India
PUNE: Twelve-hour classes all year round, creative writing skills that eclipse those of their peers and multiplication tables memorized up to 1000. A school in a backwater of Nashik is creating ripples with all that and more, attracting Education in Maharastra Minister Dada Bhuse to the remote tribal village just weeks after taking office.However, the…
NEW DELHI: After accusing the BJP government of “blatantly violating” the Law on places of worshipStarting in January 1991, Congress will join the case before the Supreme Court demanding that the 1991 law be strictly respected.On December 12, the Supreme Court ordered the suspension of studies ordered by several courts alleging that there were temples…
KOCHI/KASARAGOD: A CBI court on Friday sentenced 10 accused to life imprisonment and four others, including former CPM MLA from Uduma KV Kunhiraman, to five years in jail for the murder of two Youth Congress workers. in Periya in Kasaragod, Kerala, in February 2019. The court found them guilty on Saturday.All 10 defendants were sentenced…
PRAYAGRAJ: The allahabad high court The arrest of the Samajwadi Party MP was stayed on Friday. Ziaur Rahman Barq regarding violence in Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh during a survey by the Mughal era Shahi Jama Masjid.The HC, however, refused to quash the FIR registered in the case. A bench of Justices Rajiv Gupta and…
Three days after the two-year-old male tiger ST-2402 deviated from Sariska Tiger Reserve (STR), forest authorities managed to tranquilize and rescue him on Friday. The young tiger was found hiding in the kitchen of a house in Chilki Ka Bas village in Alwar district while villagers locked themselves inside their houses out of fear. On…
JAMMU: Alert Army troops averted a mishap by detecting an improvised explosive device in J&K’s Reasi district on Thursday night. The explosive was later neutralized.Under Operation Adbes, the Rashtriya Rifles personnel found the improvised explosive device in the Angralla-Bhalla forest area of Mahore at night, as reported by the Army’s White Knight Corps in X.The…
NEW DELHI: The government has taken steps to make parental consent mandatory for children to open social media accounts. The Center in the draft Data Protection norms has mentioned that “verifiable consent of parents that the data collecting entity must obtain before processing the personal data of children”.Consent must be obtained before any data processing…
NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday explained the purpose of “lathi training” imparted to its cadres. He said the motive was to instil bravery in the paintings and that the skill was not meant to be displayed publicly. The RSS does not train its cadres to use the ‘lathi’ or stick…
NEW DELHI: In a fresh incident of violence, a mob attacked the office of the police superintendent in Manipur Kangpokpi District on Friday night. The attack was over the officer’s alleged failure to withdraw the central force from Saibol village, bordering Imphal East district.Several people were injured in the attack, news agency PTI reported.Kuki groups…
US President Joe Biden on Friday rejected Japan’s proposed acquisition of US Steel. Nippon Steelvalued at approximately $15 billion, keeping its previous promise to avoid the takeover.“We need the big American companies that represent the majority of the country’s steel capacity to continue leading the fight on behalf of America’s national interests,” Biden said.The decision…