Photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has said that a study conducted in 2024 and published in the Indian Academy of Sciences on human health risk assessments revealed that people residing near river drains are highly prone to developing cancer, with hazard quotients observed … Read more
U.S. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds up a chart that shows high tariffs from other nations, including India, as she speaks with reporters on March 11, 2025, in Washington | Photo Credit: AP The U.S. again raised the issue of tariffs that India imposes on its goods, citing high tariffs on American alcohol … Read more
U.S. Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance, with their children. File | Photo Credit: AP U.S. Vice President J. D. Vance is likely to travel to India later this month, according to a media report. “Vance will travel to India later this month alongside Second Lady Usha Vance,” a report in Politico … Read more
States with successful family planning record will be ‘penalised’ in delimitation exercise: Congress Delimitation could “penalise” the States that adhered to familiy planning goals and reduced total fertility rates, the Congress warned on Tuesday (March 11, 2025). Amid the delimitation row spearheaded by the southern States, Congress communications chief Jairam Ramesh, in a long X … Read more
A View of the Logo of the Election Commission of India | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The Election Commission of India has invited suggestions from all national and State political parties for any unresolved issues at the level of Electoral Registration Officer, District Election Officer or the Chief Electoral Officer by April 30, 2025, … Read more
The Election Commission of India has invited suggestions from all national and State political parties for any unresolved issues at the level of Electoral Registration Officer, District Election Officer or the Chief Electoral Officer by April 30, 2025, according to an ECI press note. In a letter issued to political parties on March 11, Tuesday, … Read more
Union Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar in New Delhi on March 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Union Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar on Tuesday (March 11, 2025) dubbed the Tamil Nadu government “hypocrite”, accusing it of refusing to implement National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 as part of a political agenda … Read more
Victims of scam centres who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar, stuck in limbo at a compound inside the K.K. Park, a fraud factory, and a human trafficking hub on the border with Thailand-Myanmar after a multinational crackdown on the compounds run by criminal gangs, operated by the Karen Border Guard Force in … Read more
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh newly-elected General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale addresses a press conference during the ‘Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha-21’ in Bengaluru, Saturday, March 20, 2021. | Photo Credit: PTI Pitching India to be termed only as ‘Bharat’, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale questioned if anywhere in the world a country has two names, … Read more
Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan speaks in the Rajya Sabha on March 11, 2025. Photo: Sansad TV via ANI Maintaining his position that the three-language formula in the National Education Policy (NEP) of 2020 is different from the policy implemented by the Congress government in 1968, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan urged the Tamil Nadu government … Read more