A protest in Manipur’s Thoubal on against the Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2025 on April 8, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI Petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 have been listed for hearing on April 16, 2025. The case is listed before a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna. The … Read more
Former Union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai. File | Photo Credit: PTI As Tahawwur Rana, one of the co-conspirators in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, is set to be extradited to India on Thursday, former Union Home Secretary G.K Pillai said on Wednesday that Rana had a “small role” to play in the carnage but the … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (virtually) addresses devotees during the ‘Navkar Mahamantra Divas’ programme, at Wright Town Stadium, in Jabalpur. April 9, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (April 9, 2025) said that values enshrined by Jainism offer an answer to global challenges of terrorism, war, and environmental degradation. He added … Read more
Former Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. File. | Photo Credit: V.V. Krishnan The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday (April 10, 2025) asked the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi if he was uncomfortable with the empowerment of deprived women and girls, and the extremely backward Pasmanda Muslims via the Waqf … Read more
Police personnel stand guard after security forces established contact with three terrorists during a search operation in a village in Ramnagar, Udhampur. April 9, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Security forces engaged militants in two separate gunfights in the Udhampur and Kishtwar districts of the Jammu region on Wednesday (April 9, 2025), officials said. In … Read more
The Supreme Court, in late March, had stayed the Allahabad High Court order of March 17 passed by a Single Judge Bench of Justice Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The mother of a minor victim who was sexually attacked and partially disrobed by two men joined cause in a suo motu … Read more
File photo of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq. | Photo Credit: PTI The ruling National Conference (NC) as well as the Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday (April 9, 2025) said they will approach the Supreme Court (SC) to oppose the Waqf Amendment Act. Meanwhile, the authorities denied permission to hold Muslim bodies’ meeting over the … Read more
The project will increase the existing network of Indian Railways by about 113 km. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: B Jothi Ramalingam The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Wednesday (April 9, 2025) approved the doubling of the Tirupati-Pakala-Katpadi railway line, spanning 104 km in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, at a cost of … Read more
European aerospace manufacturer Airbus on Wednesday announced that it has awarded a contract for manufacturing the main fuselage assembly of the H130 helicopter to Mahindra Aerostructures Pvt. Ltd. in India. Mahindra will produce the H130’s main fuselage assembly, which will then be shipped to Airbus Helicopters’ facilities in Europe. The manufacturing will commence immediately, with … Read more
Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw addresses a Cabinet Briefing, in New Delhi on April 9, 2025 | Photo Credit: ANI Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw asked the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to come up with a new law for Aadhaar that is compatible with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, … Read more