- Sunday, February 23, 2025
SOCIAL media giant Twitter found itself in a spot on Thursday (8) when the Delhi High Court said the Narendra Modi government was free to take action against it as per the information technology rules in case it had flouted them. The court also questioned the American company for referring…
VETERAN India-origin South African anti-apartheid activist Maniben Sita passed away on Wednesday (7) due to complications pertaining to Covid-19. She was 94. Sita, who was inspired by his father Nana Sita who in turn was influenced by Mahatma Gandhi, was hospitalised in Pretoria last week after contracting the virus. Born…
A NUMBER of newly appointed ministers took charge of their respective assignments on Thursday (8), a day after prime minister Narendra Modi effected a mega cabinet reshuffle. As many as 43 ministers took oath at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday and 36 among them are new faces. Seven existing ministers…
VIRBHADRA Singh, six-time chief minister of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, passed away in state capital Shimla early on Thursday (8). He was 87. The Congress leader breathed his last at the Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) in the city after a prolonged illness. The Himachal Pradesh government…
ELEPHANTS are dying or being killed in the eastern Indian state of Odisha at an alarming rate in recent years, prompting conservationists and environmentalists to call for urgent action to avert an ecological disaster. Odisha, which has the fifth-largest elephant population in India, has witnessed 50 deaths in the first…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (7) effected a massive reshuffle in his cabinet which saw as many as 36 new faces getting inducted as ministers and factors like age, gender and identity (social, regional) getting a prominence. Twelve serving ministers were dropped in the process in what was…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi effected a major cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday (7) whereby some prominent names were brought into the government at the expense of some big names. Former Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, former Maharashtra chief minister Narayan Rane and heavyweight leader from Madhya Pradesh Jyotiraditya Scindia were…
THE Calcutta High Court on Wednesday (7) fined West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee Rs 5 lakh ($6,694) for seeking recusal of Justice Kaushik Chanda from her Nandigram election petition over the latter’s alleged links with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The judge also rejected the petition of Banerjee but…
IN a first, women teachers in Indian schools have outnumbered their male counterparts, a report by the Unified District Information on School Election 2019-20 revealed. The country now has 49.2 lakh (4.92 million) female teachers as against 47.7 lakh (4.77 million) male teachers, compared to 35.8 lakh (3.58 million) female…
THE Narendra Modi government saw a major reshuffle on Wednesday (7) when a number of its top ministers stepped down to make way for new faces. In the first-ever rejig in Modi’s second tenure as the prime minister, several frontline ministers quit their posts and they included, apart from the…
