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Srinagar, Sept 30: "Those who speak the language of separatists and terrorists insult the sacrifices of our martyrs and hurt their soul and strictest possible action as per law of the land will be taken against such elements," Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha said today. He said the land of UT of Jammu Kashmir is saturated with blood and sacrifice of J&K Police, Army, CAPF martyrs for the nation's integrity and if anyone disrespects the sovereignty of India and the memories of police martyrs, he ...Read More >
BHUBANESWAR: The 21st Annual Convocation of KIIT DU concluded on Sunday, with the conferment of degrees to as many as 9,464 students, including 7,235 Bachelor's, 2,034 Master's, and 195 Ph.D. degrees. The event was held over three days for the first time in the University's history to accommodate the large number of graduating students and their families. The convocation was graced by distinguished personalities, including Prof. Mohan Munasinghe, Nobel Laureate from Sri Lanka; H.E. Ouided Bouch ...Read More >
India's industrial sector recorded a steady growth of 4.0% year-on-year in August 2025, according to the Quick Estimates of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) released by the ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. This marks an improvement over the 3.5% growth reported in July 2025. The overall IIP for August 2025 stood at 151.7, up from 145.8 in the same month last year.Among the core sectors, mining led the growth with a 6.0% increase, followed by electricity at 4.1% and ma ...Read More >
The government's economic stimulus measures, which are scheduled to be rolled out in the final quarter of this year, are expected to help boost business confidence and increase the demand for loans among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Pichit Mitrawong, president of the Small and Medium Enterprise Development Bank of Thailand (SME D Bank), said confidence among SME entrepreneurs in the fourth quarter is expected to rise, while loan demand is likely to double compared to the third qua ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], September 29 (ANI): India's industrial output, as measured by the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), rose to a seven-month high of four per cent in August 2025, driven largely by strong growth in the mining and electricity sectors, according to a press release by the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI). The mining sector registered a robust growth of 6 per cent in August, rebounding from a negative 7.2 per cent year-on-year growth in July 2025, while electricity ...Read More >
New Delhi, Sep 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) India's index of industrial production (IIP) in August showed strong growth in infrastructure and primary goods, experts said on Monday, highlighting a steady recovery in the mining, electricity, and capital-intensive sectors. According to Hemant Jain, President of PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI), IIP grew at 4 per cent in August -- marking a seven-month high, driven by strong recovery in the mining and electricity sectors. The mining sector gre ...Read More >
New Delhi: Google, the search engine that turned into one of the world's biggest tech giants, is celebrating its 27th birthday today. And to mark the milestone, the company has gone nostalgic; its doodle on the homepage features Google's very first logo from 1998. For anyone logging in today, the doodle is like stepping into a time machine. The chunky, colourful letters don't quite have the polish of the current design, but they carry the weight of history. Back then, Google was just a research ...Read More >
Mr Bhattacharya holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Notre Dame. New Delhi: The South Asian University (SAU) in New Delhi has sacked a professor, two years after suspending him for allegedly backing student protests against stipend cuts. Associate Professor Snehashish Bhattacharya's removal, effective from June 16, 2023, was announced on Thursday, citing "incitement of students against the interest of the university." Mr Bhattacharya, who joined SAU in 2011 and taught the universit ...Read More >
New Delhi. September 14: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the celebrations of the 100th birth Anniversary of Bharat Ratna Dr. Bhupen Hazarika at Guwahati in Assam today. Addressing the gathering, the Prime Minister remarked that today is a remarkable day and this moment is truly precious. He shared that the performances he witnessed, the enthusiasm, and the coordination he observed were deeply moving. He highlighted the rhythm of Bhupen Da's music that resonated throughout the event. Quoti ...Read More >
Guwahati, Sep 13 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asserted that Bharat Ratna awardee Bhupen Hazarika's songs continue to unite India and give energy to its people. Addressing the musical doyen's birth centenary celebrations in Guwahati, Modi said his creations encompass the concept of 'Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat'. "The ideals that he lived by and the experiences Hazarika went through are reflected in his songs and the deep love for Mother India in Bhupen Da's music stemmed from hi ...Read More >
