Supreme Court to Hear Dilution of AFSPA Case On 20th August
New Delhi, : A petition was today filed before Supreme Court of India by 355 serving Army officials regarding protection in Armed Forces (Special Powers) Acts (AFSPA) areas including Kashmir. The Supreme Court has listed the matter for 20th Aug 2018. Reports reaching Kashmir News Bureau, prominent lawyer Aishwarya Bhati Tuesday filed a petition on […]
Cong, Rahul responsible for triple talaq bill not being passed: BJP
New Delhi: The BJP on Friday held Congress president Rahul Gandhi responsible for the triple talaq bill not getting the parliamentary nod in the Monsoon Session, saying his party supported it in the Lok Sabha but not in the Rajya Sabha for its vote bank politics. Attacking Gandhi, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar said the […]
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 […]
