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New Delhi: After widespread protests across the country following a top court verdict on relocation of stray dogs in Delhi-NCR, a new three-judge bench of the Supreme Court will hear the suo motu case on Thursday. A bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and N V Anjaria will hear the matter. The directions to permanently relocate all strays from streets to shelters "at the earliest" were passed by a bench comprising Justice J B Pardiwala and Justice R Mahadevan on August 11. ...Read More >
Guwahati: A high-level delegation of Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) met leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi on Tuesday, urging him to raise the twin issues of the Assam Accord implementation and constitutional safeguards for the Assamese people in Parliament.The meeting is significant given the tense atmosphere in the state due to the eviction drives initiated by the state govt and ultimatums issued by various vigilante groups to 'migrant Muslims' of Bangladesh origin to leave upper Assa ...Read More >
Kolkata, Aug 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Members of the civil society and a section of intellectuals from West Bengal have expressed solidarity with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress' sustained protests on the attack of the "Bengali" language and alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking migrant workers in other states. The outcry intensified after a letter from a Delhi Police inspector at the Lodhi Colony police station -- seeking a translator for the "Bangladeshi language" ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Irinjalakuda Diocese in Kerala on Sunday issued a sharp rebuke to Thalassery Archbishop Joseph Pamplany over his remarks praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for their purported role in securing the release of two nuns arrested in Chhattisgarh. Bishop Mar Pauly Kannookadan, head of the Irinjalakuda Diocese, made it clear that only authorised Church leadership is empowered to express the official position of the Ch ...Read More >
SSC Exam Protest: Students accused the staff for misconduct and inappropriate behaviour SSC Exam Protest 2025: Huge protests continued for the second consecutive day in many cities across the country, including Delhi, over alleged mismanagement in the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) Selection Post Phase 13 recruitment exam. Several students and teachers gathered outside the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on Friday seeking reform and accountability in the process. A day ago, studen ...Read More >
Bengaluru: The Karnataka Commercial Tax Department has once again issued a clarification regarding the recent tax notices sent to bakeries, condiments, and tea stalls in Bengaluru. Following earlier backlash, the department had stated that traders with annual turnover below ₹1.5 crore can opt for the Composition Tax Scheme and pay only 1% tax, offering significant relief. Now, in a press release, the department reiterated that traders who have received notices should visit their respective tax ...Read More >
T'puram: The headmistress of Thevalakkara Boys High School, where a 13-year-old boy was electrocuted to death, was suspended from service on Friday. General education department issued a directive to the school management to suspend headmistress Suja S in connection with the electrocution death of Class VIII student Mithun in the school on Thursday. School manager R Thulasidharan Pillai issued the suspension order. Kollam district assistant education officer, who visited the school, reported ser ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The tragic death of a 13-year-old student due to electrocution at Thevalakkara Boys High School in Kollam has triggered widespread protests across Kerala on Friday (July 18). Various opposition student organisations staged marches in front of the Secretariat, at Thevalakkara High School, and outside the office of the Electricity Minister, demanding accountability for the incident. Midhun, 13, a Class VIII student, died on Thursday after coming into contact with a live wire on the sc ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 18: Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) is exploring the possibility of hosting India for a white-ball series in early August, taking advantage of a rare opening in both nations' schedules. Final discussions are expected to take place this week on the sidelines of the ICC meetings in Singapore. This follows after the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) mutually agreed to defer the white-ball series, three ODIs and three Twenty20 Internationals, ...Read More >
BALASORE: In a heart-wrenching incident, a man was forced to carry his 17-year-old daughter's body on a trolley rickshaw for around 7 km to a community health centre in Balasore's Baliapal for postmortem after reportedly failing to afford an ambulance. Asha Bindhani, a minor girl suffering from mental illness, reportedly died by suicide on Thursday afternoon in Deula village under Baliapal police limits. After spotting her, locals informed her father Madhu Bindhani and the police. Madhu, a dai ...Read More >
