Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro takes his legal woes to the street on February 25, calling for a mass protest from supporters amid accusations he plotted a coup to stay in power.
Legendary playback singer
#SPBalasubrahmanyam
, known popularly as
#SPB
, passed away at a private hospital at 1:04 p.m. in Chennai on Friday, at the age of 74
#RIPSPB
Watch | On Saturday, the Andhra Pradesh Forest Department authorities cut the bark of an Indian laurel tree in Papikonda National Park to find that the tree stores water in the summer.
This knowledge was shared with the Forest department by the Konda Reddi tribe, a Particularly…
A Railway Protection Force constable jumped out of a moving MRTS train at Park station in Chennai, got into the adjacent compartment of the train and rescued a woman from the clutches of a 26-year-old man who was attempting to rape her.
The Prime Minister’s Office has denied a Right to Information request related to the PM-CARES Fund on the grounds that providing it would “disproportionately divert the resources of the office.”
Just In | Congress drops Sanjay Jha as party spokesperson. Mr Jha had recently written an opinion piece where he had questioned the party leadership and had said Congress is heading towards political obsolescence.
In 2023, India recorded 668 documented hate speech events that targeted Muslims, according to a report released by India Hate Lab, a Washington DC-based group that documents hate speech against India’s religious minorities.
JUST IN | Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union has called for an all night protest outside police headquarters condemning violence
#JamiaProtest
#JNU
#UN
|
#Journalists
should not be jailed for what they write, tweet and say, a spokesperson for UN chief Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday in response to the arrest of Alt News co-founder Mohammed
#Zubair
in
#India
.
#RelianceIndustriesLimited
announced that it would set up India’s first dedicated COVID-19 hospital, special quarantine facilities, import additional test kits and enhance production capacities to produce 1,00,000 face-masks per day
#CoronavirusOutbreak
#AbhijitBanerjee
, recipient of
#NobelPrize2019
for Economics, founded the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), which has carried out 568 field experiments, or Randomised Control Trials (RCTs), in 10 years in several countries, including India.
JUST IN |
#Manipur
Police commandos lay down arms in protest against attack and abduction of a police officer on Tuesday. Around 200 armed miscreants had stormed the house of a police officer in Imphal East. ASP Moirangthem Amit and his escort were abducted,
@vijaita
reports.
Political economist and husband of Union FM Nirmala Sitharaman, Parakala Prabhakar said if the BJP wins the upcoming Lok Sabha polls and PM Narendra Modi is re-elected again in 2024, then there will never be elections in the country again.
Three days before the Balakot strike, Republic TV Editor Arnab Goswami told former Broadcast Audience Research Council CEO Partho Dasgupta ‘something big will happen’, indicating that he knew about the confidential military action.
The Sadashivanagar police booked senior BJP leader and former Karnataka CM B.S. Yediyurappa under a section of the POCSO Act, acting on a sexual assault complaint made by the mother of a 17-year-old.
It took veterinarians at the
#tamilnadu
veterinary university five and half hours to surgically remove a whopping 52 kg of
#plastic
waste from the stomach of the cow.
Police said the allegations against the vendor, Chand Ali, that he spat on the watermelons turned out to be ‘false and baseless’ after a probe and questioning of the locals
A day after The Hindu reported that ‘Passenger Trains’ were being re-designated 'Express' and charged higher fares, Indian Railways on February 27 restored the Second Class Ordinary Fares on these trains, reports
@vijaythehindu
.
“I am grateful for the trust and confidence shown in me by the largest ever group of broadcasters in India," said
#ArnabGoswami
on being elected as the President of News Broadcasters Federation.
#Infosys
founder N.R. Narayana Murthy on Tuesday said that the death of 66 children in
#Gambia
due to an India-made cough syrup has brought unimaginable shame to the country and also dented the credibility of the country’s pharmaceutical regulatory agency.
Rampukar Pandit, who became a snapshot of India’s
#migrant
tragedy with his photograph sobbing by a road in
#Delhi
, is back in Bihar, broken at not being able to see his son before he died.
“I have never seen a more partial Election Commission, it did everything to help BJP....from allowing use of religion to scheduling poll and bending rules, EC did everything to help the BJP,” says
#PrashantKishor
The United States has widened its investigation of Adani Group to focus on the conduct of its founder, Gautam Adani, and whether the company may have engaged in bribery
“As 75% of soldiers will become “unemployed” after four years and their total numbers will keep rising every year, it will give a rise to more disaffection among the youth,” Mr. Gandhi said.
#AgnipathRecruitmentScheme
Even before orbiting astronauts on India’s first manned mission to the space in December 2021,
#ISRO
will send
#Vyomamitra
, a lady robot, in unmanned
#Gaganyaan
spacecraft.
