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Wreckage at the site after a Jaguar fighter jet of the Indian Air Force crashed while on a training mission, at a village near Jamnagar IAF station in Gujarat, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI A Jaguar fighter jet of the Indian Air Force crashed at a village near Jamnagar IAF station in … Read more
Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju introduced the Waqf Amendment Bill in Lok Sabha during the Budget Session of the Parliament, in New Delhi on April 2, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI The parties of the National Democratic Alliance showed varied shades of support for the Waqf (amendment) Bill, 2025. While the Bill received … Read more
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said in a statement to the Upper House that the aim of the guidelines was to create an inclusive and multidisciplinary higher education system | Photo Credit: PTI The University Grants Commission (UGC) has received feedback on its controversial draft guidelines on faculty appointments. Suggestions have been made on improvements … Read more
Bangladesh’s High Representative for the Rohingya refugee crisis, Khalilur Rahman, informed reporters in Dhaka that there is “sufficient possibility” of a meeting between PM Modi and Prof. Yunus on the sidelines of the summit. File | Photo Credit: Agencies A day before leaders from south and southeast Asian nations gather for the BIMSTEC summit in … Read more
Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh. File | Photo Credit: ANI The government has constituted committees with members from the Department of Atomic Energy, the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, NITI Aayog and the Ministry of Law and Justice to discuss amendments to the Atomic Energy Act and the Civil Liability for … Read more
Union Home Minister Amit Shah speaks in the Lok Sabha during a debate on the revised UMEED Bill on April 2, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday (April 2, 2025) categorically assured the Muslim community that the new Waqf (amendment) Bill does not interfere with its religious practices and accused … Read more
The Supreme Court has used its extraordinary powers to do complete justice by increasing — by nearly 15 times — the motor accident compensation awarded to a “brave” Chennai-based girl, who lost her mother and sustained extensive injuries in 2010. A Bench headed by Justice Surya Kant recounted how M. Pradeesha was battling a 50% … Read more
Nagas demonstrate in Manipur’s Ukhrul against the Centre’s plan to fence the India-Myanmar border. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Nagas in the frontier districts of Manipur and Nagaland took to the streets on Wednesday (April 2, 2025) to oppose the Centre’s move to fence the 1,643-km India-Myanmar border, and demand the restoration of the free … Read more
Employees across bases in Nagpur, Kolkata and New Delhi have been protesting the privatisation of AIESL. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A section of employees at the government-owned and the country’s largest aircraft maintenance company, Air India Engineering Services Limited (AIESL), started a symbolic protest on Wednesday (April 2, 2025) by wearing a black ribbon … Read more
Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi in the Lok Sabha during the Budget session of Parliament, in New Delhi, on April 2, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Opposition INDIA bloc on Wednesday (April 2, 2025) said the Waqf amendment Bill was an attack on the basic structure of the Constitution and was aimed a “polarising” and dividing … Read more