Kollam: The funeral of 13-year-old Mithun, who died after being electrocuted at his school in Thevalakkara, will be held at noon on Saturday. His mother, Suja, is flying in from Turkey and is expected to reach Kochi by 8.50 am on an IndiGo flight. A public viewing has been arranged at Thevalakkara Boys' High School from 10 am. Amid mounting public outrage over the incident, the school's headmistress, Suja S, has been suspended. The action was taken by the school management after General Educati ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: Following the Balasore girl's self-immolation, state govt on Friday asked higher educational institutes to ensure prominent display of the women helpline number (181) and conduct mandatory staff sensitisation workshops on sexual harassment prevention.The directive comes as part of the state's renewed efforts to strengthen women's safety in educational institutes. The move aligns with the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition, and Redressal) Act, 2013 or PO ...Read More >
Mumbai, July 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Dairy company Heritage Foods Limited on Thursday reported a sharp decline in net profit for the first quarter of FY26, as the company posted a net profit of Rs 40.5 crore for the April-June quarter, down 30.7 per cent from Rs 58.4 crore reported in the same period previous year (Q1 FY25). The fall in profit came despite a 10.1 per cent year-on-year (YoY) growth in revenue, which rose to Rs 1,136.7 crore from Rs 1,032.6 crore in a year-ago period, according to it ...Read More >
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 17 (ANI): Amid the ongoing row over the imposition of Hindi, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray raised strong objections to the Maharashtra government proposed three-language policy on Thursday, questioning its rationale and expressing concern over the plan to implement it from the primary school level. We are opposing the imposition of a three-language policy from the first class. Today, if you visit schools, it (three-language) is (implemented) from th ...Read More >
New Delhi: A horrific incident has come to light from a college in Balasore, Odisha, where a student's life took a tragic turn after allegedly being harassed by her Head of Department. The student, who was repeatedly asked for sexual favors and threatened with dire consequences if she didn't comply, attempted to take her own life by setting herself ablaze on campus. The victim has suffered 95% burn injuries and is currently fighting for her life. In an attempt to save her, a fellow student also ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the Bihar electoral rolls, aimed at removing fake voters, appears to be placing the BJP, which holds more sway than its NDA allies in the state, on the back foot. The party's internal pre-poll survey teams are reportedly encountering public resentment due to concerns that their names may be removed from the rolls under SIR. "SIR has started putting us on the wrong wicket. Whenever we call the voters over their phones to know what they expect fr ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 9 (PTI) Delhi Police on Wednesday argued in the Delhi High Court that the intention behind February 2020 riots in the capital was to globally defame the nation by way of a well-planned and orchestrated criminal conspiracy by the accused persons including Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid. Delhi Police was opposing the bail pleas of the accused persons when it argued before a bench of Justices Navin Chawla and Shalinder Kaur that it was not a spontaneous riot but a well-organised act ...Read More >
Ranchi: Ahead of Bihar Assembly polls, the controversy over use of a morphed image of Rahul Gandhi inside a sanitary pad in Bihar has triggered widespread protests, now spreading to Jharkhand. On Tuesday, the Jharkhand Pradesh Youth Congress Legal Cell lodged a complaint at Ranchi's Cyber Police Station demanding action against "those outraging modesty of women and attempting to incite hostility towards Rahul Gandhi". Youth Congress member Shilpi Kumari stated in the complaint that All India Ma ...Read More >
T'puram/Kottayam The Congress-led opposition intensified the protests against health minister Veena George following the death of a woman in the building collapse at Kottayam Medical College Hospital. Youth Congress, KSU, Mahila Congress and Youth League organized protests across the state, including Palakkad, Kochi, Kollam, Kannur and Mananthavady, seeking the resignation of the health minister. In the state capital, Youth Congress organized a protest march to the official residence of the heal ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 5 (PTI) Various wings of parties in the Congress-led UDF and the BJP staged widespread protests in Kerala on Saturday seeking the resignation of state Health Minister Veena George over the death of a woman when a portion of the Kottayam Medical College building collapsed two days ago. Amidst the protests, state Cooperation Minister V N Vasavan came to the defence of his cabinet colleague by asking why she should resign if a portion of the building collapsed. "When 11 pe ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Mumbai investor Sushil Kedia's office in Worli was vandalised on Saturday morning by unidentified individuals allegedly linked to the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), days after he publicly challenged party chief Raj Thackeray and declared he would not learn Marathi. The attackers raised slogans in support of Thackeray and hurled stones at the office. Police have detained five MNS supporters in connection with the incident and said security had already been deployed at the site follo ...Read More >
