New Delhi: The Publishers Guild of India has its first president, general secretary and elected treasuries. Senior journalist Seema Mustafa, founder of the news website The citizen, was elected president and Sanjay Kapoor, editor of the Delhi-based magazine Difficult news magazine was elected general secretary of the guild. Ananth Nath, …
Read More »As DU universities face stiff competition for seats, Kejriwal calls on the Center to change the rules
New Delhi: With over 38,000 students scoring above 95% and nearly 1.6 lakh of students scoring over 90% on the Class 12 exams conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education this year, places are running low at the Universities of the University of Delhi. This, on Friday, prompted Delhi’s …
Read More »India ranks 94 out of 107 countries in the 2020 world hunger index
New Delhi: India is now ranked 94th out of 107 countries in terms of hunger, and remains in the category of ‘severe’ hunger according to the Global Hunger Index 2020. According to the study, 14% of India’s population is undernourished. Last year, the GHI ranking of India was 102 out …
Read More »India ranks 94 out of 107 countries in the 2020 world hunger index
New Delhi: India is now ranked 94th out of 107 countries in terms of hunger, and remains in the category of ‘severe’ hunger according to the Global Hunger Index 2020. According to the study, 14% of India’s population is undernourished. Last year, the GHI ranking of India was 102 out …
Read More »‘The Nagas will never join the Indian Union or accept the Constitution of India’: Head of NSCN (IM)
New Delhi: In an interview that is likely to upset and even upset the government in the Center and starkly revealing the stark differences that still separate the Nagalim National Socialist Council (Isak-Muivah) from the Indian government, the general secretary of the NSCN (IM) has repeatedly said and strongly that …
Read More »The IMF says Bangladesh is ready to overtake India in GDP per capita. This is why
New Delhi: According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), India will fall below Bangladesh in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita this year, due to the national lockdown imposed to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the IMF-World Economic Outlook (WEO), Bangladesh’s GDP per capita …
Read More »Judge discovers the question of jurisdiction after days of hearing
New Delhi: Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Rouse Avenue Court, Delhi, Vishal Pahuja made a shocking announcement on Tuesday before proceedings began in Mobashar Jawed Akbar v Priya Ramani – that your court is not competent to hear the case in view of the order of the Supreme Court in Ashwani …
Read More »Congress faces an uphill task, but BJP’s Scindia and Chouhan need a strong show
Bhopal: Although the by-elections in Madhya Pradesh have not received as much attention as the assembly elections in Bihar, they are equally important. There are 28 constituencies heading for early elections on November 3, the largest in the state, which will decide whether Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who came to power …
Read More »In YS Jagan v Justice Ramana, Modi’s government wins, regardless of the outcome
When The wire I used the word ‘war’ for its headline in the story about Andhra Pradesh Prime Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s unprecedented letter to Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, initially wondering about its suitability. But after talking to my sources, I am now convinced that ‘war’ is …
Read More »Panel of prominent former judges, senior IAS-IPS officials to independently investigate the Delhi riots
New Delhi: The Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG), a collective of former officials who worked with the central government, as well as with different state governments, has formed a committee of six high-level former public officials to create a “contemporary registry of acts of omission and commission ”surrounding the February 2020 …
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