“Mujhe garv hai ki mai Chamar hu (I am proud to be a Chamar),” said Bindeshwar Ram, a Vikas Mitra and resident of Bihar’s Gaya district, at an event in Patna to commemorate the 647th birth anniversary of Sant Shiromani Ravidas, a 14th-century saint from the Chamar (cobbler) caste associated with the Bhakti movement and considered … Read more
Raebareli, Feb 20 (ANI): Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi addresses a public meeting, at Shankarpur in Raebareli on Thursday. (ANI Photo) | Photo Credit: ANI Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday- (February 20, 2025) said he wanted the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) … Read more
Achyuta Samanta, founder of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT). File | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Achyuta Samanta, the founder of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), a deemed to be university, has been summoned to appear before a high-level committee on Friday (February 21, 2025) following allegations of ill-treatment of Nepalese students on campus. … Read more
Gujarat Police escort immigrants deported from the USA upon their arrival at Ahmedabad Airport in Ahmedabad on February 17, 2025. | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji Large-scale deportation of illegal immigrants from the United States to India has put the spotlight on human trafficking syndicates. While police forces of many States are looking into the cases, … Read more
Union Home Minister Amit Shah appealed to the last of the remaining insurgent groups active in the Northeast to lay down arms and join the mainstream. File photo Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday appealed to the last of the remaining insurgent groups active in the Northeast to lay down arms and join the … Read more
The chairman of the AICC department on law, Abhishek Singhvi, said there were three primary concerns that the party intended to flag in the proposed Bill. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Congress on Thursday (February 20, 2025) extended its support to the legal fraternity that is opposing the proposed amendments to the Advocates Act, … Read more
A file photo of a vendor arranging a price tag over a sack filled with sugar at a wholesale vegetable market in Ahmedabad. | Photo Credit: Reuters Barely a month after the Centre’s decision to allow the export of 10 lakh metric tonne of sugar, the Indian Sugar and Bio-Energy Manufacturers Association (ISMA) has claimed … Read more
The Supreme Court in a judgment on Thursday set aside four directions given by the Madras High Court in a case concerning the conduct of Formula 4 racing in Chennai, including that the Racing Promotion Private Ltd (RPPL) must reimburse ₹42 crore to the Tamil Nadu government. A Bench of Justices P.S. Narasimha and Manoj … Read more
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi. File | Photo Credit: PTI Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has been admitted to the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi, sources said on Thursday (February 20, 2025). She is doing fine and is likely to be discharged on Friday (February 21, 2025), they said. Ms. Gandhi had turned 78 in December … Read more
The USAID flag outside the USAID building in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Congress on Thursday (February 20, 2025) demanded that the Union government bring out a white paper on USAID funding of both government and non-governmental institutions in India over the past decades. The Opposition party’s demand comes … Read more