- India
App-based attendance weakening MGNREGA: Aruna Roy
New Delhi: As MGNREGA workers continue their 100-day protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar against the recently introduced app-based attendance system, social activist Aruna Roy on Friday said the new system is weakening…
- Hyderabad
YSRCP MP raises doubts over CBI probe into Vivekananda Reddy’s murder case
Hyderabad: YSR Congress Party Lok Sabha member from Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh Y S Avinash Reddy on Friday raised doubts over the ongoing investigations by the CBI into the murder of former…
- Education and Career
International students can apply for US visa a year in advance: State Department
Washington: In a much-needed relief for foreign students looking to study in the US, the Biden administration has announced they can now apply for a visa up to a year before their…
- India
BBC does not have an ‘agenda’, says chief to staff in India after I-T survey
London: The BBC is not driven by an “agenda” but by purpose and will not be put off reporting impartially and without fear or favour, the UK-headquartered media organisation’s chief has said days…
- Business
Rupee falls 11 paise to close at 82.75 against US dollar
Mumbai: The rupee depreciated 11 paise to close at 82.75 against the US currency on Friday, as the strength of the American currency in the overseas market and a muted trend in…
- India
Centre closely monitoring Punjab after Amritpal’s aide released from jail
New Delhi: The Centre is “closely monitoring” the situation in Punjab after supporters of preacher and Khalistani sympathiser Amritpal Singh stormed a police station to secure the release of an aide, officials…
- India
Bengal: English question paper appears on social media; state board rules out leak
Kolkata: Purported image of a few pages of the English second language question paper was circulated on social media, sometime after the class 10 state board examinations began in West Bengal on…
- Delhi
Special court should be careful before extending probe in anti-terror cases: HC
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court said on Friday that before granting further extension to a probe agency to complete investigation in a case lodged under the anti-terror law, a special court…
- Bangalore
Siddaramaiah charges Karnataka CM of presenting wrong info to hide BJP’s corruption
Bengaluru: Senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Friday accused Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai of using the Justice H S Kempanna Commission’s report to give wrong information in the Assembly regarding the Arkavathy…
- India
Nagpur: Man booked for raping woman on pretext of marriage; his siblings assault her
Nagpur: A 34-year-old man was booked in Nagpur for allegedly raping a woman on the pretext of marriage, while two of his brothers have been charged with assaulting her, a police official…
- India
Maha: Name change of Aurangabad and Osmanabad cities gets Centre’s nod
Mumbai: The Union government has approved the renaming of Maharashtra’s Aurangabad city as Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar’ and the Osmanabad city as Dharashiv’. Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis shared the news on Twitter.…
- World
FATF suspends Russia’s membership over Ukraine war
New Delhi: The FATF on Friday suspended Russia’s membership for its “illegal, unprovoked and unjustified” full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, an official statement said. Russia’s actions were “unacceptably run” counter to FATF’s…
- India
People chanting ‘Modi tera kamal khilega’: PM hits out at ‘kabar khudegi’ remark
Shillong: Hitting out at the Congress members, who had purportedly raised the Modi teri khabar khudegi’ slogan a day ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asserted that people, instead, are chanting…
- India
NGT forms panel for factual report on river Alaknanda pollution
New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal has formed a panel to obtain a factual report on a petition claiming the Alaknanda river, one of the two headstreams of the Ganga, was being…
- India
Unparliamentary conduct erodes people’s faith in democracy: LS Speaker Birla
Gangtok: Unparliamentary behaviour and the use of undesirable words in political discourse erode people’s faith in both democracy and democratic institutions, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said on Friday. Birla said Parliament…
