Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday made a big statement regarding the crime against women by emphasising strict punishment against the perpetrators. He said, “We are strengthening laws to ensure stringent punishment for those perpetrating crimes against women.” PM Modi was speaking at an event in Maharashtra’s Jalgaon. He interacted with ‘Lakhpati Didis’ – women members of self-help groups who earn Rs 1 lakh annually – at the event and also felicitated 11 lakh new ‘Lakhpati Didis’ who achieved the mark during the third term of his government. During the event, he disbursed bank loans of Rs 5,000 crore, which…
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Political strategist Prashant Kishor made a significant announcement regarding his political campaign, Jan Suraaj, on Sunday, revealing that the party will contest all 243 seats in the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections, with at least 40 women candidates in the fray. Elaborating on his party’s plans, Prashant Kishor stated, “In 2025, Jan Suraaj will contest on 243 seats, and at least 40 women candidates will be nominated. We have also pledged that by 2030, 70-80 women leaders will emerge from our party.” Last week, Prashant Kishor announced that Jan Suraaj is likely to contest the upcoming Assembly by-elections in the Bela…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has received an invitation from Pakistan for the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit which is scheduled for October this year. Islamabad is set to host the Council of Heads of Government (CHG) meeting on October 15-16 as it currently holds the rotating chairmanship of the council. It is improbable that Modi will visit Islamabad, though it is still uncertain whether he will appoint a minister to represent India, as has happened before. Although PM Modi typically attends heads of state summits, he missed the recent one in Kazakhstan due to a scheduling conflict with a…
Ahead of the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Peoples Democratic Party Chief Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday made a huge announcement during the release of the party manifesto. After releasing the manifesto, she said that if it was acceptable for the National Conference and Congress, she would extend her support to their alliance and would not contest for any seat. ‘If NC and congress are ready to accept our manifesto and agree on a resolution of the Kashmir issue, we will support them without fighting on any seat,’ said Mehbooba Manifesto. It is pertinent to note that three-phased elections are…
In a major announcement, the Union cabinet on Saturday approved the Unified Pension Scheme (UPS) which is expected to benefit over 23 lakh government employees who joined service under the National Pension System (NPS). Briefing the cabinet decision, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the new scheme will be implemented from April 1, 2025 and employees will have the option to choose between the NPS or UPS.The cabinet meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. An official statement has listed assured pension, family pension, minimum pension and inflation indexation as the salient features of the UPS. Government employees will now…
Terming Naxal violence as a challenge to democracy, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday that the country will be freed from left-wing extremism by March 2026. A total of 17,000 people have lost their lives in the country due to Naxal violence so far, Shah said, adding that a strong and ruthless strategy is required for launching the last assault against the ultras. Shah, however, noted that there was a 53 per cent drop in Naxal incidents in the country during 2014-24 as compared to 2004-14 period.“I appeal to Naxals to give up violence and surrender,” he said…
Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, strongly condemns the killing of two reporters during a military raid in Mon State of Myanmar and demands a fair probe to the incident that led to the death of Htet Myat Thu and Win Htut Oo on 21 August 2024. Burmese media outlets reported that the junta soldiers raided the house of Htet Myat Thu (27) in Kyaikto township on Wednesday in search of pro-democracy armed insurgents, but ended up indiscriminately firing that seemingly killed the reporter with ‘Voice of Thanbyuzayat’. Win Htut Oo (28), a freelance…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that India did stay away from the war between Russia and Ukraine, but stressed that it was “never neutral” and was always “in favour of peace”. “The second path that we adopted was to stay away from war. We have stayed away from the war with conviction but that does not mean that we were neutral. We were never neutral. We have been in favour of peace from day 1. I have come to the soil of Ukraine with a message of peace,” he added. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is in Kyiv on Friday to meet…
In a significant move, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has directed all central government-run medical institutions to design the Indian dress code for convocation ceremonies of their respective institutes based on local traditions of the state and said the current tradition of black robe and cape is a colonial legacy which needs to be changed. The official notice reads, ‘It is observed that currently as a matter of practice, black robe and cap is being used during convocation by various Institutes of the Ministry. This attire originated in the Middle Ages in Europe and was introduced by…
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has barred industrialist Anil Ambani and 24 other entities, including former key officials of Reliance Home Finance Ltd (RHFL), from the securities market for five years for diversion of funds from the company. Further, SEBI has imposed a penalty of Rs 25 crore on Ambani and restrained him from being associated with the securities market including as a director or Key Managerial Personnel (KMP) in any listed company, or any intermediary registered with the market regulator, for a period of five years. The total penalty on Ambani and other 24 entities works…