Pakistan,June 21 : Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission (HEC) has banned Holi celebrations in universities. The order of the HEC comes days after students of Quaid-i-Azam University celebrated Holi on the campus on June 12 and videos of the event went viral. In a notice, the Commission stated that students are forbidden to follow this festival […]Continue Reading
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Maharashtra,June 21 : A video showing a Maharashtra Independent woman legislator holding the collar and slapping a junior civic engineer in full public view has gone viral on social media. She also called him a ‘nalayak’ (useless). Geeta Jain, the MLA from Mira Bhayandar in Thane district, slapped the engineer after officials from Mira Bhayandar […]Continue Reading
Punjab,June 20 : The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday passed the Sikh Gurdwaras (Amendment) Bill, 2023, to ensure free telecast of Gurbani from Sri Harmandir Sahib (the Golden Temple) in Amritsar. The Bill is aimed at making the broadcast and telecast of Gurbani free for all, and does away with the need for tenders. The move […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,JUNE 20 : Officials are in a race against time to locate a submersible tourist vessel that went missing on Sunday in the North Atlantic during a voyage to the Titanic shipwreck with five people on board. The five people comprised one pilot and four “mission specialists”. Rescuers are understood to be in a […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,JUNE 20 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for his crucial visit to the United States this morning from Delhi. The visit is seen as a turning point for bilateral relations, with deeper cooperation in defence industry and sharing high technology in sharp focus. This will be the PM Narendra Modi’s first state visit […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,JUNE 19 : Gita Press, Gorakhpur, one of the world’s largest publishers, has refused to accept the Rs 1 crore cash reward for the Gandhi Peace Prize for 2021 amid a controversy over being picked for the honour. The jury headed by Prime Minister Modi unanimously decided to select Gita Press as the recipient […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,JUNE 19: Senior IPS officer Ravi Sinha was on Monday appointed as the chief of the country’s external spy agency RAW, succeeding Samant Kumar Goel who will complete his four-year tenure on June 30, an official order said. Sinha, a 1988 batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of the Chhattisgarh cadre, is currently Special […]Continue Reading
LUCKNOW, JUNE 18: Two teams of the health department were rushed to Ballia on Saturday after 40 patients, who had been admitted to the district hospital due to heat stroke-related complications, died over the past three days. As per reports, though the deceased were from varied localities, a high number of deaths sent the health […]Continue Reading
VILLUPURAM,JUNE 16 : Former special DGP Rajesh Das was on Friday convicted on charges of sexually harassing a young woman IPS officer and awarded three years imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 20,500. The Villupuram Chief Judicial Magistrate M Pushparani gave the verdict in the case filed in 2021. Former Chengalpattu district SP S […]Continue Reading
KARNATAKA,JUNE 16: A tractor driver has been arrested for allegedly crushing to death under his vehicle a police constable in Karnataka’s Kalaburagi district, police said on Friday. The incident took place when the constable was attempting to stop a tractor from transporting illegally mined sand in Jewargi taluk, they said. The prime accused tractor driver […]Continue Reading
