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Bareilly (UP), Jul 17 (PTI) A teacher from Bahedi district, who went viral recently after reciting a poem mentioning Kanwar Yatra, approached the police on Thursday stating a threat to his life from anti-social elements. A case has been registered at Bahedi police station based on a complaint from Dr Rajneesh Kumar Gangwar, a teacher at MGM Inter College in the district. According to Circle Officer Arun Kumar Singh, Gangwar's complaint says that ever since his recitation of the poem 'Tum Kanwa ...Read More >
Mumbai: Bombay high court refused to direct the Central Adoption Resource Agency (Cara) to approve the adoption of an American child by an Indian Muslim couple. It observed that neither the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act nor the Adoption Regulations allow the adoption of a child of foreign citizenship unless the child is 'in need of care and protection' or 'in conflict with law.'"There is no fundamental right of the petitioners to adopt an American child, which child does ...Read More >
A Coruna [Spain], July 17 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Thursday expressed happiness over the State's performance in the Swachh Survekshan Awards 2024-25, stating that Madhya Pradesh has once again topped the rankings in various sectors, with Indore and Bhopal earning top honours. 'The Swachh Survekshan Awards 2024-25 have been announced and I am extremely happy that as always, Madhya Pradesh has topped the list in various sectors. There is a new entry in the 'Super League ...Read More >
India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI), once a bold experiment in digital public infrastructure (DPI), is now emerging as a global payments powerhouse. In a landmark move, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched UPI in Trinidad and Tobago, signaling India's growing ambition to expand its fintech footprint across the Global South and beyond. This marks a defining moment in UPI's international journey, as it accelerates toward becoming a competitor to traditional global payment giants. With trans ...Read More >
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], July 16 (ANI): Uttarakhand Education Minister Dhan Singh Rawat on Wednesday said that the state government has asked the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to include the Bhagavad Gita and the Ramayana in the syllabus of 17,000 government schools. "In a meeting of the Education department with the Chief Minister, we have tasked NCERT to include Bhagavad Gita and Ramayana in the syllabus to be taught in 17,000 government schools of Uttar ...Read More >
Tiruchirappalli (Tamil Nadu) [India], July 16 (ANI): Tamil Nadu Municipal Administration Minister KN Nehru on Wednesday flagged off buses from the new bus terminus of Kalaignar Dr M. Karunanidhi Integrated Bus Terminal in Trichy. The fully air-conditioned bus terminus became operational in Trichy recently. Also Read | Mumbai Horror: 2 Teenage Male Friends Forced To Indulge in Unnatural Sex Over Money Dispute; Accused Filmed Act and Threatened Victims, Arrested. Tamil Nadu Municipal Administra ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 16 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will lead a protest march in Kolkata on Wednesday over alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking people in BJP-ruled states. The march will begin at College Square around 1 pm and conclude at Dharmatala in the heart of the city. Also Read | Mumbai Horror: 2 Teenage Male Friends Forced To Indulge in Unnatural Sex Over Money Dispute; Accused Filmed Act and Threatened Victims, Arrested. Senior leaders of the party, including TMC natio ...Read More >
Mumbai: A 40-year-old man has been arrested in Mumbai for allegedly strangling his five-year-old stepdaughter and dumping her body in the Arabian Sea. The body was discovered floating near Sassoon Dock in Colaba on Tuesday morning, leading to the swift arrest of the accused.According to the police, the child had been reported missing from the Antop Hill area in Central Mumbai a day earlier. Her mother, Nazia, who works as a housemaid, and Imran Shaikh, the accused, had approached the Antop Hill ...Read More >
Jalandhar, July 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Punjab Police on Wednesday arrested the man allegedly responsible for the hit-and-run incident that led to the death of 114-year-old marathon legend Fauja Singh on the Jalandhar-Pathankot highway. The accused, Amritpal Singh Dhillon, a 26-year-old non-resident Indian (NRI) originally from Kartarpur in Jalandhar, was apprehended two days after the incident. Dhillon, who resides in Canada with his family, had reportedly returned to India just a week ago. ...Read More >
Chandigarh: In a tragic incident 114-year-old world-renowned marathon runner Fauja Singh died after being hit by a speeding vehicle on the Jalandhar-Pathankot highway near his native village in Punjab. The accident occurred on Monday afternoon while Singh was crossing the road close to his home, approximately 400 metres away. Eyewitnesses said the impact was so severe that Singh was thrown nearly 5-7 feet into the air. He was rushed to the hospital with serious head injuries but later succumbe ...Read More >
