The Election Commission of India said it gave a patient hearing to AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, at a very short notice today and received his reply, on Friday (January 31, 2025). The Full Commission, without getting swayed by personal insinuations and offensive strategy being in play, decided to examine the reply in detail and take […]
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday (January 31, 2025) presented the Economic Survey 2024-25 in the Lok Sabha. The Economic Survey is an annual document presented by the government ahead of the Union Budget to review the state of the economy. The document also provides an overview of the short-to-medium-term prospects of the economy. The […]
Quoting French novelist Victor Hugo, the Finance Minister Manmohan Singh presenting his maiden budget in July 1991 held, “No power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come”. Explaining the reference to India becoming a major economic power in the world thereon, he stated, “Let the whole world hear it loud and clear. […]
The Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights has registered a suo motu case over the alleged suicide of a 14-year-old boy on January 15, which his family had since attributed to ragging at his school. The Kochi City police had earlier launched an inquiry into the incident after his mother petitioned the Chief […]
A bomb threat was received by a veterinary college at Pookode in Wayanad district of Kerala on Friday (January 31, 2025) morning but was ruled out as a hoax by the police after an extensive search of the institute by the bomb and dog squads. According to K.S. Anil, the vice chancellor of the Kerala […]
The Supreme Court of India on Friday (January 31, 2025) rejected an application seeking permission to conduct ‘Urs’ festival from February 1 to February 3, 2025 at a now demolished dargah in Gujarat’s Gir Somnath district. A Bench of Justices B.R. Gavai and Augustine George Masih noted the submissions of Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing […]
Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, along with Minister for Health C. Damodar Raja Narasimha, laid the foundation stone for the new Osmania General Hospital (OGH) in Goshamahal, Hyderabad, on Friday (January 31, 2025). Police threw a security dragnet in the area expecting trouble from local politicians. However, the event passed off peacefully. The new […]
The government’s third term is seeing work being done at thrice the speed of previous administrations with a determination to end “policy paralysis”, President Droupadi Murmu said on Friday (January 31, 2025), citing decisions on issues such as Waqf boards and One Nation, One Election. Addressing a joint session of Parliament, signalling the start of […]
Auto Nagar, one of the largest automotive hubs in the country, is akin to an engine running in full throttle. On its main road swarm innumerable people and vehicles, and in its air lingers the odour of diesel and old grease. When, however, one enters the dusty and wide lane of the 4th Cross Road, […]
India’s southwest coast has seen a steady rise in extreme rainfall events, increasing at a rate of 0.23 mm per season, according to a study by a team of researchers from the Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat), European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), and the UK Met Office. The research, […]
