New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched a sharp attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Congress in the Lok Sabha on Monday for nurturing Naxalism in the country. He criticised Rahul Gandhi for reposting the provocative slogan “Tum kitne Hidma maroge, ghar ghar se Hidma niklega” – a slogan that left-wing extremism supporters shouted following neutralisation of dreaded Naxal Hidma. Hidma was absconding and carrying a reward for killing 172 security personnel. …
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New Delhi, March 19 (IANS) Senior IAS officer Ravi Mittal (2016 Chhattisgarh cadre) has been appointed as Deputy Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office, an official statement said on Thursday. “The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Shri Ravi Mittal, IAS (CG:2016) presently in the cadre as Deputy Secretary, Prime Minister’s Office, for a tenure of four years from the date of assumption of charge or until further orders, whichever is earlier,” said an o…
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) Newly appointed Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, will take the oath of office and secrecy on Wednesday.The swearing-in ceremony is scheduled to be held at 1:30 pm at Lok Niwas, where the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court will administer the oath, formally appointing him as the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of the national capital. Outgoing Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena has been appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh and is set to assume char…
Thiruvananthapuram, March 9 (IANS) Noted historian and public intellectual K. N. Panikkar passed away here on Monday. He was 90.He breathed his last at a private hospital here, where he had been undergoing treatment for age-related ailments.Panikkar was widely regarded as one of India’s most respected historians and a powerful voice in defence of secular and progressive scholarship.Over the decades, he emerged not only as a distinguished academic but also as a cultural activist, educationist, …
Kathmandu, March 8 (IANS) Nepali Congress President Gagan Thapa suffered a bitter defeat at the hands of Amaresh Kumar Singh of the all-conquering Rastriya Swatantra Party in this year’s parliamentary elections.The party’s prime ministerial candidate, Thapa, secured 22,831 votes in the polls held in Sarlahi-4 in Madhesh Province, against 35,688 votes polled by Singh, adding to the long list of heavyweight leaders to suffer a similar fate.Elected as president of the party just in January this yea…
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday said that several major educational institutions in the Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR) are playing an important role in supporting India Semiconductor Mission (ISM).These institutions are providing training in semiconductor design, testing, and validation.Key institutions include Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; National Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi; Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi…
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) The Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers’ Association (JNUTA) has written to Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan seeking a clarification on the Centre’s stand over the controversial casteist remarks made by JNU Vice Chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit. The JNUTA also demanded VC Pandit’s removal.In an open letter, JNUTA said VC Pandit’s podcast remarks were widely circulated and required an official response. It alleged she spoke of her political allegi…
New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) Fourteen Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) protesters, granted bail a day earlier, approached the Delhi High Court on Saturday to speed up the document verification process and other formalities to ensure their early release from Tihar jail, a lawyer said.On behalf of the protesters, their lawyers filed an application with the Registrar General of the High Court demanding an early hearing with a view to seeking their release even before the address verification formaliti…
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) A Delhi court on Friday granted bail to all 14 Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students who were arrested during a march from the varsity campus to the Union Ministry of Education (MoE).The accused, including three office-bearers of the JNU Students’ Union, were produced before the Patiala House Court after being arrested during a confrontation with police on Thursday. The court granted bail to all 14 students on a bond of Rs 25,000 each. During the hearing, the Delh…
New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS) The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) on Friday called for a complete university strike to protest the arrest of 13 students, including three office-bearers, during a march to the Ministry of Education (MoE). The union alleged that several students were “brutally attacked and injured” during the protest and claimed that a portrait of Babasaheb Ambedkar was damaged during police action. The arrested students have been produced in the Court as the D…