NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Saturday pushed for a hybrid system of online and offline learning to avoid overexposure of technology to school-going children. Chaired a meeting to review the progress in the implementation of National Education Policy (NEP), the PM urged higher educational institutions to adopt online learning in a big way as … Read more
NEW DELHI: Amarnath yatra, which was suspended for the past two years due to Covid, appears to have generated much enthusiasm among pilgrims with over 1.5 lakh registrations made for the annual pilgrimage in the first 26 days of opening of bookings. This marks a 249% jump over the total 43,038 bookings received during the … Read more
NEW DELHI: Contending that the apex court’s six decades old verdict upholding validity of Section 124 A is a good law and balances constitutional rights and principles viz. needs of the State, the centre told the Supreme Court on Saturday there was no need to re-examine the judgement and opposed scrapping of the sedition provision … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Sunday defended the sedition law in front of the Supreme Court and said that “individual instances of misuse of Section 124A cannot be a ground for reconsideration of the law”. It further told the SC that the 1962 verdict of the top court in Kedar Nath Singh vs State of … Read more
NEW DELHI: With China systematically building roads, bridges and military positions along the entire 3,488-km Line of Actual Control during the continuing troop confrontation in eastern Ladakh, defence minister Rajnath on Saturday asked the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) to further enhance its capability through latest technology for faster development of infrastructure in border areas. “The … 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
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar discussed with his visiting Italian counterpart Luigi Di Maio regional and global issues including Ukraine, Indo-Pacific and Afghanistan. On Ukraine, the two ministers expressed concern on the ongoing humanitarian crisis and called for an immediate cessation of hostilities. “They also underlined the importance to safeguard the international order … Read more
NEW DELHI/MOHALI: In a span of six hours on Friday, BJP functionary Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga was arrested by Punjab police from his Delhi home, intercepted by Haryana police in Kurukshetra and handed over to Delhi police in a flurry of developments that pitted state police forces against one another and triggered a political slugfest. … Read more
KATHMANDU: An Indian climber has died in Nepal near the summit of the world’s third-highest peak, expedition organisers said Friday, the third fatality of this year’s busy Himalayan spring climbing season. Narayanan Iyer, 52, died Thursday at an altitude of 8,200 metres (26,900 feet), near the top of Mount Kanchenjunga. “He was slower than others … Read more
NEW DELHI: Punjab Police’s arrest of BJP leader Tajinder Bagga on Friday triggered a massive confrontation not just between the governments of Punjab and Haryana but also the Aam Aadmi Party and the BJP at the Centre. A spokesperson of the Delhi unit of BJP, Bagga was arrested for some allegedly objectionable tweets against Delhi … Read more