GUWAHATI: The scramble for a seat to study medicine in a government medical college may be education’s equivalent of the gold rush, but 21 of 100 MBBS berths in Manipur’s Churachandpur Medical College have found no takers this year even after the second round of counselling.Classes for the second MBBS batch are due to start … Read more
CHENNAI: Chief minister M K Stalin on Saturday condemned Union Home minister Amit Shah’s statement that there was a need to develop acceptance for the Hindi language without any kind of opposition, even if its pace was slow. “Our language and heritage define us – we won’t be enslaved by Hindi… Igniting the embers of … Read more
NEW DELHI: A special investigation team of Delhi Police returned to the capital on Tuesday after recording the statement of at least 10 people and conducting an in-depth, two-day probe at the residence of former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in UP’s Gonda district. There are indications … Read more
PATNA/LAURIA: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday lashed out at Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, by whom the BJP was dumped last year, and declared him a persona non grata “forever” to the NDA.Shah, who addressed a conclave of farmers and labourers in Patna hours after a rally in West Champaran district, alleged that … Read more
KOLHAPUR/BELAGAVI: A 300-strong contingent from the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance trying to enter Karnataka to protest denial of permission to attend a Marathi literary convention was stopped by Maharashtra Police on the border, stoking tension over the ongoing border conflict between the neighbours. The Belagavi administration in Karnataka clamped prohibitory orders in and around the … Read more
NEW DELHI: After eight years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rule, AFSPA has been removed from 23 districts of Assam, Union home minister Amit Shah, who is on a two-day trip to the state, said on Tuesday. “In the 1990s, AFSPA was implemented in Assam, and it was extended seven times. After eight years of … Read more
GUWAHATI: Union home minister Amit Shah said on Monday that the population Census, which was due in 2021 but had to be kept on hold due to the pandemic, will take place in a new avatar as an e-census that “will shape policies for the next 25 years”. Shah added that “birth and death registers … Read more
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi is now the template for what it means to be a “national leader”, home minister Amit Shah has said, asserting that the label was earlier handed out to even politicians of no proven merit and only capable of winning election from one or two safe Lok Sabha seats. While national … Read more
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is now the template for what it means and takes to be a “national leader”, Union home minister Amit Shah has said, asserting that the label was earlier handed out to even politicians of no proven merit and only capable of winning election from one or two safe Lok … Read more
KOLKATA: Union home minister Amit Shah ruled out at a Bengal BJP meeting on Friday the possibility of President’s Rule in the state as it would be improper to dismiss an elected government backed by a huge mandate. He asked the party’s Bengal unit not to get disheartened, but fight it out politically instead. His … Read more