#Congress
on Friday alleged that over two lakh vacancies were pending in the
#RRB
&
#SSC
. Despite the authorities collecting over ₹1000 crore as exam fees, the fate of 2.5 crore applicants continues to hang in balance
#RRBExamDates
Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale filed a complaint against PM Modi with the ECI for violating the Model Code of Conduct for using an Indian Air Force helicopter to attend an election rally in AC 96-Chilakaluripet in Palnadu, Andhra Pradesh
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's centre-left Labour Party won a landslide victory in New Zealand's general election as voters rewarded her for a decisive response to COVID-19.
#newzealandelection
Chinese troops have further transgressed into Indian territory and occupied positions in Finger 2 and 3 of the north bank of Pangong Tso (lake), former
#BJP
Member of Parliament Thupstan Chhewang, who represented
#Ladakh
, has claimed .
“If something happens during a Flap 3 landing, then the question would be asked to the pilot if he or she cares more about saving fuel or 180 passengers lives,” Captain Gaurav Taneja had said
#AirAsia
The
#BJP
spent at least ₹39,41,78,750 on around 80,667 political advertisements through Google between January 1 and April 11, according to statistics from Google’s Ads Transparency Center.
Profile |
#ShehbazSharif
is known to have facilitated back channel talks with India for his brother, reportedly using his business connections with Indian steel magnate Sajjan Jindal, writes
@suhasinih
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta objects to Delhi CM writing to Industrialist Sajjan Jindal seeking Oxygen & tankers. Mr Mehta said any surplus Oxygen produced by industries in India has to go the central corpus for disbursement to States according to their needs.
-via
@rockysoibam
This is a heritage
#jackfruit
tree in
#Panruti
, Tamil Nadu. The tree which is more than 200 years old, yields 150-200 fruits a year, weighing 3 kg to 12 kg.
📸: S.S. Kumar
“I cannot understand why the
#police
are repeatedly subjecting the children of 9 to 12 age group to mental torture. The
#harassment
will affect them in the long run,” Tauseef Madikeri, CEO of Shaheen Group of Institutions, said.
#sedition
Just in | The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court takes suo motu cognisance of
#Hathras
incident and issues notices to the Uttar Pradesh government. (PTI)
.
#UkraineRussiaCrisis
| A video shared by a parent shows students at the Shehyni border crossing between
#Ukraine
and
#Poland
being attacked by Ukrainian police and soldiers.
Just in:
#AirIndia
Express aircraft from Dubai to Calicut with 191 passengers crashes after overshooting the runway and going into the valley. Fire tenders and ambulances rushed to the spot.
-
@jagritichandra
reports
Courtsey- Airport source
A group of
#UnitedNations
experts on Friday issued a statement in Geneva, urging India to release the “human rights defenders who have been arrested for protesting against changes to the nation’s
#citizenship
laws”.
"Not all battles are fought for victory. Some are fought simply to tell the world that someone was there on the battle field,"
#RavishKumar
said as he received the 2019
#RamonMagsaysayAward
.
If
#Gandhi
were alive today, he would have launched a satyagraha in
#Kashmir
asking the Union government to retract the repealing of
#Article370
, says freedom fighter Freedom fighter H.S. Doreswamy
Just In | Almost seven months after he acquitted all 32 accused in the
#BabriMasjid
demolition case, his last case, S.K. Yadav (retired special judge CBI court) took oath as deputy Lokayukt III in
#UttarPradesh
.
Germany on Friday became the first major global power to remind that Delhi Chief Minister
#ArvindKejriwal
who was arrested by the
#EnforcementDirectorate
on Thursday has the right to a “fair and impartial trial”, reports
@janusmyth
“Female students have locked themselves up inside the girls’ wing in Sabarmati Hostel. These attackers are roaming the corridors armed with rods and sticks…we are under attack,” the JNUSU twitter handle said.
Just in |
#Razorpay
, the payment gateway used by
#AltNews
to receive donations, said only domestic payments were enabled for the fact-checking website and foreign transactions were not allowed without
#FCRA
approval.
Information made available to The Hindu shows that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to buy 36
#Rafale
instead of 126 shot the price of each jet up by 41% |
@nramind
#KanganaRanaut
has responded to
#Twitter
suspending her account in a statement: "Twitter has only proved my point they are Americans and by birth, a white person feels entitled to enslave a brown person, they want to tell you what to think, speak or do."
The Israeli spyware
#Pegasus
and a missile system were the “centerpieces” of a roughly $2 billion deal of sophisticated weapons and intelligence gear between
#India
and
#Israel
in 2017, according to a report in The New York Times.
Review |
#DeepikaPadukone
’s performance and Meghna Gulzar’s direction ensure that
#Chhapaak
is like a splash that leaves you misty with emotions, if not entirely drenched, says
@Namrata_Joshi
.
JUST IN |
#Internationalstudents
from Afghanistan and Uzbekistan staying in Gujarat University Hostel were assaulted for offering Namaz in the hostel campus. A few injured students have been admitted to SVP Hospital in Ahmedabad, Mahesh Langa reports
Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale has filed a complaint against PM Modi with the ECI for violating the Model Code of Conduct for using an Indian Air Force helicopter to attend an election rally in AC 96-Chilakaluripet in Palnadu on Sunday