Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his election rally speech in Rajasthan over the weekend, Congress and Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Monday questioned whether 200 million Muslims in the country matter to him or not adding that Election Commission of India must issue notice to Prime Minister over his comments.
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How AIM for SEVA is changing lives, one student at a time
AIM for SEVA, a non-profit founded by Swami Dayananda Saraswati is a global charity. In the Bay area, the initiative is led by his disciple Vijay Kapoor with the help of a dedicated team of volunteers. The organization enables students in rural and tribal parts of India to access quality, holistic education through its chatralayas [hostels] and schools. It started with a modest number of 40 students and is currently educating 9000 students, of whom 4000 stay in the chatralayas full-time.
Private weather firm Skymet forecasts ‘below normal’ monsoon for India
Private weather forecasting agency Skymet on Monday said that it expects the upcoming monsoon to be ‘below normal’ to the tune of 94 per cent, with an error margin of 5 per cent, of the long period average (LPA) of 868.6 mm for the four-month long period from June to September.
Covid wave looms as India’s population-level immunity wanes: WHO SE Asia Chief
Decreasing levels of immunity in our population may trigger new Covid waves and to tackle this, India needs a strong disease surveillance along with high vaccine coverage, WHO Regional Director, South-East Asia, Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh has stressed.
Justice Katju: On Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at Cambridge University
Justice Katju says: Recently Rahul Gandhi, a leader of the Congress Party in India, spoke at Cambridge University in England. The thrust of his speech was that democracy was a good thing, but democracy and democratic institutions were in danger in India (under the ruling BJP party).
Lithium deposits found in Jammu & Kashmir, to help India’s EV dreams
In what could prove to be a big boost to India’s Electronic Vehicle and net-zero carbon emission dreams, the geological survey of India found 5.9 million tonnes of lithium reserves in Jammu and Kashmir.
Ambanis’ son Anant engaged to Radhika Merchant in Rajasthan
Industrialist Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani’s son Anant Ambani got engaged to Radhika Merchant, daughter of Viren Merchant and Shaila Merchant, in Rajasthan on Thursday, an official said in Mumbai.
Delhi, North India gripped by severe cold wave
Dense fog and cold wave conditions continued to sweep New Delhi, the national capital with the city recording a minimum temperature of 7.8 degrees Celsius on Wednesday morning.
‘Indians love to follow a Pied Piper of Hamelin’
Rahul Gandhi has been talking a lot these days of uniting India and is doing a Bharat Jodo Yatra for this purpose.
Justice Katju: ‘Hindi is already the link language of India’
Justice Katju: A controversy has arisen in India over the decision of the Madhya Pradesh government of teaching in Hindi in medical colleges in the state. In this article, I will not go into the correctness or otherwise of this decision, but will instead discuss the general issue relating to Hindi, particularly in the light of the strong opposition to it in the state of Tamil Nadu.
The situation of personal liberty in India
Justice Markandey Katju- Justice Markandey Katju is a former Judge, Supreme Court of India, and former Chairman, Press Council of India. The views expressed are his own. In his Hamlyn Lecture, Lord Denning, the celebrated Judge of England, said, ” Whenever one of the King’s judges takes his seat in Court there is one application […]
Gujarat rewards Prime Minister Modi’s BJP even more after 27 years
Mayank Chhaya- For 34 years between 1977 and 2011 the Left Front, with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPM as its main constituent, ruled the state of West Bengal. With its thumping electoral victory in Gujarat’s just concluded assembly elections the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has moved a step closer to repeating that […]