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Student protests highlight gaps in teachers, toilets and basic school infrastructure across India NEW DELHI: Another kind of student protest is beginning to surface on social media – schoolchildren demanding small fixes: a teacher, a usable toilet, a playground, sometimes even a proper road to school. The complaints may be local, but data suggests the…
SG Tushar Mehta asks CJI Surya Kant to examine APTEL’s functioning after Maharashtra govt flags alleged pro-private power developer bias New Delhi: Days after Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis flagged pro-private power developer bias of Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL) in a letter to PM Narendra Modi, solicitor general (SG) Tushar Mehta on Friday requested…
Delhi HC quashes ED proceedings, says agency cannot continue PMLA probe after closure of underlying FIR NEW DELHI: Delhi HC has taken a dim view of ED‘s move to rely on a six-year-old case to continue proceedings even though the FIR forming the basis of the case was closed. Justice Anish Dayal observed that despite…
US Ambassador Sergio Gor concludes J&K, Ladakh visit; meets Omar Abdullah, visits Thiksey Monastery. SRINAGAR: US ambassador to India Sergio Gor Friday concluded his visit to Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, with his much-speculated meeting with Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama not taking place. Gor did not meet any political leader in Ladakh.“Ambassador Sergio…
Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami felicitating lakhpati didi Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday inaugurated Chaupal–2026 under the Chief Minister Udyamshala Yojana at the Mukhya Sevak Sadan located at the chief minister’s camp office. On the occasion, he said that more than 13,000 entrepreneurs across the state have so far been supported through…
New Delhi: BJP Friday said Rahul Gandhi had orchestrated the “drama” of sitting on dharna in a police station as a diversionary ploy after Congress came under flak across the country over its stand on Vande Mataram.“Rahul manufactured this drama suddenly as a cover for his anti-national stand and to divert attention from this big…
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday hosted a joint delegation from Japan and India, emphasising that youth exchanges are pivotal to driving the next chapter of bilateral relations as the two nations approach a major milestone in their diplomatic history.Speaking at an interaction in Lucknow with Yamanashi Governor Kotaro Nagasaki, 13…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the world is looking at India as a “bright spot of growth and hope”, stressing that the country’s reform journey has shifted from a “punishment model” under the earlier licence raj governments to an incentive-based approach.Addressing the Economic Times World Leaders Forum 2026, PM Modi said…
NEW DELHI: Bribes.fyi began as a side project and, within 48 hours, clocked 5 million requests and 2 lakh new users. It shut down as suddenly as its meteoric rise took social media by surprise.Built by 20-year-old Delhi BTech student Aryan Nishad, it displayed a neon-red map of India for anonymous reports of alleged bribe…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the FIR registered over student protester Sahil Lochab’s alleged pellet-gun injury during the July 20 march is the “first step towards justice”.Showing a copy of the FIR, the Congress leader claimed that the “final okay” for registering the case had to come from…
