Online Sports Desk The snatch event is done, and Martina Devi Maibam remains firmly in the fight. The Indian sits fifth after successfully lifting 105kg on her final attempt to stay in the competition. She trails the joint leaders by 10kg and is 8kg behind the bronze-medal position, but the clean and jerk is considered…
New Delhi: The amendment makes insulting the National Song, Vande Mataram, a criminal offence. It seeks to provide the song with legal protection similar to the safeguards already available to the National Anthem, Jana Gana Mana. The legislation amends the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971. The existing law penalises intentional disrespect towards…
New Delhi: Vice chancellors and academic leaders have strongly condemned Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi for mocking IIT Madras Director Prof. V. Kamakoti as a “gaumutra expert” (cow urine expert) during a Lok Sabha debate on examination reforms. During a discussion in the Lok Sabha on the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, Congress…
Guwahati: Nearly 13,000 households in flood-affected areas of Assam still do not have any electricity connection, almost 11 days after several districts were ravaged by an unprecedented mud-filled deluge. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that the administration is continuously evaluating the flood situation in Upper Assam and accordingly taking decisions to restore power connections…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is chairing a high-level meeting with senior Union ministers and top government officials in New Delhi on Thursday, according to CNN-News18. The agenda of the meeting was not immediately known. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal,…
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said students deserve justice and asserted that an independent Supreme Court-monitored high-powered committee must be constituted to probe the ‘brutalities’ against them. The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha also shared on X a video clip of police lathi-charging students. ‘Students deserve justice. An independent SC-monitored…
New Delhi: Amid tight security, polling began for the Assembly by-elections in Bihar’s Bankipur, Madhya Pradesh’s Datia and Gujarat’s Manjalpur constituencies on Thursday, with elaborate arrangements in place to ensure free, fair and peaceful voting. Officials said Polling for the Bankipur assembly by-election in Bihar began at 7 AM. Around 3.80 lakh voters are eligible to…
New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday passed a bill to make insult to the national song ‘Vande Mataram’ a criminal offence, ending the over-week-long impasse by taking up the legislative agenda amid the Opposition’s uproar over police action against students protesting NEET paper leak. The Opposition, led by the Congress, staged a walkout as…
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Wednesday said the government should stop troubling protesting students, saying they are not terrorists but are the future of the country. He also said the youth will change the government if it does not fall in line. Dipke was talking to reporters at the Chhatrapati…
New Delhi: Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Wednesday said in Lok Sabha that no bullet was fired on students protesting in the national capital against the NEET fiasco as he dismissed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s allegations that Union Home Minister Amit Shah had ordered firing on students. Replying to the debate on the Public Examination…
