April 08, 2024 07:27 am | Updated 08:37 am IST With polling just over ten days away, parties are in full campaign mode. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to address a rally in Aamabal village in Bhanpuri in Bastar Lok Sabha constituency, which is located in Chhattisgarh. He will …...Read More
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New Private Schools Act | Madras High Court grants time till June 25 for T.N. to consider exempting minority institutions
April 08, 2024 12:54 pm | Updated 02:16 pm IST - CHENNAI The Madras High Court on Monday, April 8, 2024, granted time till June 25 for the Tamil Nadu government to take a call on a representation made by minority schools to exempt them from certain provisions of the …...Read More
Government notifies plan to delist 18 centrally protected monuments | Explained
April 08, 2024 12:49 pm | Updated 12:49 pm IST The story so far: The Ministry of Culture, in a notification issued on March 8, declared its intention to delist 18 protected monuments as they have “ceased to be of national importance.” The government has evoked Section 35 of the …...Read More
Cody Fisher: Two men jailed for life for murdering footballer in Birmingham nightclub dancefloor stabbing
Two men have been jailed for life after murdering a semi-professional footballer on a nightclub dancefloor in Birmingham. Remy Gordon and Kami Carpenter fatally stabbed Cody Fisher on Boxing Day in 2022 after a minor altercation two days earlier. Gordon will serve a minimum of 26 years, while Carpenter will …...Read More
‘Let’s resist the forces of division and hatred’: Mahatma Gandhi’s South African granddaughter Ela
April 08, 2024 12:47 pm | Updated 12:47 pm IST - Johannesburg (South Africa) “Hatred, animosity and violence are not part of any religious teachings and those who promote them in the name of religion are misinterpreting their faiths for mischievous reasons and should be shunned,” Ela Gandhi, South African …...Read More
Foreign Office 'rooted in the past' and needs replacing, former diplomats argue
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) should be scrapped and replaced with a new Department for International Affairs to modernise a "somewhat elitist" institution "rooted in the past", a new report argues. The recommendation comes from a group of former Whitehall officials and diplomats, including ex-cabinet secretary Lord Sedwill, …...Read More
'Exodus' of Assam Congress leaders started after Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma
April 08, 2024 12:26 pm | Updated 12:26 pm IST - Titabor (Assam) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed that an "exodus" of Congress leaders began after Rahul Gandhi's 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra' passed through the State. In an interview with PTI at Titabor in Jorhat district, Mr. Sarma …...Read More
Why do India’s Lok Sabha elections happen in the summer?
April 08, 2024 12:19 pm | Updated 12:33 pm IST January 1952, Bombay. Almost nine lakh residents, braving the cold weather, standing in long queues outside polling stations set up in industrial areas to vote in India’s first general elections. The “harsh climate” of India’s winters necessitated the world’s largest …...Read More
A brief history of EVMs in India | Explained
April 08, 2024 12:19 pm | Updated 12:19 pm IST The story so far: In 1982, the township of Paravur caught national media attention. The Kerala constituency, heading to routine Assembly polls, was picked to experiment with a novel, more efficient way of voting. So far, India’s 35-crore-strong electorate used …...Read More
Lok Sabha elections 2024 | BJP's Jitin Prasada seeks to ride the 'Modi wave' to win in Pilibhit
April 08, 2024 12:16 pm | Updated 12:16 pm IST - Pilibhit (UP) Dressed in a white kurta-pyjama and with a saffron scarf around his neck, Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister and BJP Lok Sabha candidate from Pilibhit, Jitin Prasada reads out the names of a few local party workers from …...Read More
