India has reiterated that the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan will remain in abeyance until Islamabad ends its support to terrorism. India’s Permanent Representative to U.N. P. Harish said Pakistan must uphold the sanctity of human life before raising treaty concerns, calling it a global epicentre of terror. He said India signed the 1960 treaty…
The BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) took centre stage and announced a massive cash prize of Rs 131 crore for the Men in Blue after they won the T20 World Cup 2026. It is worth noting that the Indian team defeated New Zealand in the summit clash of the tournament by 96…
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has advocated for the nationwide implementation of the Uniform Civil Code, modelled after the one in Uttarakhand, terming it essential for unifying society.At a former servicemen’s event on Monday evening to mark the 100th anniversary of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Bhagwat said, “It would be a very good thing if…
The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed a recent University Grants Commission (UGC) regulation after various pleas were filed contending that the Commission adopted a non-inclusionary definition of caste-based discrimination and excluded certain categories from institutional protection.A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi issued notices to the Centre and the UGC on…
President Droupadi Murmu on Monday conferred India’s highest peacetime gallantry award, Ashoka Chakra, to Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who created history by becoming the first Indian to set foot on the International Space Station (ISS).The President presented the award to Shukla at the Republic Day celebrations at the Kartavya Path, the centrepiece boulevard of the…
President Droupadi Murmu will address the nation on Sunday on the eve of the Republic Day, her office has said.The address will be broadcast from 7 pm on the entire national network of Akashvani and telecast over all channels of Doordarshan in Hindi followed by the English version, it said on Saturday.The broadcast of the…
In a bid to piece together the precise sequence of events before the blast near Red Fort, the investigators have prepared a detailed list of each vehicle that entered the nearby parking area where the exploded car was stationed for three hours, an official said on Saturday.They are tracking down the registration numbers of these…
In an apparent attack at the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said important stanzas of the national song “Vande Mataram” were dropped in 1937 which sowed the seeds of partition and asserted that such a “divisive mindset” is still a challenge for the country.Modi made the comments while inaugurating the year-long commemoration of…
In the event of objection by first wife, the registrar must refrain from proceeding and refer the parties to a competent civil court to establish the validity of marriage under personal law. The Kerala High Court recently held that a Muslim man’s second marriage cannot be registered under the Kerala Registration of Marriages (Common) Rules,…
Article 370 Abrogation Impact: Since the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35-A from Jammu and Kashmir on August 5, 2019, the significant changes in the land policies of the region are now clearly visible on the ground. For the first time, the Jammu and Kashmir government has officially revealed that 631 people from other states…
