MODI TO FLAG OFF FIRST HYDROGEN TRAIN IN HARYANA ON FRIDAY
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister will flag off India’s first hydrogen-powered train between Jind and Sonipat at Jind railway station on Friday.With this, India would join a select group of countries that have operational hydrogen-powered trains. The prime minister will lay the foundation stone and launch various development projects worth around Rs 14,700 crore at Eklavya […]
CENTRE TIGHTENS EXIT RULE OF ISRO SCIENTISTS
NEW DELHI: The Department of Space (DoS) has issued a new directive to major space research centres of the ISRO, tightening rules on voluntary retirement and resignations amid a mass exodus in the Indian space agency. The memorandum, issued on July 14 to centres like the UR Rao Satellite Centre (URSC) and the Vikram Sarabhai […]
SC SUGGESTS THIRD LANGUAGE FROM CLASS 5 OR 6 AND NOT FROM CLASS 9
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court expressed concern over the introduction of a third language in Class 9 under the CBSE curriculum, observing that it could increase the stress levels of students. The Apex Court suggested that the third language be introduced in Class 5 or Class 6 to enable students to cope with it more […]
SC OKAYS SHIFTING OF UTTARAKHAND HIGH COURT FROM NAINITAL TO HALDWANI
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has paved the way for the shifting of the Uttarakhand High Court from Nainital to Haldwani by setting aside the High Court’s order directing the holding of a referendum among lawyers and litigants to decide whether the High Court should be shifted. Setting aside the 2024 High Court direction for […]
2 LUCKNOW VARSITY LAW STUDENTS HELD FOR DISRUPTING SUPREME COURT
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police have arrested two law students Prabal Pratap Singh (24) and Chander Bhan (23) of the Lucknow University who abused the Chief Justice Surya Kant and threw papers in the Supreme Court on July 10, after a case was registered against them on the statement of Supreme Court security staff. An FIR […]
SC RAPS PATNA HC OVER “GRABBING BREASTS NOT ATTEMPT TO RAPE” RULING
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up the Patna High Court for holding that attempting to remove a woman’s salwar and pressing her chest did not amount to an attempt to rape, with the Chief Justice of India expressing concern over the “lack of thorough research” before such judgments are delivered. The issue […]
RESIDENTS ESCAPE NOIDA BUILDING BLAZE USING MAKESHIFT BAMBOO BRIDGE
(Photo) Courtesy : Free Press Journal NEW DELHI: Desperate residents made a makeshift bridge with bamboo sticks and a wooden ladder to escape a massive fire that engulfed their four-storey building in Noida’s Sector 66. The fire, which started on the ground floor, soon spread upwards and dense smoke engulfed the upper floors of the […]
FRANCE SHUTS ITS 3 NUCLEAR REACTORS
NEW DELHI: France switched off three nuclear reactors and cut output at several more this week, after rivers meant to cool them grew too warm to use safely. India’s coastal and inland reactors face a different risk. Somewhere on the banks of the Garonne, the Rhone and the Meuse, three French nuclear reactors have gone […]
SACHIN PILOT TO BE CM FACE IN RAJASTHAN
NEW DELHI: Even though the next Rajasthan Assembly election is still more than two years away, Congress leader Sachin Pilot’s two-day tour of the Mewar-Vagad tribal belt has triggered fresh political discussion. Over two days, Pilot, who is one of the AICC general secretaries, travelled through Banswara, Dungarpur, Salumber and Udaipur, met Congress workers, attended […]
SHARAD PAWAR’S MOVE IN LATE NIGHT MEETINGS WITH CM DEVENDRA FADNAVIS
NEW DELHI: Late-night meetings in Mumbai between senior leaders from both factions of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday reignited speculation over Sharad Pawar’s next move, with both camps simultaneously grappling with questions over their political future. NCP (SP) state president Jayant Patil first met Sharad Pawar at his […]