New Delhi: A shocking scandal has rocked West Bengal, with a woman accusing Padma Shri awardee monk Kartik Maharaj of raping her multiple times in 2013. Maharaj, a prominent figure in the Bharat Sevashram Sangha, allegedly promised the woman a teaching job at a school in Murshidabad, where he purportedly assaulted her repeatedly over six months. According to media reports, Maharaj allegedly lured the woman to his ashram in Murshidabad, West Bengal, and repeatedly assaulted her there, threatenin ...Read More >
Etawah, Jun 27 (PTI) Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday transferred the probe into two cases related to the alleged caste-based assault and tonsuring of a non-Brahmin preacher and his aide from Etawah to Jhansi, citing "sensitivity" of the matter. The development comes amid an uneasy calm in Dandarpur village in the Bakewar area of Etawah, a day after a violent faceoff between a group of protestors -- who demanded that the case against the katha vachak (preacher) and his aide be taken back - and th ...Read More >
Kolkata: A law college student was allegedly gang-raped on the evening of June 25 inside the campus of South Calcutta Law College in Kolkata. According to reports, the gruesome crime has surfaced just 10 months after the horrific RG Kar rape and murder case, in which a medical student was raped and killed inside a medical college. That incident triggered widespread protests across the state against the Mamata Banerjee-led government, eventually leading to the case being handed over to the Centra ...Read More >
Kolkata: A 24-year-old woman was gang-raped inside the South Calcutta Law College campus in Kolkata on Wednesday, leading to the arrest of three men, including a current student, a staffer, and a former student linked to the Trinamool Congress. The incident, which took place around noon when the victim visited the college to fill out examination-related forms, has triggered sharp reactions and comes over six months after a similar crime at a medical college led to widespread protests. ...Read More >
IMPHAL, 8 Jun: Protests over the arrests of Meitei outfit leaders continued in Manipur on Sunday even as the administration imposed prohibitory orders and suspended internet services in five Imphal valley districts, officials said. Protesters burnt tyres on roads at Uripok and Koirengei in Imphal West district and Khurai in Imphal East, defying the prohibitory orders, they said. In Koirengei, demonstrators dug up the road and made heaps of soil on the thoroughfares to prevent the movement of s ...Read More >
Ahmedabad, June 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) With Ankur Bhattacharjee, Quadri Aruna, and Adriana Diaz all winning their singles rubbers, Kolkata ThunderBlades beat reigning champions Dempo Goa Challengers 9-6 in the Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) Season 6 on Sunday. Kolkata's victory saw them move into the playoff spots, occupying fourth with 29 points. Goa, with six more game wins on the board, moved level on points with leaders Jaipur Patriots and U Mumba TT. The tie opened with a gripping clash between ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], June 8 (ANI): The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has handed over the investigation into the murder of former Bajrang Dal activist Suhas Shetty to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), marking a significant move amid rising concerns over possible larger conspiracies behind the incident. Shetty, a prominent right-wing youth leader associated with the Bajrang Dal in Karnataka's coastal belt, was brutally murdered last month in Sullia town of Dakshina Kannada district. The act ...Read More >
Bengaluru: A letter written by the DCP of the Vidhana Soudha security division to the state government has revealed serious concerns over organising a felicitation ceremony for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) players at the iconic steps of the Karnataka state legislature. The DCP warned that the rushed planning of the event could jeopardise security arrangements due to the expected massive turnout of fans. Following a request from the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) to host a felic ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], June 8 (ANI): The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has handed over the investigation into the murder of former Bajrang Dal activist Suhas Shetty to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), marking a significant move amid rising concerns over possible larger conspiracies behind the incident. Shetty, a prominent right-wing youth leader associated with the Bajrang Dal in Karnataka's coastal belt, was brutally murdered last month in Sullia town of Dakshina Kannada district. The act ...Read More >
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