NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday extended birthday greetings to veteran BJP leader and former Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani and lauded his contributions to the country and the party.Taking to X, PM Modi said that the 98th birth anniversary of Advani is even more special as he was conferred Bharat Ratna…
Medical colleges figure disproportionately in the list of complaints to UGC’s anti-ragging cell, but anti-ragging activists complain that the complaints don’t always lead to action. They cite the complaint filed by first year students of JLN Medical College in Raipur about being forced to tonsure their heads and being slapped and physically harassed in the…
MUMBAI: Indian philanthropists donated a total of Rs 8,783 crore in FY24, just 4% higher than the Rs 8,445 crore given in FY23 and a 55% jump from Rs 5,623 crore in FY22, according to the EdelGive-Hurun India Philanthropy List 2024. Shiv Nadar retained the ‘India’s Most Generous’ title for 2024, donating Rs 2,153 crore…
NEW DELHI: The Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board of India has proposed that authorities permit registration of properties owned by real estate companies facing insolvency action – a move that will benefit lakhs of homebuyers who have taken possession of apartments or houses where occupancy or completion certificates have been issued.It has cited two rulings –…
NEW DELHI: With stubble burning likely to peak in the next few days, the environment ministry has doubled the penalty for burning paddy crop residue by farmers. The revised fines range from Rs 5,000 to Rs 30,000 per incidence, depending on the size of the offender’s farm.The revised penalty will be imposed on violators with…
MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: India called out Canada for what it described as Ottawa’s “hypocrisy” on freedom of speech in blocking a publication based in Australia – Australia Today – that highlighted foreign minister S Jaishankar’s remarks against Canada this week in Canberra. The govt also said Canada had not…
NEW DELHI: IAF, Navy and Coast Guard have initiated the process to scrap their agreements with cab aggregator Uber as a precautionary step after some cyber security experts red-flagged the risks of potential data exposure and location tracking of military personnel and their families using the service. IAF on Oct 18 signed an agreement with…
NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi dubbed Devendra Fadnavis’s controversial comments about his brandishing a copy of the Constitution at a Nagpur convention an ‘insult’ to Ambedkar, and said the people of Maharashtra will avenge BJP’s ‘attack’ on the Constitution.In a post across social media platforms with hashtag #SamvidhanVirodhiBhajpa, Rahul said, “BJP’s former chief minister of Maharashtra…
NEW DELHI: Giving a legal cloak to the age-old norm ‘rules of the game can’t be changed mid-way’, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the eligibility criteria for govt jobs cannot be altered after advertising vacancies, and also said that transparency and non-discrimination are inflexible features of public recruitment.A bench of Chief Justice D…
JAIPUR: The national tiger conservation authority (NTCA) has asked the wildlife crime control bureau (WCCB) to gather intelligence on the disappearance of 25 tigers from Ranthambore Tiger Reserve (RTR) in Rajasthan.The move follows an order issued on Nov 4 by chief wildlife warden Pavan Kumar Upadhyay regarding the missing tigers. Upadhyay’s order cited an internal…
