Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Tejasvi Surya, party’s Rajasthan chief Satish Poonia and others were allegedly stopped from visiting communal violence-hit Karauli on Wednesday. The BJP leaders were stopped at the Dausa-Karauli border but kept demanding that they be allowed to meet victims of the April 2 violence that broke out after a bike rally […]
The New York Police Department has identified Frank James as a ‘person of interest’ in the Brooklyn subway attack that injured more than 20 people on Tuesday when chaos unfolded in the morning rush-hour, officials said. “More than 20 people were left injured – ten were reportedly hit directly by the gunfire while 13 more […]
The World Health Organisation has said that it is continuing to monitor “several descendent lineages” of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, including two new sublineages that have additional mutations associated with potential “immune escape characteristics”. The Covid Weekly Epidemiological Update, released by WHO on Tuesday, said that the Omicron variant remains the dominant variant […]
A joint team of the CBI and the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation vigilance cell conducted searches at two EPFO offices in Maharashtra’s Nagpur city following some complaints of irregularities against EPFO employees, officials said on Wednesday.The Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) anti-corruption branch in Nagpur and the EPFO’s vigilance team from Mumbai started the searches […]
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 […]