New Delhi: India's retail inflation edged up modestly in August, but economists and industry leaders believe the rise is temporary and unlikely to upset the country's broader price stability, partly due to recent GST reforms. Official data released on Friday showed that retail inflation, measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), climbed to 2.07 percent year-on-year in August 2025, compared with 1.61 percent in July. The increase of 46 basis points, though notable, still kept inflation well wit ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], September 13 (ANI): India's retail inflation edged up modestly in August, but economists and industry leaders believe the rise is temporary and unlikely to upset the country's broader price stability, partly due to recent GST reforms. Official data released on Friday showed that retail inflation, measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), climbed to 2.07% year-on-year in August 2025, compared with 1.61% in July. The increase of 46 basis points, though notable, still kept in ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], September 13 (ANI): India's real estate sector has attracted nearly USD 80 billion in institutional investments over the past 15 years since 2010, highlighting the sector's evolution into a preferred asset class for both global and domestic investors, according to a joint report by Colliers-CREDAI. Foreign capital continues to dominate, contributing 57 per cent of total inflows, during these years, the report said. Also Read | 'Nishaanchi': Salman Khan Sends His 'Best Wishes ...Read More >
Jagdeep S Chhokar, co-founder of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and a prominent advocate for clean elections, passed away in Delhi at the age of 80. He spearheaded landmark judicial interventions, enhancing transparency and accountability in Indian politics, including mandatory disclosure of candidate information and the striking down of the Electoral Bonds scheme. Jagdeep S Chhokar, co-founder of poll rights body Association for Democratic Reforms and a long-standing advocate for ...Read More >
A 27-year-old Romanian student pursuing a PhD in Indian Philosophy at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) was found dead under suspicious circumstances at her accommodation in Varanasi late Thursday night. Police identified the deceased as Filipa Francisca, who had been living in a rented room under the Chowk police station limits. When Francisca did not respond to knocks on her door late at night, the landlord informed the police. Officials arrived at the spot, opened the door with a duplicate key, ...Read More >
New Delhi: Jagdeep S Chhokar, co-founder of poll rights body Association for Democratic Reforms and a long-standing advocate for clean elections, passed away in Delhi on Friday after suffering a heart attack, ADR sources said. He was 80. A retired professor at the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad, Chhokar, along with his colleagues, founded the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) in 1999. Over the past two decades, the organisation spearheaded several landmark judicial interventio ...Read More >
Mumbai: Ten years after he was acquitted by a trial court in the 7/11 serial train bomb blasts in Mumbai in 2006, Wahid Shaikh, a school teacher, filed a complaint before the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and other bodies, seeking compensation of ₹9 crore for his wrongful incarceration of nine years. Shaikh wrote in his complaint to the NHRC on Friday: "...the nine years I spent in wrongful custody, coupled with brutal custodial torture, have left me and my family devastated in ways n ...Read More >
Mumbai: Ten years after he was acquitted by a trial court in the 7/11 serial train bomb blasts in Mumbai in 2006, Wahid Shaikh, a school teacher, filed a complaint before the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and other bodies, seeking compensation of ₹9 crore for his wrongful incarceration of nine years. Shaikh wrote in his complaint to the NHRC on Friday: "...the nine years I spent in wrongful custody, coupled with brutal custodial torture, have left me and my family devastated in ways no ...Read More >
New Delhi: Delhi University is set to open a physical mop-up round of admissions to fill over 7,000 vacant undergraduate seats. Admissions in this round will be made on the basis of Class XII marks. The decision was taken at the Executive Council (EC) meeting on Friday. Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh suggested that admissions be provided directly by colleges through spot admissions, a proposal that was approved by the EC. Singh said the mop-up round will ensure colleges do not carry forward large ...Read More >
New Delhi, Sep 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) The launch of the Gyan Bharatam Portal by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been hailed as a landmark achievement in preserving and promoting India's vast manuscript heritage. The portal aims to digitally catalogue, preserve, and share India's priceless ancient knowledge contained in millions of manuscripts, many of which have been scattered across the world. Experts, students, and scholars from across India and neighbouring countries have expressed their excit ...Read More >
