NEW DELHI, 18 Apr: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday accused the Centre of conspiring to change the federal structure of the country in the garb of women’s reservation and asserted that the defeat of the bill to amend the women’s quota law in the Lok Sabha was a victory of opposition unity. Addressing
CHENNAI, 8 Apr: The Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) here in Tamil Nadu celebrated its University Day on Tuesday. Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Indian Bank, Binod Kumar, in his address, encouraged students to prepare themselves for a rapidly changing world. He stressed the importance of continuous effort and adaptability to overcome challenges
BENGALURU, 9 Apr: Dayananda Sagar University (DSU), a leading private multidisciplinary university in Karnataka recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NVIDIA to build India’s first AI-first factory. The initiative will leverage NVIDIA’s next-generation AI supercomputing platform, Blackwell, designed for large-scale model training and inference, enabling AI-driven innovation in education and multidisciplinary research, and
NEW DELHI, 25 Mar: State-owned oil companies on Wednesday said there is no shortage of petrol, diesel or LPG in the country, urging citizens not to believe rumours circulating on social media or resort to panic buying. Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the nation’s largest oil firm, said “there is no shortage of petrol or diesel,”
HAMIRPUR (HP), 25 Mar: Union Home Minister Amit Shah has written to all states to reserve 20 per cent jobs for Agniveers for their rehabilitation after they complete their four-year term in 2027, an official said on Wednesday. The letter is addressed to the chief ministers, said Sainik Welfare Department director Brigadier Madan Sheel Sharma
NEW DELHI, 18 Mar: India has emerged as a key contributor to global progress in reducing child mortality, according to the latest United Nations report. The UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNIGME) Report 2025 highlighted India’s sustained and large-scale efforts in improving child survival outcomes, particularly across neonatal and under-five mortality indicators. Over
NEW DELHI, 17 Mar: Observing that adoption is part of the right to reproductive autonomy, the Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a law which said a woman would be eligible for maternity leave if she legally adopts a child below the age of three months, holding it is discriminatory. Ruling that age-based classification under
SRINAGAR/LUCKNOW, 1 Mar: From Kashmir to Karnataka, Shia mourners took to the streets in various parts of India to express outrage and grief over the death of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a US-Israel strike. Khamenei was killed in an airstrike in Tehran on Saturday during a joint Israel-US attack on Iran. Iranian
NEW DELHI, 25 Feb: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Wednesday strongly objected to a chapter on judicial corruption in the NCERT’s Class 8 social science curriculum, prompting the syllabus-setting body to withdraw the contentious textbook from its website. A three-judge bench comprising the CJI and justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi took
NEW DELHI, 18 Feb: Identifying persons on grounds of race, region, sex and caste would amount to treading a regressive path, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday while refusing to entertain a PIL seeking to prevent discrimination and violence against citizens from the northeast and other regions. “A crime is a crime and it must
NEW DELHI, 17 Feb: As India hosts the world’s largest artificial intelligence (AI) conclave, the AI Impact Summit-2026, to make a big pitch for the new technology, the Supreme Court on Tuesday red-flagged its flip side. A top court bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant expressed serious concern over a growing trend of lawyers
NEW DELHI, 15 Feb: Upping the ante against the government over the India-US interim trade deal, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday posed a string of questions to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and alleged that “we are witnessing a betrayal” of Indian farmers. Gandhi, who has been attacking the government and accusing it of a
NEW DELHI, 15 Feb: The Congress on Sunday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s interview with PTI was “no interview,” and claimed that it was “carefully scripted” and a “desperate PR exercise.” Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh further alleged that, being “under siege and attack because of his surrender to the US on the trade deal,”
NEW DELHI, 14 Feb: The union cabinet has approved a Rs 18,662-crore project to construct a four-lane access-controlled greenfield corridor between Gohpur and Numaligarh, featuring India’s first road-cum-rail tunnel under the Brahmaputra river in Assam. Currently, the connectivity between Numaligarh on NH715 and Gohpur on NH 15 is 240 km – from the existing Kaliabhambhora
GUWAHATI, 14 Feb: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched an all-out attack on the Congress, accusing it of neglecting the Northeast and promoting insurgency in Assam during its rule. Addressing a public meeting here that also included BJP workers, Modi alleged that the Congress always endangered the nation’s security, with fear and insecurity prevailing
NEW DELHI, 14 Feb: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused the government of cheating cotton farmers and textile exporters in the country over the India-US interim trade deal and said the agreement is likely to inflict deep damage on both sectors. In a post on X, he said the government has neither protected the
NEW DELHI, 14 Feb: More than 450 daycare cancer centres are functional across the country, reflecting a steady expansion and strengthening of district-level chemotherapy services, union health ministry sources said. The government, in the Union Budget 2025-26, had announced the establishment of day care cancer centres (DCCCs) in district hospitals across the country over the
NEW DELHI, 14 Feb: Women’s security is the first step towards national development and remains a top priority for the government, union Women and Child Development Minister Annpurna Devi said on Saturday, asserting that women are now at the centre of policymaking and governance. Addressing a national conference on safety of women at workplaces, the
GREATER NOIDA, 13 Feb: Three-day annual fest, ‘Chorus 2K26’, of Sharda University, located at Knowledge Park, Greater Noida, concluded recently with a bang with a live performance by popular Indian singer Sunanda Sharma. This year’s fest, with the theme ‘Festival of dreams and diversity’, focused on witnessing and celebrating the richness of diversity reflected in
NEW DELHI, 12 Feb: The Centre told the Supreme Court on Thursday that climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, who is under detention in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur jail, was the chief provocateur of the violence in Leh on 24 September last year. Additional Solicitor General KM Nataraj, appearing for the Centre, told a bench of Justices Aravind Kumar
