Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday paid tributes to people killed in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919, and said their unparalleled courage and sacrifice would keep motivating the coming generations. Hundreds of people protesting peacefully against the Rowlatt Act, which granted the colonial administration repressive powers, were gunned down by British forces without any […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya on April 14 at around 11 AM. The Sangrahalaya, being inaugurated during the celebration of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, tells the story of India after Independence through the lives and contributions of its Prime Ministers. The Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya is a tribute to every Prime Minister of […]
Five people were shot on Tuesday morning at a subway station in Brooklyn, New York, law enforcement sources said. Fire personnel responding to reports of smoke at the 36th Street station in the Sunset Park neighbourhood found multiple people shot and undetonated devices, a New York City Fire Department spokesperson said.According to multiple law enforcement […]
On the directions of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, State Education Department on Tuesday ordered the private schools to immediately display the list of minimum three books/uniform shops in towns and 20 in cities to be shared with the District Education Officers (DEOs). This move is aimed at allowing the parents to have option for […]
Students will now be able to pursue two full-time degree programmes in physical mode simultaneously either at the same university or from different universities, UGC Chairman Jagadesh Kumar announced on Tuesday. “As announced in the new National Education Policy (NEP) and in order to allow students to acquire multiple skills, UGC is coming up with […]
India’s import of Russian crude oil while Moscow is under sanctions for its invasion of Ukraine ‘is no violation of sanctions’ given ‘it is only 1-2 per cent at this time’, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said late Monday after prime minister Narendra Modi and US president Joe Biden spoke briefly. Psaki’s remarks also […]
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States was monitoring what he described as a rise in human rights abuses in India by some officials, in a rare direct rebuke by Washington of the Asian nation’s rights record. “We regularly engage with our Indian partners on these shared values (of human rights) […]
Crisis-ridden Sri Lanka on Tuesday said it was defaulting on its external debt of around $51 billion pending a bailout from the International Monetary Fund, with whom talks are scheduled for later this month. Sri Lanka’s finance ministry said creditors, including foreign governments, were free to capitalise interest payments due from Tuesday afternoon or opt […]
Tricity commuters faced hardships as App-based cabs and auto-rickshaws remained off the road on Tuesday in protest against rising fuel prices. Members of the Cab-Auto Sanyukt Morcha claimed that there are about 40,000 drivers in the Tricity and their livelihood is on the verge of fall due to the rising prices of petrol, diesel and […]