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‘Minority’ Tag For Hindus Likely To Be Reconsidered: Central To Supreme Court

Arpita SarkarMay 10, 20220

The Centre will reconsider granting 'minority' status to Hindus in some states. This will be discussed with the states where the population of the Hindu community is comparatively less. The Modi government said in an affidavit in the Supreme Court on Monday. The Center told the Supreme Court that it was filing a new affidavit on the matter to avoid unintentional complications in the country in the future. Earlier, on March 27, the Center had opposed a group of writ petitions. The affidavit states that Christians, Sikhs, Muslims, Buddhists, Persians and Jains - these six communities are informed as minorities at the national level. However, where the Hindu community is sparsely populated, the decision on granting minority status to the Hindus may be taken by the concerned State or...

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UIDAI Cannot Share Aadhaar Data In Police Investigation; Check Out Reasons!

Snehashish RoyMay 10, 20220

A petition has been opposed by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) that seeks the Delhi High Court's direction to allow investigators to match fingerprints and pictures of the suspect with the Aadhar database to identify the accused in a murder case. The petition was filed by the Delhi Police. The provider of unique Aadhaar numbers, UIDAI, has prohibitions under the rule of law that it cannot share any core biometric information with police. The plea was opposed by the statutory authority and said the data is not "technologically feasible" to share with the investigating authority. The investigating case at hand is regarding a murder case where Hemant Kumar Kaushik, a jeweller, was killed by three alleged robbers in northwest Delhi's Adarsh Nagar. Two robbers loo...

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Delimitation Commission Issues Its Findings On Constituencies Of J&K

Sayani ChakrabortyMay 9, 20220

The Centre established a delimitation panel on Thursday, and the commission has given its final report for the delimitation of Parliamentary Constituencies and the delimitation of the Assembly for Jammu and Kashmir, which has been the most contentious state since 2019. Because of the increased number of Assembly seats as a result of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, this delimitation commission was essential. As a result, all political parties, with the exception of the BJP, were hostile to the report. Previously, the state of Jammu and Kashmir had around 111 Assembly seats, with 46 seats in Kashmir, 37 seats in Jammu, 4 seats in Ladakh, and an extra 24 seats reserved for Kashmir held by Pakistan, according to the 2011 census. The Delimitation Commission, on the oth...

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Petition Filed In Allahabad High Court To Open 22 Closed Rooms In Taj Mahal

Arpita SarkarMay 9, 20220

The BJP approached the court seeking the reopening of '22 houses' locked in the Taj Mahal. At the same time, they have requested to form a fact-finding team to check whether there was any temple in this monument. The media in-charge of the BJP's Ayodhya branch, Rajneesh Singh filed the petition in the registry of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Saturday. "I have applied to the court to open 22 closed rooms in the Taj Mahal," Rajneesh told PTI on Sunday. Whatever the truth, it should be made public." Incidentally, extremist Hindu groups claim that the Taj Mahal is actually a Shiva temple called 'Tejo Mahalaya'. The petition said that a fact-finding team should submit a report to know the history of the monument under the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). On...

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Government Is Determined To Provide Every Facility To Promote Daughters: Anurag Thakur

Aditi priya singhMay 9, 20220

Association Information and Broadcasting and Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Anurag Singh Thakur said that the government is attempting to encourage daughters in each field. In the field of sports additionally, the government is determined to give each and every support to daughters. This statement was made by Anurag Singh Thakur today in Majra of Nahan to gather supporters of the Sirmaur area. He communicated this while establishing the foundation stone of Hockey Astroturf to be developed at an expense of 50 crores. better sports facilities will be made accessible He expressed that there is a need to also reinforce the game's foundation in Himachal. Toward this path, better sports facilities will be made accessible to the players here. Anurag Thakur said that a new sports host...

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Nearly 30% Of Indian Women Are Victims Of Harassment: Central Government

Arpita SarkarMay 9, 20220

About one-third of the country's women are victims of physical or sexual abuse. This was stated in the report of the National Family Health Survey-5. However, the amount of domestic violence against women in the country has decreased slightly. As a percentage, it has come down from 31.2% to 29.3%. According to the report, 30% of women between the ages of 18 and 49 have been victims of physical violence since the age of 15. The report claims that 6% of women have been sexually abused at some point. Health Minister Mansukh Mandabia released the report last Thursday. The report says, "Only 14% of women who have been physically or sexually abused speak out. 32% of married women between the ages of 18 and 49 have been physically, sexually, or emotionally abused by their partners. Phys...

