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New MP chambers won’t be ready by March next year as govt yet to finalise building plan | India News
NEW DELHI: The new Parliament building is all set for inauguration this Sunday, but the government’s original plan to build chambers for around 800 MPs by March 2024 is almost an impossibility. That’s because the government is yet to finalise the building plan even months after it had floated a tender inviting bids for the … Read more
Parliament: PM Modi to inaugurate new Parliament building on May 28 | India News
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the new Parliament building on May 28, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla informed on Thursday.Earlier today, Om Birla met PM Modi and invited him to inaugurate the new Parliament building in the national capital. “Construction of the new Parliament building is complete now and the new building … Read more
‘Sane views’: Kiren Rijiju shares video of ex-judge amid judiciary-govt standoff | India News
NEW DELHI: Amid an apparent discord between the government and judiciary over the appointment of judges, law minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday sought to support the views of a retired high court judge, who said the Supreme Court “hijacked” the Constitution by deciding to appoint judges itself.Rijiju shared the video of an interview of Justice … Read more
‘New school texts to have balanced gender depiction’ | India News
NEW DELHI: The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) will work towards bringing a balanced perspective on all genders in the new National Curriculum Framework (NCF) and in its textbooks, said the report of a parliamentary panel.NCERT is currently designing the four curriculum frameworks – early childhood education, school education, teacher education and … Read more
Government plans regulator for higher education | India News
NEW DELHI: The government is likely to introduce the Bill to set up an overarching regulatory body for higher education — Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) — in the monsoon season of Parliament in July. The proposed commission will have powers to enforce academic quality standards and order the closure of sub-standard institutions. Non-compliance … Read more
I have ‘blocked’ numbers of those in establishment: Imran Khan
ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has claimed that the establishment is calling him but he has blocked their numbers and will not speak to anyone until a date for the general election is announced, contending that dropping an atom bomb on the country would be better than having “criminals” at the helm of … Read more
Caste Certs At Birth In Up: Bid To Bond With Welfare Doles | Lucknow News
LUCKNOW: The birth certificate officially gets a twin in UP: the caste certificate. A meeting chaired by CM Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday decided to institutionalise dual certificates — of birth and caste — for every newborn child within 15 days of an application being made. The decision is seen as an extension of BJP’s renewed … Read more