Guwahati: Polling begins for seven Parliamentary constituencies of Assam, Tripura and Manipur in northeast India this morning under the second phase of 18th Lok Sabha elections. As the clock ticked past 7 am, the electoral process in Darrang-Udalguri, Diphu, Silchar, Karimganj and Nagaon seats of Assam along with Tripura East and Outer Manipur started. North-eastern…
A four-member group of Maoists entered Thalappuzha in Wayanad and ordered the residents to boycott the Lok Sabha elections. The communist terrorists, led by CP Moideen, reached an area near to Pandiyodu in Kambamala by 6.10 am. The residents of the area said that the communist terrorists reached the area carrying guns and spoke with…
The Karnataka government’s decision to categorise the entire Muslim community as a backward caste for reservation purposes in the state has drawn criticism from the National Commission for Backward Classes, which said such blanket categorisation undermines the principles of social justice. According to the data submitted by the Karnataka Backward Classes Welfare Department, all castes…
IMA should also put its house in order; address unethical practices in modern medicine, said Supreme Court New Delhi. IMA should put its house in order and address unethical practices in modern medicine and hospitals like prescribing expensive medicines which are unnecessary, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday. A Bench of Justice Hima Kohli and…
New Delhi. DRDO’s Defence Materials and Stores Research and Development Establishment (DMSRDE), Kanpur has successfully developed the lightest Bullet Proof Jacket in the country for protection against 7.62 x 54 R API (Level 6 of BIS 17051) ammunition. Recently, this bullet proof jacket was successfully tested at TBRL, Chandigarh as per BIS 17051-2018. This jacket…
As the biggest electoral show on the planet began on 19 April, where 969 million Indian eligible voters start exercising their franchise in the seven-phase polling conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to elect 543 members to the 18th Lok Sabha for the next five years, the far eastern part of Bharat has…
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expressed concern over the imprisonment of Habib-ur-Rahman Taseer, a local Afghan journalist associated with Radio Azadi/Radio Free Europe. According to Afghanistan Journalist Center, Taseer was detained by the Taliban regime of Afghanistan on 6 April and lately he has been sent to jail….
ABVP staged mass demonstrations across Karnataka demanding justice for Neha Hiremath, an MCA student of BVB College who was brutally murdered by her former classmate Mohammad Fayaz for rejecting his proposal. During the protest ABVP expressed its concern over the deteriorating law and order situation in the state and urged the government to take necessary…
New Delhi. Indian Institute of Astrophysics, an Autonomous body under the Department of science and Technology played a crucial role in the Surya Tilak Project at Ayodhya. Under the Surya Tilak project, sunlight was brought on the forehead of Shri RamLalla at 12 noon on the occasion of Shri Ram Navami. IIA team carried out…
New Delhi. DRDO conducted a successful flight-test of Indigenous Technology Cruise Missile (ITCM) from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off the coast of Odisha on April 18, 2024. During the test, all subsystems performed as per expectation. The missile performance was monitored by several Range Sensors like Radar, Electro Optical Tracking System (EOTS) and…