New Delhi: Delhi University is set to open a physical mop-up round of admissions to fill over 7,000 vacant undergraduate seats. Admissions in this round will be made on the basis of Class XII marks. The decision was taken at the Executive Council (EC) meeting on Friday. Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh suggested that admissions be provided directly by colleges through spot admissions, a proposal that was approved by the EC. Singh said the mop-up round will ensure colleges do not carry forward large ...Read More >
New Delhi: Reforms in Ph.D. programmes, acceleration of research commercialisation, integration of AI into curricula, stronger alumni engagement, promotion of student mental wellbeing, and expansion of global collaborations through the IIT R&D Fair, international students, and foreign faculty support were among the key issues discussed at the IIT Council meeting, held at IIT Delhi on Monday after a gap of more than two years. The 56th Meeting of the Council of the Indian Institutes of Technolog ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Student leader and PhD scholar at Maulana Azad National Urdu University (Manuu), Hyderabad, Talha Mannan has been booked by Aligarh police for raising pro-Palestine slogans during a protest at Aligarh Muslim University on August 4. The FIR, filed on the complaint of Hindu Raksha Dal's Sanjay Arya, accuses Mannan of holding a demonstration near Bab-e-Syed Gate without permission and raising "provocative slogans" with 8-10 others. It states that videos of the protest circulated on socia ...Read More >
The Delhi High Court is reviewing a plea against a notification that raises the limit of non-medical faculty for teaching MBBS students. The petition argues that this change dilutes medical education standards. It seeks to overturn certain provisions of the National Medical Commission's 2025 regulations. The Delhi High Court has issued a notice to the Central government regarding a plea challenging an amendment that raises the permissible limit of non-medical faculty for teaching Anatomy, Physi ...Read More >
New Delhi, Aug 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Prominent US economist Jeffrey Sachs on Thursday strongly criticised President Donald Trump's decision to impose steep punitive tariffs on India, calling it one of the worst blunders in American foreign policy. In an interview on the Breaking Points show with Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti, Sachs said Trump's tariffs were "not a strategy, but sabotage." He warned that the move, instead of giving the US leverage, ended up pushing India closer to other emerging ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar, Aug 14 (UNI) In an attempt to promote uniformity, safety, and professionalism among students, the Government-run Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT) in Burla has introduced a mandatory uniform dress code for its first-year undergraduate students starting from the 2025-2026 academic session while prohibiting the wearing of 'dupattas' of scarfs by girl students. The notification stated that prohibition of dupatta has been made from safety concerns without elaborating f ...Read More >
Tirunelveli: A woman PhD scholar of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University (MSU) caused a stir at its 32nd convocation in Tirunelveli on Wednesday when she refused to receive her doctorate from governor R N Ravi saying he is 'someone who is against the welfare of Tamil Nadu'.The scholar, Jean Joseph, wife of a DMK functionary in Nagercoil, completed her research in microfinance. At the convocation, graduating students came to the stage with their certificates and posed with the governor. However, Jea ...Read More >
New Delhi, Aug 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Easing inflation and favourable monsoon boosted rural demand in India in the April-June period this year, outpacing urban consumption once again, according to a new report. According to the report by global research firm NielsenIQ, rural markets and small manufacturers propelled the packaged consumer goods sector in Q2 2025. Rural markets grew twice as fast as cities, as urban areas showed signs of recovery, particularly in smaller towns. According to the re ...Read More >
TIRUNELVELI: A research scholar of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University (MSU) chose to receive her doctorate from Vice Chancellor M Chandrasekar, instead of Governor and Chancellor R N Ravi during the convocation ceremony on Wednesday. The scholar, Jean Joseph V, who is the wife of DMK's Nagercoil corporation deputy secretary M Rajan, said she did not want to receive the doctorate from the governor because "he had not done anything for Tamil and Tamil Nadu". The incident took place at the 32nd co ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], August 14 (ANI): As India observes the Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal and External Affairs Minister on Thursday paid tribute to the people who sacrificed their lives during the Partition of India. Sharing an X post, Goyal said that on August 14, 1947, during the Partition of India, people endured the pain of violence, displacement and loss of loved ones. Also Read | Independence Day 2025: President Droupadi Murmu To Ad ...Read More >
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