A view of the Supreme Court (SC) of India. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The Supreme Court on Friday (March 7, 2025) issued a notice on the petition seeking reasonable accommodation in prisons for inmates who are persons with disabilities. The petition was filed by Sathyan Nadavoor and represented by advocate Kaleeswaram Raj. A … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (March 6, 2025) said Naxalism was being wiped out from the jungles, but expressed concern that it was fast spreading roots in urban areas with some political parties also echoing their ideology. Addressing the Republic Plenary Summit organised by the news channel here, Mr. Modi also targeted the Congress … Read more
On February 16, a third-year woman student from Nepal was found dead by suicide in the Bhubaneswar-based Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT). Initial investigation by the police revealed that harassment from a fellow male student had led the student to take her own life. Other students from Nepal carried out a protest stating that the … Read more
Months after India suspended visas for Bangladesh, the total number of daily visas is nowhere near the volume that existed before the Sheikh Hasina-led government fell on August 5, 2024, diplomatic sources said in New Delhi on Thursday (March 6, 2025). The Hindu was told that before the fall of the government, India granted nearly … Read more
Abhishek Mahendra Gupta, who claims to be the whistle-blower in the case, has filed a complaint at the judicial magistrate court, Mazgaon, Mumbai stating that he has been receiving death threats. Representative image | Photo Credit: ANI In the Torres investment scam, the 31-year-old chartered accountant Abhishek Mahendra Gupta, who claims to be the whistle-blower … Read more
Congress leaders Udit Raj (L). File | Photo Credit: PTI Congress leader Udit Raj on Thursday (March 6, 2025) claimed that Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati sacked her nephew Akash Anand under pressure from the Bharatiya Janata Party since he had called for an alliance of the BSP with the Congress and Samajwadi Party … Read more
Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said while announcing the AI Kosha platform that 14,000 GPUs had been commissioned for shared access, compared to around 10,000 when announced earlier this year. File | Photo Credit: ANI The Union government on Thursday (March 6, 2025) launched AI Kosha, a platform with datasets, that is being touted as … Read more
President Droupadi Murmu. File | Photo Credit: Reuters President Droupadi Murmu will inaugurate a National Conference on ‘women-led development for a developed India’ on the occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8. The “Nari Shakti Se Viksit Bharat” conference will witness the participation of women officers from the armed forces, para-military forces and Delhi … Read more
Supreme Court recommended the appointment of Calcutta High Court judge Justice Joymalya Bagchi as a judge of the Supreme Court | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The Supreme Court on Thursday (March 6, 2025) recommended the appointment of Calcutta High Court judge Justice Joymalya Bagchi as a judge of the Supreme Court. The five-member Collegium, headed … Read more
First announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the interim Budget in February 2024, the government apportioned a part of the fund to the Department of Science and Technology (DST). File | Photo Credit: ANI The government is close to finalising an ambitious ₹1 lakh crore fund to stimulate private sector investment in core research … Read more