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Rahul Gandhi Accuses PM Of “All Rank, No Pension”

Sayani ChakrabortyMay 9, 20220

A tweet from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, in which he expresses his support for veterans, has been trending throughout India for the last few days. On Wednesday, he resorted to Twitter to accuse Prime Minister Narendra Modi of "insulting the nation" by failing to pay pensions to a large number of military personnel. According to this source, the veterans, who included numerous three-star commanders, did not get their pensions in April as scheduled. As stated in the tweet, Rahul Gandhi claims that the Modi administration initially conned people with the OROP (One Rank, One Pension) programme and is now implementing the ARNO (All Rank, No Pension) strategy. As a result, he asserts that the Modi administration is disrespecting the country by insulting the troops, and that the gover...

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Contribution To Post-Disaster Sri Lanka: DMK’s House Of Representatives To Give One-Month Pay

Sayani ChakrabortyMay 9, 20220

Sri Lanka is going through a difficult period as a result of its socio-economic crises. As a result, in order to alleviate their predicament, DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) members stated that they would pay one month's salary to the Sri Lankan chief minister's fund. As of Thursday, DMK President M K Stalin said that members of the ruling party's House of Representatives will be giving their one-month pay to help the Sri Lankan people in their time of need. According to the report, all of the DMK's members of Parliament, including those in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, would contribute to this beneficial measure. This call for support comes from the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and President of the DMK, despite the fact that the party has already been informed that it would...

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Narendra Modi Government Is Silent On Bringing Back Vijay Mallya And Nirav Modi; Opposition Takes a Dig!

Arpita SarkarMay 8, 20220

Towards the end of the UPA era, the BJP called Manmohan Singh a "weak prime minister". It was said that if Narendra Modi comes to power, the center will continue with the 'strong' policy. According to political sources, it is easy to talk of 'fifty-six inches' in domestic propaganda. But sitting in government and facing economic and geopolitical challenges is another matter. That fact seems to have come to the fore in bilateral meetings of Indian leaders with heads of state and ministers from Britain, Denmark and Italy in the last two weeks. No effective decision or announcement was made on the return of Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, Kim Davy, who was involved in the Purulia shootings, and the Marines who shot dead two Kerala fishermen in Indian waters, but no meeting was held after thos...

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Amit Shah In West Bengal: Introduces Water Ambulance To Deliver Life-Saving Drugs

Sayani ChakrabortyMay 7, 20220

Amit Shah, the Union Home Minister, has begun a two-day tour to West Bengal, his first visit to the state since the assembly elections in 2021. When Amit Shah arrived at the Kolkata International Airport on Thursday morning, he was received by Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nitish Pramanik and senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari. Over the course of his two-day tour, the Union Home Minister will go to the front area along the Indo-Bangladesh border, where he will have an organisational meeting with members of the state unit that has been demoralised, as well as participate in cultural events and public demonstrations. While in India, Shah will meet with the Director-General of the Border Security Force, Pankaj Kumar Singh, and other senior personnel. Amit takes a huge lea...

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Announcing Yogi 2.0’s Upcoming Health Facilities: Likely To Be ‘Advantageous’ Than Before

Sayani ChakrabortyMay 7, 20220

Following the Yogi government's second victory in the Assembly election, the Yogi 2.0 plans are even more advantageous than they were before. The state of the health sector in the aftermath of the pandemic is the top focus of the government of Uttar Pradesh. The government intends to give beneficial support to the health sector in the state of Uttar Pradesh by expanding the number of hospitals, workers, and facilities available. Under the Yogi 2.0 administration, the government plans to provide a much-needed boost to the healthcare system by constructing seven 50-bed hospitals in the districts of Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur, and Lucknow. In a recent presentation, a spokeswoman for the state government emphasised that the most important aim would be to equalise the ratio of medical profe...

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Read How Venezuela And Sri Lanka Ruined Themselves; What India Should Learn From This?

Gunjan ChaudharyMay 7, 20220

News of the economic crisis in Sri Lanka has sparked a new debate against freebies in the country. The Sri Lankan government had taken steps such as cutting taxes for all and distributing various free goods and services. As a result, the heavy burden on its economy led to the downfall of the economy. The already heavily indebted country was left with no option but to default. In the context of this development, now a debate has started on the issue of free goods and services being provided by Indian states. Freebies are becoming an integral part of Indian politics. Whether it is in the form of a promise to woo voters in the elections or in the form of free facilities to remain in power. This is the reason that at the time of elections, such expectations are being expressed by the peo...

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