A day after his deputy accused the BJP and the lieutenant governor of trying to shut down free yoga classes, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said that the session would continue for the public. The AAP government launched free yoga classes for the public at 590 locations in Delhi last year. Amid an […]
CNN anchor Becky Anderson got schooled by Union Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on how Europe continues to be the largest importer of Russian oil at a recent interview in the CNN studio. Anderson miserably failed at guilt tripping India for buying Russian oil as Puri responded to her loaded questions with facts. She began […]
Ahead of Assembly elections in Gujarat, the Union home ministry has issued an order instructing the district collectors of Anand and Mehsana to grant citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jews, and Christians who fled religious persecution in neighbouring countries. In the order released by its foreigners’ division, the ministry has asked the district administrations to […]
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, IIT (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad and National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela for the establishment of ‘BIS Standardization Chair Professor’ at these institutes. In a statement, BIS said the initiative is aimed at […]
BJP leader Kapil Mishra on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on a group of independent digital news portals called DIGIPUB India that alleged “malafide intentions” in police searches at the residences of senior editors of The Wire. Mishra called the group’s members “urban naxals”. His barbs were directed at the two journalists who signed off […]
Gyaneshwar Singh, the deputy director general of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), who investigated the allegations against controversial officer Sameer Wankhede in the Mumbai drugs-on-the-cruise case involving superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan, has been divested of the charge of the south-west region. Singh was holding additional charge of the region which includes Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, […]
CBDCs are essentially central bank approved variant of digital money, a safer option than cryptocurrency which is difficult to regulate by government agencies and can be used for various illegal activities.
Internet giant Google temporarily halted enforcement of its requirement for developers to use its Play billing system for the purchase of digital goods and services days after India’s antitrust regulator imposed ₹936.44 crore for abusing its market position. Last week, Google India was found guilty by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) of abusing its […]
Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday in a filing that he will be the Chief Executive Officer of Twitter, the micro-blogging site he took over paying a sum of $44 billion. Currently Musk calls himself “chief twit”. He has fired the entire board, giving him unbridled control over Twitter. Earlier, Tesla CEO had fired Twitter CEO Parag […]
The collective of independent digital news portals, DIGIPUB India, on Monday condemned Delhi Police searches in the homes of the editors of The Wire.