By Nava J Thakuria After nearly hundreds of young people, precisely students, were killed by the government armed forces in liaison with the ruling party affiliates in Bangladesh, the country’s lone Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus made a clarion call to the international community including the United Nations to halt the murder of agitating Bangladeshi nationals across the south Asian nation. “The nationwide killing spree of Bangladeshi students and other citizens must be prevented. I urge the media outlets across the globe to come forward reporting the ground reality so that many precious lives can be saved,” said Prof Yunus,…
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Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday took a swipe at Congress MP Rahul Gandhi. Taking to social media platform X, Pradhan said, “May be Rahul Gandhi understands the fundamentals and maths of unfair practices too well. That explains why Congress govt failed to implement the bills to stop malpractices in educational institutions, including Prohibition of Unfair Practices Bill, 2010.” Pradhan’s remarks came after Rahul Gandhi targeted him and said, “There is a very serious problem in the country’s exam system. The Union education minister has blamed everybody except himself for the NEET-UG row.” Pradhan also targeted Akhilesh Yadav for raging…
Ahead of the union budget, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary on Monday said that Bihar will not be given a special status. His remarks came as a written reply to Janata Dal United (JDU) leader Ramprit Mandal’s question on special status. Mandal asked the minister to give details if Bihar is to get special status or provide the reason. In his written reply, Minister Chaudhary said that based on the 2012 report of the inter-ministerial group, Bihar cannot be given the status of a special state. He said that in the past, the National Development Council (NDC) had given…
India’s travel industry is thriving, benefiting from an unexpectedly busy monsoon season with a 25% increase in bookings compared to last year. President and Country Head for Holidays, MICE, Visa at Thomas Cook (India), Rajeev Kale, highlighted that discounts and promotions from airlines and hotels drive this increase. Hotel tariffs for monsoon favourites have dropped by 20-40%, with premium tariffs ranging from US$ 167.36 to 322.76 (Rs. 14,000 to Rs. 27,000) per night in Goa, US$ 143.45 to 537.93 (Rs. 12,000 to Rs. 45,000) per night in Kerala, and US$ 239.08 to 382.53 (Rs. 20,000 to Rs. 32,000) per night…
President Joe Biden announced Sunday he is ending his bid for a second term and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. The stunning and virtually unprecedented move comes in the wake of the president’s COVID-19 diagnosis on Wednesday, which prompted more calls from within his own Democratic Party for him to drop out of the race. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President,” he said in a statement on Sunday. “And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 46th Session of the World Heritage Committee Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. It is for the first time that India is hosting the World Heritage Committee Meeting. The session which starts today will commence on July 31, 2024, at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. He also addressed the event and announced a $1 million contribution to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. He said that the grant will help the countries, especially the Global South, in capacity building, technical assistance and world heritage site conservation. PM Modi said that last year India hosted the G20 with the theme of…
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday came down heavily on National Congress Party (SP) chief Sharad Pawar and called him the chief of corrupt people. He accused him of institutionalising the corruption in the country. Amit Shah made these remarks while addressing the Maharashtra BJP’s Pune session. He said, “The biggest chief of corruption is Sharad Pawar. If there is anyone who has institutionalised corruption in this country, it is Sharad Pawar. Now this won’t work.” Targeting Pawar for spreading lies, Shah accused him of exploiting the Maratha reservation issue for his political gains. He said, “Sharad Pawar is…
An all-party meeting, chaired by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, was held on Sunday ahead of the budget session which begins on Monday. The meeting, organised by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju, saw floor leaders of various political parties discuss the issues they plan to address during the session. The Congress sought the Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker’s position for the Opposition besides raising controversial issues like NEET-UG irregularities and question paper leaks. The Kanwar Yatra nameplate controversy was also raised by the opposition party. Party leader Gaurav Gogoi said the opposition should be allowed to raise issues in Parliament after Parliamentary…
After days of deadly protest that saw over 114 people dead, Bangladesh’s top court on Sunday scrapped the controversial quota system for government jobs. The court’s Appellate Division dismissed a lower court order that had reinstated the controversial quota system that reserved up to 30% of government jobs for relatives of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971. The protesting students were demanding to scrap the country’s quota system that reserves 30% of government jobs for families of the country’s freedom fighters, along with other reservations leaving just 44% of opportunities open to the students. The court…
In the latest development, the Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested three more individuals in the NEET-UG paper leak case. According to sources, the three arrested individuals include, Kumar Mangalam Bishnoi, Dipendra Kumar and Shashi Kumar Paswan. Shashi, a B.Tech (Electrical) pass out from the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, is one of the masterminds of the paper leak. Moreover, Bishnoi and Dipendra, second-year and first-year medical students at the Bharatpur Medical College respectively, were part of the solver gang. Shashi is an accomplice of Pankaj alias Aditya who was arrested earlier and stole the paper from the trunk from Hazaribagh. According to the information,…