- Monday, May 20, 2024
STANISLAUS Lourduswamy, better known as Stan Swamy, an octogenarian priest-activist who was arrested under the anti-terror law in the Elgar Parishad case in 2020, passed away in judicial custody on Monday (5) in the middle of his battle for bail on health grounds. Swamy was being treated at the Holy…
UTTAR Pradesh chief of the Indian National Congress Ajay Kumar Lallu on Sunday (4) said his party has the capacity to fight the assembly elections next year without aligning with either the Samajwadi Party (SP) or the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) – two big players in the politics of India’s…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on June 27 inaugurated a Zen Garden and Kaizen Academy at the Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) in Ahmedabad in the western Indian state of Gujarat via a video conference. He later shared images of the garden on his Twitter handle. Zen gardens are often called…
THE mixed doubles pair of Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna on Saturday progressed to the third round of Wimbledon, with a win over Britain duo of Aidan McHugh and Emily Webley-Smith 6-3, 6-1. Mirza and Bopanna were dominant from the start as the duo sealed the match in straight sets.…
INDIAN army chief General M M Naravane was set to embark on a tour of the UK and Italy for four days starting Monday (5) and the highlight of the visit will be him inaugurating the Indian Army Memorial in the Italian town of Cassino. “The COAS (chief of army…
A SIKH pensioner who was honoured by the Queen for motivating people to stay fit during the pandemic lockdown is seen chatting to the Duchess of Cambridge in the royal box at centre court in Wimbledon on Friday (2). Rajinder Singh or the 'Skipping Sikh', as he is popularly known,…
INDIA'S information technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday (3) praised social media platforms like Google, Facebook and Instagram for publishing their maiden compliance report on voluntary removal of offensive posts under the new information technology rules. He called it to be a big step towards transparency. Under the new…
PUSHKAR Singh Dhami, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member of the Uttarakhand legislative assembly, was on Saturday (3) picked as the next chief minister of the state. He was elected as the leader of the BJP legislature party, which paved the way for him to become the 10th chief minister…
INDIA'S legal sector has been hit by the Covid-19 pandemic like every other field and most courts in the country have been functioning virtually since March 2020 when a long lockdown was imposed by its government throughout the nation to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. But the virtual…
Mumbai Samachar, Asia’s oldest newspaper still in print, has registered a mark of durability by entering its 200th year on Thursday (1) and its editor is confident that the journey will continue for another 500 years. However, a tragedy awaited the newspaper at its moment of glory as Muncherji Cama,…
