Former vice president M Venkaiah Naidu, founder of Sulabh International Bindeshwar Pathak and a host of other prominent persons were conferred with Padma Awards by President Droupadi Murmu at a ceremonial function held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here on Monday. Naidu, Pathak, who was given the award posthumously, and renowned Bharatanatyam dancer Padma Subrahmanyam were conferred with the Padma Vibhushan. Actor Mithun Chakraborty, singer Usha Uthup, former Uttar Pradesh governor Ram Naik and industrialist Sitaram Jindal were conferred with the Padma Bhushan. Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and External Affairs Minister S…
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Geneva- based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expressed concern over the imprisonment of Habib-ur-Rahman Taseer, a local Afghan journalist associated with Radio Azadi/Radio Free Europe. According to Afghanistan Journalist Center, Taseer was detained by the Taliban regime of Afghanistan on 6 April and lately he has been sent to jail. Taseer was reportedly detained for preparing local reports for Radio Azadi and his smartphone was seized and checked without his consent. The Ghazni-based journalist was also asked to exit from a joint whatsapp group of journalists. “It’s worrisome that a dedicated scribe like Habib-ur-Rahman…
Trade Union leader and activist Khaing Zar Aung from Myanmar has expressed mixed feelings on receiving 2024 Arthur Svensson’s International Prize for Trade Union Rights. She told the ITUC: “I receive the 2024 Arthur Svensson prize with great honour and sadness, because while I am awarded, the working people of my country suffer. “The award is recognition of the relentless struggles and sacrifices of the Myanmar trade unions and people for justice, democracy and human rights. But, still there are many people who can do must more to help remove the illegitimate military regime in Myanmar. “I urge the EU,…
The Calcutta High Court on Monday cancelled the entire recruitment panel of the 2016 West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC), leading to job losses of 25,753 teaching (for classes 9, 10, 11 and 12) and non-teaching staff (for Group C and D). A division bench of Justices Debangsu Basak and Shabbar Rashidi delivered the verdict after finding that many in the panel were hired as part of the infamous SSC recruitment scam. The verdict came after the court had earlier directed to re-evaluate the OMR sheets from the SLST-2016 recruitment exam in the ongoing proceedings in the cash-for-job multi-tier recruitment…
BJP candidate Mukesh Dalal was on Monday elected unopposed from Surat Lok Sabha constituency in Gujarat after all other nominees withdrew from the fray, a poll official said. The development marks the first victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. “I declare that Mukesh kumar Chandrakant Dalal, sponsored by the BJP, has been duly elected to fill the seat in the House from Surat parliamentary constituency,” district collector cum election officer Saurabh Pardhi told media persons as he handed over the Certificate of Election to Dalal. “Surat has presented the first Lotus to Prime Minister Narendra…
A Delhi court, on Monday, declined a plea by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is a Type 2 diabetes patient, to direct prison authorities to administer insulin and allow him to consult a doctor through video conferencing daily for 15 minutes about his health condition. The court, however, ordered the setting up of a medical panel to decide if the Delhi CM actually needs insulin shots regularly. Special Judge for CBI and ED cases Kaveri Baweja passed the order, directing the AIIMS to constitute a medical board for this. The court was hearing an application moved by the CM…
In a classic bait and switch, recent news reports reveals that several men from India who were lured to Russia with the promise of a well-paid job locked in deadly assignments. Instead of a great new job, what they found on arrival was forced conscription into the Russian armed forces, having to put their lives on the line for a cause and a country that were foreign to them with little recourse to escape. Many in Southeast Asia seek jobs in Europe and the Middle East hoping for a better income than the meager wages on offer at home and to…
While addressing a public meeting in Rajasthan’s Jalore, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a dig at former Congress president Sonia Gandhi for choosing the Rajya Sabha route to reach Parliament. Those who cannot win elections have deserted the field and become Rajya Sabha members from Rajasthan, said Modi. Hitting out at Congress, Modi said the party first sent a leader from South (K.C. Venugopal) to Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan; then Rajasthan helped former prime minister Manmohan Singh. “Manmohan Singh was ill for a long time. But was he ever seen here in Rajasthan? Now Rajasthan has again come to Congress’s help.…
Accusing the BJP-led government, jailed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita Kejriwal on Sunday said that by denying insulin a plot is being hatched to kill him in Tihar jail. While pointing fingers at the BJP, Sunita said the party wants to kill him. She asserted that the opposition INDIA bloc will fight against the “dictatorship” of the BJP and win. “They want to kill my husband Arvind Kejriwal. His food is under camera observation; he is denied insulin. My husband is a sugar patient who has been on insulin for 12 years; he needs 50 units of insulin daily,” Sunita…
Senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha candidate Shashi Tharoor has been booked for allegedly carrying out a false campaign against union minister and rival candidate Rajeev Chandrasekhar. The case was registered by the Cyber Police on April 15 but its details were revealed only on Sunday. According to police, the case against Tharoor was registered based on a complaint lodged by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader JR Padmakumar who accused the Congress leader of carrying out a false campaign against Chandrasekhar during a television programme. The complainant alleged that Tharoor, during the programme, had made defamatory statements against Chandrasekhar with…