Saturday, April 27, 2024
NEW DELHI — Chief Justice of India (CJI) D.Y. Chandrachud on Thursday announced the integration of WhatsApp messaging services with the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) services of the Supreme Court. Now, litigants, parties in-person ...
25 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court has ordered authorities to immediately clean the river bed of the Yamuna in Agra. A bench of Justices Abhay S. Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan was hearing the application moved by an NGO seeking directions for the restoration of ...
24 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking a probe by the Special Investigative Team (SIT) under the supervision of a retired judge of the apex into the “electoral bond scam”. The plea filed t...
24 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI —The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday apprised the Supreme Court that all three units (i.e. ballot unit, control unit and VVPAT) of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) have their own microcontroller. “These microcontrol...
24 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to clarify if the microcontroller is installed in the controlling unit or in the VVPAT (Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail). A bench presided over by Justice Sa...
24 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday emphasised the need to invest in resilient infrastructure as part of the strategy to minimise the damage from natural disasters that are on the rise across the world. Addressing the sixth intern...
24 Apr 2024
UNITED NATIONS — As the Global South grapples with the ossified structure of the main multilateral development banks (MDBs), India has taken a leading role in calling for the reform of the institutions created after World War 2 reflecting the power...
24 Apr 2024
AGRA — Nearly 40 school children were injured in a bee attack in the Bah region of Uttar Pradesh’s Agra district on Tuesday, officials said. The attack resulted in six children being hospitalised. According to sources, the sudden collapse of ...
24 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — A unit of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully developed the lightest bulletproof jacket for security forces in the country designed to withstand the highest threat level, known as Level 6, officials sai...
24 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court is slated to pass certain directions on Wednesday on a batch of petitions seeking mandatory cross-verification of the votes cast in Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) with Voter-Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slip...
24 Apr 2024
NAGPUR — Maharashtra’s Chief Electoral Officer has initiated action against the management of a school for allegedly allowing the use of its students in the poll campaign of BJP’s Nagpur Lok Sabha candidate, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari...
23 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — Asserting that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or the ASEAN, is at the heart of India’s ‘Act East’ policy, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said on Tuesday that the time has come for the Global South...
23 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — India on Tuesday carried out a successful launch of the new variant of a medium-range ballistic missile. The Ministry of Defence in a statement said that the successful launch of the new variant of a medium-range ballistic missile was c...
23 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — Advancing Indo-French cooperation on culture and global commons, a senior official from the Emmanuel Macron government visited Delhi on Monday to co-chair the Joint Working Group on Museology that is leading the project to create a new ...
23 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — The aviation watchdog DGCA on Tuesday issued a circular asking all airlines to ensure children up to the age of 12 years are seated with their parents. The DGCA has revised the Air Transport Circular (ATC)-01 of 2024, titled ‘Unbundle...
23 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — Significant progress has been made in the construction of various stations for India’s first bullet train and we are geared up to run the first train in one section in 2026, Union Railways and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tues...
23 Apr 2024
NEW YORK — Ravi Prakash Singh, the Mexico-based scientist who received the Padma Shri award, has been hailed for his achievement in making wheat strains resistant to rust diseases, protecting the supply of the foodgrain that is an essential element...
23 Apr 2024
BHOPAL — As many as four luminaries from Madhya Pradesh — Omprakash Sharma, Bhagwatilal Rajpurohit, Kaluram Bamaniya, and Satendra Singh Lohiya — were bestowed the prestigious Padma Shri Award on Monday. Sharma was bestowed with the pre...
23 Apr 2024
KOCHI — M. Fathima Beevi, the first woman judge of the Supreme Court who later became the Governor of Tamil Nadu, has been posthumously conferred with the Padma Bhushan award. 96-year-old Fathima Beevi passed away in November 2023. She was also the...
23 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — Constantly working to deepen and broaden political ties with India, the European Union (EU) on Monday announced that Indian nationals can now apply for a multiple-entry Schengen visa with longer validity. “On April 18, 2024, the E...
22 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — Former Vice President Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu and popular Telugu actor Konidela Chiranjeevi are the two distinguished sons of Andhra Pradesh who received the Padma Vibhushan on Monday. While Venkaiah Naidu received the second-highest...
22 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — The Delhi High Court on Monday posted Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s petition challenging the summonses issued to him by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the excise policy case for hearing on May 15. A bench of Ju...
22 Apr 2024
NEW DELHI — Negotiators from 176 countries will gather this week for the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee in Ottawa, Canada to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the m...
22 Apr 2024
SANT KABIR NAGAR — Nishad Party president and Uttar Pradesh Minister Sanjay Nishad was attacked by unidentified persons when he had gone to attend a wedding function. The incident happened late on Sunday night. The minister said that his supporters...
22 Apr 2024
LUCKNOW — Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will file his nomination for the Lucknow Lok Sabha seat on April 29, BJP sources said. Lucknow BJP Chief Anand Dwivedi said Rajnath Singh will proceed to file his nomination papers from the Uttar Pradesh BJP...
22 Apr 2024
