Families of the two hostages at Imphal police station for their handover GUWAHATI: Two Meitei men held hostage by tribal Kuki village volunteers in Manipur‘s Kangpokpi for five days were freed Thursday in a purported exchange involving “safe passage” till their native district for 11 undertrial Kuki prisoners, all of whom got bail a couple…
BENGALURU/NEW DELHI: Karnataka health minister Dinesh Gundu Rao‘s remarks on Hindutva ideologue and freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, claiming that Savarkar consumed meat and was not opposed to cow slaughter have sparked outrage across political circles. The controversy erupted on Thursday, a day after Rao’s comments during the launch of the Kannada version of ‘Gandhi’s…
NEW DELHI: Seeking to avoid duplication and ensure better implementation, govt on Thursday approved rationalisation of all agri-related centrally sponsored schemes into two umbrella schemes, having 18 components, with total proposed expenditure of over 1 lakh crore.One of the umbrella schemes – PM Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (PM-RKVY) – will promote sustainable agriculture, while the…
BENGALURU: Police on Thursday arrested a Pakistani couple and detained their daughter, 17, in a crackdown on foreigners living illegally in Bengaluru under assumed Hindu names. Police seized 3 mobiles, Aadhaar cards, passports, a PAN card, and two voter IDs – all obtained using fake documents.Syed Tariq, 53, and his wife Anila, 48, were arrested,…
NEW DELHI: Government is working on guidelines for films and serials shown on OTT (Over the Top) which will require the platforms to “beep out profanity and blur explicit scenes,” sources said. The proposed guidelines are likely to ask for alternative ways of depicting scenes, intimate relationships and changing clothes, besides insisting on toning down…
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…
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: 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…
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…
