HRD ministry to reconsider conducting NEET twice a year
New Delhi: The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry may reconsider its decision to conduct medical entrance exam NEET twice a year, following recommendations from the Health Ministry. According to sources, the Health Ministry has written to the HRD Ministry, raising concerns on conducting the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) twice a year as the examination calendar may […]
Kerala rain: 26 dead, red alert issued; CM says situation ‘very grim’
Kochi: The flood situation is turning grim in Kerala which has been witnessing incessant rain for the last few days. With downpour continuing unabated, two more shutters of the Cheruthoni Dam, part of the Idukki Reservoir, were opened on Friday as the water level touched 2,401 feet. A third red alert was issued after a […]
Union Cabinet amends Triple Talaq Bill, includes provision to grant bail
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved a provision of granting bail to men found guilty of giving instant triple talaq to their wives, sources in the government said. Giving instant triple talaq will continue to be illegal and void and will attract a jail term of three years for the husband. Addressing a […]
22-yr-old woman abducted, raped for 10 days at gunpoint Odisha’s Sambalpur
Sambalpur (Odisha): A 22-year-old woman has been allegedly abducted and raped for about ten days by a man in Kuchinda area of Odisha’s Sambalpur district, police said. Somya Ranjan Dharua, 28, had allegedly kidnapped the woman on July 21 and took her to his house where she was raped at gunpoint for about ten days, a […]
Justice Joseph takes oath as third SC judge
Justice Indira Banerjee, Justice Vineet Saran and Justice K.M. Joseph on Tuesday were sworn in as Supreme Court judges in the same order of seniority as notified by the government, unfazed by the row over placing Justice Joseph as the junior-most among them. The three were administered the oath of office by Chief Justice Dipak […]
Cong will give space to women; RSS is male chauvinist: Raoul Gandhi
Congress president Rahul Gandhi today hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue of women safety and questioned his silence on the alleged incidents of rape of girls in some shelter homes in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. The Congress leader said what they did against women in the past four years had not […]
Swachh Bharat campaign can prevent over 3 lakh deaths: WHO
New Delhi: As many as 3,00,000 deaths caused due to diarrhoeal disease and protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) since the country launched the Swachh Bharat Mission in 2014 can be averted if India remains committed to achieving 100 per cent coverage in terms of safe sanitation services by October 2019, stated a World Health Organization (WHO) study. […]
Anganwadis to get 2 lakh smartphones, tablets to monitor nutrition levels
New Delhi: Over 2 lakh smartphones and tablets have been procured by eight states to aid anganwadis in monitoring nutrition levels in children, according to official data. The smartphones and tablets have been procured under the ‘Poshan Abhiyan’, a programme launched with the aim to reduce the level of stunting, under-nutrition, anaemia and low birth […]
Married women have ‘sexual autonomy’ like right to say ‘no’, says SC
New Delhi: If a woman has the right to say “no”, then it has to be accepted that she also does not lose her “sexual autonomy” after marriage, a Supreme Court judge said on Thursday. Justice D Y Chandrachud, who was part of a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra examining the penal […]
Tamil Nadu woman bites off husband’s penis, runs away with lover
New Delhi: A woman who bit off a chunk of her husband’s penis when he caught her with another man has been charged with attempted murder, police said on Friday. The 45-year-old Jayanthi, who uses only one name, had gone out with her farmer husband to watch a play in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore district Monday, but […]
