Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday said that the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library is becoming Nagpur Memorial Museum and Library. His remark came after the government reconstituted the NMML society and removed Congressmen Mallikarjun Kharge, Jairam Ramesh and Karan Singh as its members. TV journalist Rajat Sharma and Adman Prasoon Joshi are the ones newly […]
Misa Bharti said this while addressing a gathering in Patna’s Bikram area on January 16. HIGHLIGHTS In 2014, Ram Kripal Yadav resigned from his post in RJD and joined BJP He won the Patliputra Lok Sabha seat by defeating Bharti in the same year Speaking at the event, Bharti said she is now confident of […]
The year will keep most of us busy, especially with a packed political calendar. y far the event that will take up most of the mind space of Indians is the general election. That political Kumbh will most likely take place around April-May. Recent assembly election results have added vim to the Opposition ranks. There […]
The two women were accompanied by a small group of policemen in civil uniform. Two woman devotees, below the age of 50, have finally entered the Sabarimala temple — in a first after the temple was opened to women between the age group of 10-50 following the September 28 Supreme Court verdict, on October 17. […]
The global partying had kicked off on Sydney’s waterfront with the Australian city’s biggest-ever fireworks display, thrilling 1.5 million people. RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL: Revelers welcomed 2019 on Tuesday with fireworks displays and festivities as a celebratory wave swept westward across the globe from Asia to Europe and the Americas, putting to bed a tumultuous […]
Fractious UN climate change talks ended with a deal on putting the Paris agreement into practice – but much else left unresolved What was agreed at COP24? Countries settled on most of the tricky elements of the “rulebook” for putting the 2015 Paris agreement into practice. This includes how governments will measure, report on and verify their emissions-cutting efforts, […]
Angry protests erupted at Chennai SRM university premises after the student faced sexual harassment inside the campus. Subsequently, a hostel staffer has been arrested for alleged sexual harassment. Chennai: In a horrific incident reported from a premier college in Chennai, a man masturbated at a student in an elevator on campus. Moreover, when the victim complained […]
Increased costs to meet new security norms may force an automated teller machine (ATM) operators to close the money-dispensing machines. A non-profit trade association warned on Wednesday (November 21) that nearly 50 percent of the country’s 2.38 lakh ATMs face the risk of being shut down due to fresh guidelines issued by the RBI. The […]
Union Minister and senior BJP leader Ananth Kumar, who died on Monday morning at a hospital in Bengaluru, will be cremated this afternoon. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, BJP President Amit Shah, Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan are expected to attend the funeral. “A state funeral with 21-gun salute and […]
Instances of stubble burning in North India — one of the leading factors behind the air pollution and smog that New Delhi and the larger National Capital Region experience every winter — were lower in the last three days compared to the same period last year, satellite imagery provided by Nasa shows. The red dots you see in the images below […]