India

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 […]

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 […]

Families of more than 76 per cent of the doctors who caught and succumbed to Covid-19 on duty are yet to get compensation under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package, as per an RTI reply. According to the Indian Medical Association (IMA), the largest body of medical practitioners, more than 1800 doctors contracted the disease […]

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 […]