. Subsequently, Sanskrit, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Odia were…
NEW DELHI: CJI D Y Chandrachud on Thursday took strong exception to a plea made by an advocate asking for some change in a court order which had not been signed by judges.As the lawyer pleaded for modification in the order dictated in an arbitration matter, a bench headed by the CJI asked how come…
NEW DELHI: Holding that segregation of prisoners in barracks on the basis of caste and allocation of work among them based on their their place in caste hierarchy was discriminatory and amounted to forced labour, Supreme Court on Thursday ordered an end to all such practices and granted three months to states and Union Territories…
MUMBAI: Earlier this week, the poll-bound Mahayuti govt cleared a subsidy of Rs 50 per cow daily for desi cows housed in registered gaushalas (cow shelters). The scheme will cost the severely cash-strapped state Rs 230 crore per year. Significantly, the payout is higher than the daily subsidy given to cows in cattle shelters in…
NEW DELHI: As it gets deeper into India with generative AI platform Gemini and other suite of digital offerings, Google has taken up a new task in hand – reviving some of the lost Indian languages and creating digital records and online footprint for them. The idea is to enable people to easily carry out…
Prince Harry was briefly in the UK to attend a charity event but there was no meeting among the royals though King Charles apparently misses his darling boy and pines to meet him. It is Prince William who is adamant on banning Harry, Fox News reported.On September 30, Prince Harry attended the 2024 WellChild Awards…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi presided over a meeting of the cabinet committee on security to address the recent eruption of hostilities in West Asia, according to PTI sources.The meeting reportedly focused on the implications of the conflict on trade and the supply of petroleum products.India expressed grave concern regarding the escalation of the…
Mysuru/Bengaluru: Two days after BM Parvathi, wife of chief minister Siddaramaiah, voluntarily returned the 14 sites she received as compensation for land lost in Kesare, Mysore Urban Development Authority (Muda) officially reclaimed eight of those sites. Ownership was transferred back to Muda through cancellation of sale deeds.Some 24,000sqft of the total 38,000sqft of land Muda…
Meerut: A 96-year-old farmer, Balbeer Singh from Sisauli village, staged a protest at Partapur police station in Meerut on Thursday, threatening to end his life over farmers’ demands. Singh, a former associate of late Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Mahendra Singh Tikait, arrived on a bicycle with cow dung cakes, built a pyre and has…
Fuel tanks at the edge of a miltary airstrip on Diego Garcia, largest island in the Chagos archipelago. (Reuters Image) NEW DELHI: India played a quiet yet significant contribution in the historic transfer of the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands from the United Kingdom to Mauritius. According to ANI sources, India had steadfastly and unwaveringly…
