DH Evening Brief | Amit Shah attacks Sharad Pawar and Uddhav; special status, NEET, Kanwar yatra dominate all-party meet
Sharad Pawar 'chief of corrupts', Uddhav leader of 'Aurangzeb fan club': Amit Shah
As he launched BJP’s preparations for the forthcoming Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah described Sharad Pawar as “corruption ka sargana” and Uddhav Thackeray as “leader of Aurangzeb fan club”.
Centre to deploy team to support Kerala in probing Nipah virus case
The government will deploy a multi-member joint outbreak response team to support Kerala in investigating a Nipah virus case detected in its Mallapuram district, identifying epidemiological linkages and providing technical assistance.
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Mobile internet suspended in Haryana's Nuh for Braj Mandal Yatra
The Haryana government on Sunday ordered the suspension of mobile internet and bulk SMS services in Nuh for 24 hours, for the Braj Mandal Yatra. The internet shutdown will begin from 6 pm on Sunday.
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India had its own prime meridian passing through Ujjain: New NCERT textbook
India had a prime meridian of its own much ahead of the Greenwich meridian and it was called "madhya rekha", which passed through the city of Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh, according to a new Class-6 NCERT textbook for social science.
Will offer shelter to anyone in distress who comes knocking: Mamata on Bangladesh situation
Responding to the ongoing violence in Bangladesh, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday suggested that she would keep the doors of her state open for people in distress from the neighbouring country and offer them shelter.
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Supreme Court to hear on Monday PIL for court-monitored SIT probe into electoral bonds scheme
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a public interest litigation seeking a court-monitored investigation into the electoral bonds scheme. A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra is likely to hear the PILs filed by NGOs Common Cause and the Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL).
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Plea in Supreme Court seeks stay on proposed re-examination of UGC-NET till CBI probe
A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court against the decision of the Union education ministry to cancel the UGC-NET test following inputs that the exam's integrity may have been compromised. The ministry on June 19 had ordered the cancellation of the UGC-NET exam and handed over the matter to the CBI for an investigation.
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Bangladesh top court scraps most job quotas that triggered deadly protests
Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Sunday scrapped most of the quotas on government jobs that have sparked student-led protests in which at least 114 people have been killed in the South Asian country, local media reported.
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Kanwar Yatra: Plea in SC against UP govt order to display shop owners' names
A plea was filed in the Supreme Court on Sunday, challenging the Uttar Pradesh government's order mandating shop owners to divulge their names and details in front of shops along the Kanwar Yatra route, reported Bar and Bench.
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H D Kumaraswamy doesn't favour Kannadigas: Congress trains guns on JD(S) chief for skipping Cauvery meet
The Congress on Sunday slammed JD(S) chief H D Kumaraswamy for not being present at a meeting on the Cauvery water dispute, alleging that the former chief minister did not care about Kannadigas
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IT outage: Microsoft deploys hundreds of engineers, experts to restore services
US software giant Microsoft has deployed hundreds of engineers and experts with its customers to restore their services after an outage caused by its cyber security partner CrowdStrike, the company said in a blog.
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