Jalandhar (Punjab): Punjab Police arrested a 30-year-old Non-Resident Indian (NRI) in connection with the tragic hit-and-run death of legendary marathon runner Fauja Singh. The arrest of Amritpal Singh Dhillon, coupled with the recovery of the Fortuner SUV involved in the incident, came within a remarkable 30 hours of the accident that claimed the life of the 114-year-old athlete. Dhillon, a resident of Dasupur village in Kartarpur of Jalandhar, was taken into custody late Tuesday night and is ...Read More >
New Delhi/Kerala, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) It was a race against time, and after a lengthy period of multipronged negotiations, the execution of Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, which was to happen on Wednesday, has been kept in abeyance. Numerous efforts from several quarters, which included full support of the Indian government, besides agencies based in Saudi Arabia and religious intervention from the Grand Mufti, Kanthapuram A.P. Aboobacker Musliyar, who reportedly reached out to a friend in Yem ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) India's passenger vehicle sales crossed the one million mark in the April-June quarter (Q1) of 2025-26 with exports registering a double-digit growth, according to data released by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) on Tuesday. "Passenger Vehicles, comprising utility vehicles and cars, saw their highest ever exports in Q1 of 2025-26 of 2.04 Lakh units, registering a growth of 13.2 per cent over Q1 of 2024-25," according to the SIAM statemen ...Read More >
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav wrapped up his three-day official visit to the United Arab Emirates today, delivering a compelling investment pitch that's already generating significant interest from global investors. The Chief Minister's packed Dubai schedule included high-level meetings with UAE government officials, business leaders, and Indian diaspora members, all focused on positioning Madhya Pradesh as India's next major investment destination. At the 'Madhya Pradesh Busine ...Read More >
Kolkata: Tech giant RS Software (India) Ltd, that had built the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) platform in 2015, is now working on a global payments integration platform to facilitate international trade flows. The company is also planning to invest over Rs 100 crore over the next five years to bolster the payments network system across the country.Raj Jain, CEO and MD of the company, said: "As UPI gains global recognition, govt has negotiated several bilateral agreements with different countr ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, Jul 14: Resolving friction along their border and the ability to maintain peace are fundamental for mutual trust between India and China, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Monday. The neighbours have made "good progress" over the last nine months for the normalisation of relations, he said, adding that it was key for restrictive trade measures and roadblocks to be avoided. This is Jaishankar's first visit to China after the ties ...Read More >
Jaipur, July 14 (UNI) The Rajasthan Cabinet today decided to strengthen infrastructure in the health and medical sectors to make the state a model medical tourism hub. A proposal and project presentation prepared by departments concerned were approved by the state cabinet which met here under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma. Accordingly, super specialty hospitals and ancillary infrastructure and establishments will be built towards providing world-class specialised medical ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 14: The Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that "there is nothing much the government can do" to save Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya from execution in Yemen. Appearing before a Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta, Attorney General of India R. Venkataramani, the highest law officer of the Centre, submitted, "There is nothing much the government can do! Looking at the sensitivity of Yemen, the country is not diplomatically recognised. There is a point till which the Go ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Supreme Court is slated to hear on Monday a plea seeking directions to the Centre to use diplomatic channels to save Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya from execution. Indian national Nimisha Priya, who has been sentenced to death in Yemen for the murder of a Yemeni national, Talal Abdo Mehd and has been in prison for the last three years, is tentatively set to be executed on July 16. As per the causelist published on the website of the apex court, a Bench of Ju ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 13 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said on Sunday that he would pitch his state to foreign investors during his visits to Dubai and Spain. The chief minister is set to leave for Dubai this afternoon. We are all working equally hard in every sector for the betterment of our state... Across the country, we have been conducting a grand endeavour to attract investors, and we are receiving tremendous support for it, Yadav told reporters. This year, for the f ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 13 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said on Sunday that he would pitch his state to foreign investors during his visits to Dubai and Spain. The chief minister is set to leave for Dubai this afternoon. "We are all working equally hard in every sector for the betterment of our state... Across the country, we have been conducting a grand endeavour to attract investors, and we are receiving tremendous support for it," Yadav told reporters. Also Read | Sonia ...Read More >
