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After Bharatiya Janata Party-led Mahayuti’s landslide victory in Maharashtra Assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday (23 November) addressed the party workers at BJP headquarters in New Delhi. Victory of Development and Good Governance PM Modi said that the BJP-led alliance’s win in Maharashtra is the victory of “development, good governance, and true social […]
The Karnataka High Court has temporarily stayed the Siddaramaiah-led state government’s 30 August 2023, order authorising the Karnataka State Waqf Board (WB) to issue marriage certificates to Muslim applicants. The court, led by Chief Justice N V Anjaria and Justice K V Aravind, questioned the legality of the move and noted that such certificates may […]
Meta, the parent company of WhatsApp, is planning to contest a Rs 213.14-crore fine imposed by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for alleged anti-competitive practices linked to WhatsApp’s 2021 privacy policy update, according to news agency PTI. The penalty comes alongside directives for the company to stop anti-competitive behaviour and implement specific remedies within […]
As Delhi’s air quality plummeted further in the ‘Severe’ category to reach 484 on the air quality index (AQI) on Monday (18 November) morning, the Supreme Court took up the air pollution matter. The bench of Justices AS Oka and AG Masih questioned, “Why was the GRAP mechanism not invoked?” GRAP is a graded response […]
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has reportedly decided to restrict the ICC Champions Trophy trophy tour to Karachi, Lahore, and Rawalpindi. This comes after the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which is the richest cricket body globally, filed an objection with the ICC over the PCB’s move to include Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to declare Shringverpur Dham a pilgrimage site on 12 December ahead of the 2025 Mahakumbh in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh (UP). Shringverpur is a place in Prayagraj, from where Lord Ram crossed the river Ganga. It is a part of the ‘Ram Van Gaman Path’ being built from Ayodhya to […]
The Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya, originally slated for completion in June 2025, is now expected to be fully operational by September 2025, according to Nripendra Mishra, head of the temple’s construction committee. Mishra provided this update after leading a two-day meeting of the committee in Ayodhya on Thursday and Friday. He explained that the […]
The Central government has reportedly sent a notice to Wikipedia with reference to numerous complaints of bias and inaccuracies in information provided by it, and asked why it should not be treated as a publisher instead of an intermediary. The communication from the Information and Broadcasting ministry said there is a view that a small […]
The construction of 12 out of the total 20 river bridges in Gujarat for the 508-km long Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train corridor has been completed. The National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited (NHSRCL) on Sunday (3 November) said that a 120-metre-long bridge over the Kharera river in Navsari district has become the twelfth bridge recently completed […]
Reemphasising the need for fair tax distribution, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah noted that the state receives only about Rs 55,000-60,000 crore from the Centre after contributing over Rs 4 lakh crore in taxes. “We are only getting 14 paise to 15 paise of every one rupee of our contribution. No one should milk a milch […]