NEW DELHI,MAY 27 : Delhi University’s Academic Council has passed a motion to remove a chapter on Pakistan’s national poet Muhammad Iqbal from the political science syllabus. Muhammad Iqbal wrote the famous patriotic song “Saare Jahan Se Achha”. Often credited with giving birth to the idea of Pakistan, Muhammad Allama Iqbal was born in 1877 […]Continue Reading
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NEW DELHI,May 27: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday chaired a meeting of the 8th Governing Council of the Niti Aayog here in which Chief Ministers of several states participated. The meeting is currently underway at the newly constructed Convention Centre in Pragati Maidan. It is being held under the theme of “Viksit Bharat @2047: […]Continue Reading
Karnataka,May 27 : A week after taking over, the Congress government led by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah carried out the cabinet expansion by inducting 24 legislators inside the Raj Bhavan in Bengaluru at 11:45 am on Saturday.The Karnataka government can have 34 ministers. Ten of them, including Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy DK Shivakumar, were […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,MAY 27 : Yoga guru Ramdev has come out in open support of wrestlers protesting at Jantar Mantar for several weeks. Not mincing his words, Ramdev lashed out at Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, saying that the wrestling federation chief must be put behind bars. “The allegations of harassment leveled at the wrestling federation chief […]Continue Reading
Madhya Pradesh,May 27 : A young woman and a man from different religions were manhandled and heckled by a mob when they came out of a hotel in Indore in Madhya Pradesh and two people who came to the couple’s rescue received stab wounds, a police official said on Friday. The incident, a video of […]Continue Reading
BHOPAL,MAY 26 : The officials of Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur district mistaken as cattle thieves were attacked by some villagers when they were looking for a female cheetah ‘Asha’ who moved out of the protected area, an official said on Friday. The team was following inputs of a GPS device attached […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,MAY 26: A Delhi court on Friday granted a no-objection certificate (NOC) to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for issuance of an ‘ordinary passport’ for three years instead of 10, the period for which it is normally issued, following an objection raised by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy. The former Congress president had surrendered his diplomatic […]Continue Reading
Chhattisgarh,May 26 : How precious can a cellphone be? Millions of gallons of water, meant for parched fields, was pumped out of a dam in Chhattisgarh after a government official dropped his mobile in it. And it went on for three days. On Sunday, Rajesh Vishwas, food inspector of Koyalibeda block, visited the Kherkatta Paralkot […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,MAY 26 : The Supreme Court on Friday granted interim bail to Delhi’s former health minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Satyendar Jain in a money laundering case on medical grounds for six weeks. Satyendar Jain has been in Tihar jail since his arrest in connection with a money laundering case in May […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,MAY 26 : China, which is already locked in a lingering border standoff with India, has been building border defence villages adjacent to Uttarakhand, sources told India Today. These border villages, comprising 250 homes, are being built 11 kilometers away from the Line of Actual Control (LAC). China has also been involved in the […]Continue Reading
