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
Border Security Force (BSF) D-G Daljit Singh Chaudhary. File | Photo Credit: ANI Infiltration along the Bangladesh border had “gone down substantially” after the political developments in the neighbouring country in August 2024, Border Security Force (BSF) chief Daljit Singh Chawdhary said on Thursday (February 20, 2025). He further said the Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) stood … Read more
Disability rights activists in Delhi are building a coalition to get a key provision of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 dropped or amended. Section 9(1) of the Act has clubbed children with persons with disabilities (PwDs) to mandate that even in cases of adult PwDs who have legal guardians, consent for use … Read more
Jagdeep Dhankhar | Photo Credit: PTI Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday (February 20, 2025) said the best way to conquer a territory is to overtake its culture and destroy its language, and lamented that aggressors, who entered India centuries ago, did exactly the same by building their places of worship over ours. He also … Read more
Image used for representational purpose. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Three residents of Manipur were arrested for allegedly trafficking opium sourced from the border areas of Myanmar, converting it to heroin in Manipur’s Thoubal, and supplying it to the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR) area, police said. Police recovered 10 kg of high-grade heroin worth over … Read more
Image used for representational purpose. | Photo Credit: Reuters Weekly rest for pilots could be raised from 36 hours to 48 hours with effect from July 1, 2025, and the reduction in night flying “rolled out” from November 1, 2025, according to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation’s (DGCA) roadmap for implementing relaxed duty norms … Read more
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. File | Photo Credit: Imran Nissar The BJP on Thursday (February 20, 2025) said that U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest remarks on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funding to India was a “reaffirmation” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion during the 2024 Lok Sabha polls campaign that foreign … Read more
The contract for 149 SDRs is with defence public sector undertaking Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Bengaluru at a total cost of ₹1,220.12 crore. Image credit: Twitter/@SpokespersonMoD The Defence Ministry on Thursday (February 20, 2025) signed two contracts worth ₹1,917.47 crore for the procurement of 149 software defined radios (SDR) for the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) and … Read more