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BSP chief Mayawati. File | Photo Credit: PTI Hitting back at Rahul Gandhi for questioning her party’s present political approach, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati on Friday (February 21, 2025) accused the Congress of fighting the Delhi Assembly polls as the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) ‘B’ team. Her remarks came a day after the…
Veena Reddy serves as the current Director of United States Agency for International Development’s Mission in India and Bhutan | Photo Credit: Veena Reddy/X Ever since U.S. President Donald Trump spoke about a “$21 million USAID funding for voter turnout in India,” allegations of “foreign interference“ in Indian elections arose. The BJP has accused the…
Highlighting the complexities of the current geopolitical landscape, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has said the G20’s ability to harmonise viewpoints is key to advancing the global agenda. Mr. Jaishankar is in Johannesburg on a two-day visit to South Africa to participate in the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, Addressing the G20 session titled ‘Discussion on…
The Kerala High Court has directed M.S. Shuhaib, CEO and founder of MS Solutions who has been charged with allegedly leaking Class 10 question papers for the Onam and Christmas exams through his YouTube channel, to appear before the police probe team on February 22. This was after he submitted an anticipatory bail plea. His…
Sipping a cup of hot filter coffee, 32-year-old Arun Kumar wears a faraway and worried look. Braving the stench of urine that fills the air, he carries his coffee up the stairs littered with paper cups and plastic bags. There is no missing the gutka stains on the walls all along. Mr. Kumar’s day begins…
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has assured that the Centre will implement 27% reservations for the Other Backward Castes (OBCs) in the Central universities in Hyderabad and also appoint the Vice-Chancellor of the English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) at the earliest. Mr. Pradhan assured this in a written reply to Bhongir MP Chamala Kiran…
Disability rights activists in Delhi are building a coalition to get a key provision of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 dropped or amended. Section 9(1) of the Act has clubbed children with persons with disabilities (PwDs) to mandate that even in cases of adult PwDs who have legal guardians, consent for use…
Karnataka Higher Education Academy chairman M. Chandra Poojary has said there has been no conducive environment for free exchange of views on many issues at present times. He took part in a panel discussion held as part of the convention on “Knowledge in Society” at Kuvempu University on Thursday. “Can I freely counter the claims…
A junior assistant of Tenkasi municipality has been placed under suspension for not paying the deposits to the tune of ₹21 lakh collected from contractors in the municipality’s bank account. Sources in Tenkasi municipality said Junior Assistant in the urban civic body Kidharoli Raja Mohammed, who was collecting the deposits from the contractors executing the…
A view of the building construction work at the IIT Palakkad campus on Thursday, showing it either midway through or halted. | Photo Credit: K. K. Mustafah Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Palakkad, the premier engineering institute in Kerala, is facing a major developmental hurdle because of a dispute between a construction contractor and the…
