Communities Secretary Michael Gove has named five groups that will be re-assessed as a result of the government's new definition of extremism. Speaking in the Commons, Mr Gove said two far-right organisations - the British National Socialist Movement and the Patriotic Alternative - and three Islamist organisations - the Muslim …...Read More
Michael Gove names far-right and Islamist groups which could fall under fresh extremism definition
Madras High Court rejects plea to grant Indian citizenship to children born at Sri Lankan Tamil refugee camps
March 14, 2024 03:25 pm | Updated 03:26 pm IST - CHENNAI The Madras High Court on Thursday, March 14, 2024 refused to issue a general direction to the Centre to grant Indian citizenship to all children born at the special camps for Sri Lankan refugees in Tamil Nadu. The …...Read More
Obscure trust links India's top businesses with Modi's election war chest
March 14, 2024 03:15 pm | Updated 04:01 pm IST - NEW DELHI Behind the doors of a small, nondescript office in the heart of New Delhi lies the headquarters of an electoral trust run by just two men that is the largest-known donor to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party …...Read More
Met Police pays £10,000 to woman arrested at Sarah Everard vigil
The Metropolitan Police has paid out £10,000 to a woman arrested at a vigil for Sarah Everard. Jennifer Edmunds was arrested on 13 March, 2021, as she mourned Everard, who had died at the hands of policeman Wayne Couzens. At the vigil for the 33-year-old victim, Met officers clashed with …...Read More
2024 Lok Sabha polls | AAP releases first list of 8 candidates for Punjab, fields 5 Cabinet Ministers
March 14, 2024 02:45 pm | Updated 03:27 pm IST - Chandigarh The Aam Aadmi Party on March 14 released its first list of eight candidates for Punjab, fielding five Cabinet Ministers for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. According to the list, Cabinet Ministers Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal has been fielded …...Read More
Election Commissioners appointment | Ex-bureaucrats Sukhbir Sandhu, Gyanesh Kumar named EC
March 14, 2024 02:31 pm | Updated 03:19 pm IST - New Delhi Former bureaucrats Sukhbir Singh Sandhu from Punjab and Gyanesh Kumar from Kerala have been named as the new Election Commissioners by a panel chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, committee member and Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury …...Read More
Firefighter injured and MSP among 100 residents evacuated from flats as crews tackle Edinburgh fire
A firefighter has been injured and around 100 residents - including an MSP - have been evacuated from a block of flats after a fire broke out in the early hours of the morning. Around 70 firefighters continue to tackle the blaze in Breadalbane Street, Edinburgh. The alarm was raised …...Read More
Sudha Murty takes oath as Rajya Sabha MP
March 14, 2024 02:12 pm | Updated 02:12 pm IST - New Delhi Engineer-turned-philanthropist Sudha Murty on March 14 took oath as Rajya Sabha MP in the presence of her husband N R Narayana Murthy. Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar administered the oath in his chamber in Parliament House. Leader …...Read More
Watch | Hockey legend KD Singh Babu’s ancestral home soon to be a museum
March 14, 2024 01:57 pm | Updated 01:57 pm IST This sprawling house of two-time Olympic Gold Medallist hockey player KD Singh Babu, will soon be a tourist attraction The Uttar Pradesh government plans to convert the ancestral mansion in Barabanki, near Lucknow, into a museum Who is KD Singh? …...Read More
If voted to power, INDIA alliance to be voice of farmers: Rahul Gandhi
March 14, 2024 01:51 pm | Updated 01:51 pm IST - Nashik Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on March 14 said the opposition INDIA alliance, if voted to power, will be the "voice of farmers" and frame policies to protect them. He was addressing a farmers' rally at Chandwad in Maharashtra's …...Read More
