Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan meets farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal before the farmer leaders meeting, in Chandigarh. File. | Photo Credit: ANI Farmers and farm-labourers groups protesting in Punjab over their long pending demands on Monday (February 24, 2025) announced that they would put on hold their proposed ‘Delhi march’, slated for February … Read more
Gilbert F. Houngbo, chief of the International Labour Organization (ILO) at inauguration “Regional Dialogue” of Social Justice and Observance of 74th Foundation Day of Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) in New Delhi on February 24, 2025. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap Citing the “World Social Protection Report 2024-26”, Director-General of the International Labour Organization, … Read more
The ED probe is based on a newspaper report that an Indian national named Chirag Tomar was undergoing prison sentence in the United States for stealing over $20 million from hundreds of victims The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has conducted searches in Delhi, Jaipur, and Mumbai, in connection with the alleged conversion of cryptocurrencies worth about … Read more
Effective July 1, airlines will have to provide weekly rest of continuous 48 hours. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL The Delhi High Court on Monday (February 24, 2025) ruled that the weekly rest for pilots will be raised from 36 hours to 48 hours from July 1 after a year-long delay in … Read more
A faction of the banned socio-religious group, Jamaat-e-Islami, floated a new political party in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday and pledged to raise people-centric issues, with an aim to contest in the upcoming panchayat elections in the Union Territory. The JeI faction named the new political outfit “Justice and Development Front” (JDF) at a convention … Read more
Photo used for illustration purpose only. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Supreme Court in its recent judgment has directed the National Medical Commission (NMC) to revise its guidelines on eligibility conditions for admission to MBBS course for people with disability and report back on March 3. The direction has come after the Court in a case … Read more
Sanitation workers take part in a cleanliness drive during the ongoing Maha Kumbh Mela 2025, in Prayagraj on Feb. 24, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI The Uttar Pradesh government which formed a judicial inquiry commission to ascertain the factors and circumstances that led to the stampede at the Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj on January 29 … Read more
File picture of Lok Sabha MP from Baramulla Sheikh Abdul Rashid. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Delhi High Court on Monday (February 24, 2025) asked the special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court to expeditiously decide the bail plea of Member of Parliament from Baramulla, Engineer Rashid, who is currently in jail in a terror … Read more
Representational file image. | Photo Credit: Reuters Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) on Monday (February 24, 2025) said tax authorities have slapped a demand notice of about ₹57.2 crore on it for excess Input Tax Credit (ITC) availed for the financial year 2020-21. The company has received a communication/demand order on Monday from Assistant … Read more
File picture of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. | Photo Credit: ANI Calling the Wayanad rehabilitation package of ₹529.5 crore announced by the Centre as “inadequate” and the conditions imposed are “unfair”, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urged him to convert the relief package into a grant … Read more