Two journalists from leading Hindi newspapers were shot at while they were having tea at a restaurant under Raipur police station in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district, police said. The incident took place late Thursday evening and the two journalists were rushed to the BHU Medical College where they were said to be out of danger. Read More…
Kerala Health Minister Veena George confirmed the country’s first monkeypox case in Kollam on Thursday. “There is nothing to be concerned about or nervous about. All of the necessary actions are being done, and the patient is stable,” according to the health minister. The patient’s close contacts include his father and mother, who have been Read More…
Use of terms like ‘jumlajeevi’, ‘baal buddhi’, ‘Covid spreader’ and ‘Snoopgate’ and even commonly used words like ‘ashamed’, ‘abused, ‘betrayed’, ‘corrupt’, ‘drama’, ‘hypocrisy’ and ‘incompetent’ will henceforth be considered unparliamentary in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, according to a new booklet by the Lok Sabha Secretariat. The booklet listing out unparliamentary words and expressions Read More…
Inflation in wholesale prices moderated marginally from the record 15.88% pace in May to 15.18% in June, as a minor paring in the price rise of manufactured products, fuel and power as well as primary articles was offset by a surge in food price inflation to 12.41% from 10.89% in May. June’s wholesale inflation rate Read More…
Four hospitals in Tamil Nadu were ordered to shut permanently by the state health department for their alleged involvement in the sale of egg cells of a 16-year-old. The girl was forced by her mother to donate her egg cells eight times to various fertility centres. “Only adult married women in the 21-35 age group Read More…
The Kerala High Court on Thursday dismissed two bail pleas of fraudster Monson Mavunkal after the state governments counsel strongly opposed the same. The now arrested fake antique dealer’s bail pleas pertained to two cases — one in a POCSO case and the other in a rape case. The counsel for the state argued that Read More…
More than 10 people died in various rain-related incidents since the current spell of incessant rains began in Telangana five days ago, a senior official said on Wednesday, July 13. The rain-related incidents include walls collapsing, persons being washed away, electrocution and others. The damage due to the heavy rains is being assessed but destruction Read More…
Petrol will now cost ₹ 5 less and diesel ₹ 3 less in Maharashtra as the state cabinet decided today. The tax cut needed for this will cost the state ₹ 6,000 crore a year, but it will bring down overall inflation, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said while announcing the decision. This comes a week Read More…
The Indian government and NITI Aayog have been commended by United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed for the remarkable degree to which the Sustainable Development Goals have been localised in the country. Taking part in a special India side session at the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development on the Indian model of SDG Read More…
There has never been anything quite so special as the love between a daughter and her father, but no court can refuse the career prospects of a woman, the Bombay High Court has held. The court made this observation while allowing a woman, who is embroiled in a matrimonial dispute with her husband, to relocate Read More…