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Menaka Guruswamy is a senior advocate of the Supreme Court and one of the leading voices in India's LGBTQ rights movement. Senior advocate Menaka Guruswamy on Monday made history by taking oath as a Rajya Sabha MP, becoming India's first openly queer Member of Parliament. Guruswamy was nominated by the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) along with West Bengal Minister Babul Supriyo, former Bengal DGP Rajeev Kumar, and actor Koel Mallick as candidates for the upper house in February. ...Read More >
Lucknow, Apr 3 (PTI) Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday alleged that the BJP was blaming the Iran-Israel conflict for a range of domestic issues and said such claims were an attempt to hide policy failures. Responding to a question on the impact of the West Asia situation on industries in Kanpur during a press conference here, Yadav said that the responsibility for the condition of industries lies with the BJP government. "These people may now even say that the Ganga is not get ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Dec 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, on Friday, called for preserving historic and heritage buildings on the Osmania University campus while building new structures as part of the development plan. He announced that he would visit the Osmania University (OU) on December 10, and the plans for the university's development would be finalised by month end. At a review meeting with top officials, he made it clear that there should be no hesitation in spending ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 8: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto University (Japan), Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne (Australia), and Omar M Yaghi of the University of California, Berkeley (USA) for their groundbreaking work in developing metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), porous materials capable of trapping, storing, and filtering gases and chemicals. The Nobel Committee cited the trio "for the development of metal-o ...Read More >
New Delhi, Sep 26 (PTI) US President Donald Trump's move to impose 100 per cent import tariffs on pharmaceutical drugs from October 1 is unlikely to have an immediate impact on Indian exports, as it will affect only patented and branded products, not generic medicines, pharma industry players said on Friday. Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA), which represents 23 leading Indian pharmaceutical firms, including Dr Reddy's Laboratories, Sun Pharma, Lupin and Zydus Lifesciences, noted that Trump' ...Read More >
New Delhi: Industry leaders welcomed the recently announced GST reforms, which reduce the number of tax slabs, stating that it will make tax compliance easier while also directly benefiting consumers through lower prices. Jharkhand Chamber of Commerce Joint Secretary Navjot Alang Rubal said that the reduction of the number of slabs from four to two under the new GST structure is a highly positive step. According to Rubal, this reform will greatly benefit the middle and lower-income groups as t ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], September 5 (ANI): On the occasion of Teachers Day, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday congratulated two teachers of his state who were honoured by President Droupadi Murmu with the National Teachers Award, 2025. The two teachers, Principal Manjubala of Rajkiya Prathmik Vidyalaya Churani and Training Officer Manish Mamgain of National Skill Training Institute (NSTI), Dehradun, were honoured for their outstanding contributions to education and skill devel ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], September 5 (ANI): On the occasion of Teachers' Day, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday congratulated two teachers of his state who were honoured by President Droupadi Murmu with the National Teachers Award, 2025. The two teachers, Principal Manjubala of Rajkiya Prathmik Vidyalaya Churani and Training Officer Manish Mamgain of National Skill Training Institute (NSTI), Dehradun, were honoured for their outstanding contributions to education and skill deve ...Read More >
Chennai, Aug 29 (PTI) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Friday announced that he would unveil a portrait of rationalist leader Thanthai Periyar (E V Ramasamy) at the University of Oxford on September 4 during his visit to England. He would release two books that chronicled the hundred-year journey and living legacy of the Self-respect movement founded by Ramasamy in 1925. "Periyar goes global! 'Oppression is my enemy,' the rallying cry of Periyar now resonates at #Oxford," Stalin said in ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jun 5 (PTI) Rising temperatures, driven by climate change, is increasing the atmosphere's 'thirst', making droughts around the world 40 per cent more severe over the past 40 years, according to a new study. Researchers, including those at the University of California-Santa Barbara, US, explained that the atmosphere is becoming warmer, thereby increasing its capacity to hold moisture -- atmospheric evaporative demand -- and making droughts more severe, even in places where rainfall ha ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jun 5 (PTI) Rising temperatures, driven by climate change, is increasing the atmosphere's 'thirst', making droughts around the world 40 per cent more severe over the past 40 years, according to a new study. Researchers, including those at the University of California-Santa Barbara, US, explained that the atmosphere is becoming warmer, thereby increasing its capacity to hold moisture -- atmospheric evaporative demand -- and making droughts more severe, even in places where rainfall ha ...Read More >
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