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Textbooks not revised to please or offend anyone: NCERT chief
New Delhi: The recent changes in textbooks have not been made to please or offend anyone, rather these are purely based on the recommendations made by experts, said NCERT Director Dinesh Prasad…
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SC declines another plea against renaming Aurangabad city
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a petition challenging the Maharashtra government’s decision to rename Aurangabad city as ‘Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar’. A bench of Chief Justice of India…
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Hyderabad: Muslim couple file complaint after right-wing ‘harassment’
Hyderabad: A Muslim couple filed a police complaint stating that they have been allegedly targeted by certain sections of the right-wing Hindu community by exposing their personal details such as phone numbers,…
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WB: Post Ram Navami violence, VHP to hold 500 Hanuman Jayanti events
Kolkata: Amid the furore over violence during celebration of Ram Navami in West Bengal, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has decided to conduct 500 Hanuman Jayanti programmes across the state on Thursday.…
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Reference to Gujarat riots dropped from NCERT class 11 Sociology book
New Delhi: A portion referring to the Gujarat riots has been dropped from the class 11 Sociology textbook by NCERT, months after it removed the reference to the 2002 communal violence in…
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‘Why I killed Gandhi’ may become moral lesson: Owaisi on NCERT row
Hyderabad: The All India Majilis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi warned on Wednesday that removing any references to the 2002 Gujarat riots from NCERT textbooks will ‘make our kids intellectually poorer and…
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Akhand Hindu Rashtra dream must reach Makkah: Yati Narsinghanand
The 58-year-old head of Dasna Devi temple in Uttar Pradesh, Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati, delivered a hate speech recently at a two-day event named Hindu Jagruti Samelan (Awakening the Kshatriya) organised by Nyay…
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Pakistan vs UK on ‘grooming gangs’ abusing white English girls
Islamabad: Condemning UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s “discriminatory and xenophobic” remarks against Pakistani men, the Pakistan Foreign Office (FO) on Tuesday warned of the serious repercussions of such comments, media reports said.…
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Bengaluru: 2 days post launch by PM Modi, metro station floods
Severe rains in Bengaluru Friday evening caused flooding at the Nallurhalli metro station, only two days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the 13.71-kilometre phase II of the Bengaluru Metro. The PM…
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Muslim cattle trader murder: 5 cow vigilantes held in Rajasthan
Bengaluru: Five cow vigilantes, including main accused Puneeth Kerehalli, who allegedly beat a man to death for transporting cows and buffaloes, were arrested on Wednesday. The Sathanur police arrested the accused, on…
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BRS demands disqualification of Bandi Sanjay from Parliament
Hyderabad: The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on Wednesday demanded disqualification of Karimnagar Lok Sabha MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar following his arrest in 10th class paper leak case. State ministers and other BRS…
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SC quashes Centre’s ban on MediaOne, states ‘critical views not anti-establishment’
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed the Centre’s denial of security clearance to Malayalam news channel MediaOne, and pulled up the Ministry of Home Affairs for raising national security claims…
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Telangana BJP MLAs detained amid protests over Bandi Sanjay’s arrest
Hyderabad: Telangana police detained BJP MLAs Raghunandan Rao and Eatala Rajender and other leaders on Wednesday while the BJP has called for state-wide protests against the arrest of party’s state unit president…
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Israeli cops attack Palestinian worshippers at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque
Dozens of Palestinian worshippers were injured after Israeli occupation forces raided the Al-Qibili prayer hall in the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City, early on Wednesday. Raising fears of wider tensions as…
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SSC question paper leak controversy: Staff to undergo frisking at exam centers
Hyderabad: The recent controversy of the SSC question paper leak in Telangana has prompted authorities to take additional precautions in the remaining examinations. From now onward, not only students, but the staff…