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], July 13 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav is scheduled to go on an official visit to Dubai in the UAE and Spain from July 13 to July 19. The aim of his visit is to bring global investment to Madhya Pradesh, encourage technology sharing, and create new job opportunities. As per the release, Yadav will leave for Dubai on Sunday afternoon. Soon after reaching, he will meet several well-known people to tell them about the strengths of Madhya Pradesh. ...Read More >
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], July 13 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav is scheduled to go on an official visit to Dubai in the UAE and Spain from July 13 to July 19. The aim of his visit is to bring global investment to Madhya Pradesh, encourage technology sharing, and create new job opportunities. As per the release, Yadav will leave for Dubai on Sunday afternoon. Soon after reaching, he will meet several well-known people to tell them about the strengths of Madhya Pradesh. ...Read More >
New Delhi: Delhi govt has announced a city-wide rollout of underground electric wiring as part of a Rs 100-crore initiative. The move aims to ensure a safer, cleaner and uninterrupted power supply for residents across the capital, chief minister Rekha Gupta said on Saturday while launching the city's first pilot project of underground wiring in Shalimar Bagh.Gupta said the work at her constituency Shalimar Bagh would be completed in approximately three months. At least 5,500 families residing in ...Read More >
Ludhiana: The thunder of hooves, the creak of wood, returns to Punjab. Bullock cart races are set to gallop back into state's sporting culture, with the assembly on Friday passing the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Punjab Amendment) Bill 2025. The move paves the way for legal bullock cart races, reviving a decades-old tradition central to the famed Kila Raipur "Rural Olympics".The legislation has been welcomed by race organisers, farmers, and diaspora supporters, who had long decried the 2014 ...Read More >
MUMBAI : Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Friday posted a video on X purportedly showing the state's social justice minister Sanjay Shirsat of the Shiv Sena sitting in a room along with a partially opened bag containing what look like bundles of currency notes. Shirsat, however, rubbished the claim, saying the bag only contained clothes.The allegation came a day after it emerged that Shirsat had received a notice from the income tax department seeking an explanation for increase in his financia ...Read More >
Chandigarh: The Punjab assembly on Friday unanimously passed a resolution rejecting the proposed deployment of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel at vital Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) installations. The state govt asserted Punjab police's capability to secure these projects, calling the central force's deployment an unnecessary financial burden, adding that providing security at these installations falls in the state's jurisdiction.The House recommended that the Punjab gov ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 12 (ANI): Ahead of the Bihar assembly elections, Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) president Chirag Paswan received a death threat on social media, his party spokesperson Rajesh Bhatt said on Friday. Bhatt also filed a complaint at the Cyber Police Station in Patna in the matter. As per the written complaint, the death threat was issued by an Instagram user under the name 'Tiger Meraj Idisi'. 'The threat was issued due to Paswan's growing popularity. T ...Read More >
Chandigarh: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday doubled down on his criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's foreign trips, alleging that his visits abroad are without need or reason while the country's problems lie unsolved.Unfazed by condemnation from ministry of external affairs that his remarks on the PM were "irresponsible and regrettable", Mann said in the assembly on Friday: "Today, MEA has reacted. Don't we have the right to ask the Prime Minister about foreign policy? When ...Read More >
Jalandhar, Jul 11 (PTI) The Enforcement Directorate on Friday conducted fresh searches in Punjab and Haryana as part of a money laundering investigation into a 'donkey route' case related to illegal Indian immigrants who were deported by the US this year, official sources said. Raids are being undertaken at seven locations at Mansa in Punjab and Kurukshetra and Karnal in Haryana under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they said. The latest raids are based on "credible" inputs gath ...Read More >
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