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Assam CM lays foundation of Eastern India's first skill university
Briti Roy Barman
| Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 14:25 [IST]
Guwahati, Feb 16: Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Monday laid the foundation of the first skill university of eastern India in Darrang district, aimed at imparting training to over 10,000 students in 12 disciplines. The varsity would be built with ...
Raj govt amends prison norms to omit caste-based labour assignment
Briti Roy Barman
| Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 14:07 [IST]
Jaipur, Feb 16: Rajasthan government made three amendments to Prison Rules to omit caste-based labour assignment in jails. This comes after High Court took suo motu cognizance of media report on caste practices in prisons. In Rule 67 on "Cooking ...
Prime accused in Godhra case arrested after 19 years, had poured petrol on train
Briti Roy Barman
| Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 12:49 [IST]
New Delhi, Feb 16: Rafiq Hussain Bhatuk, a prime accused in the 2002 Godhra Sabarmati Express carnage case, has been arrested from Godhra. "He was involved in pelting stones on the compartment and pouring petrol inside before it was set on ...
Woman beaten with sticks, forced to carry ex-husband's brother for 3 km in MP
Briti Roy Barman
| Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 12:43 [IST]
Bhopal, Feb 16: A video has gone viral on social media showing a tribal woman being beaten with sticks and forced to carry her ex-husband's brother on shoulders for 3 km in Madhya Pradesh. The woman was being punished by the ...
Procedure were not followed: Disha Ravi's neighbours
Briti Roy Barman
| Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 11:38 [IST]
Bengaluru, Feb 16: Some of the neighbours of Disha Ravi in Chikkabanavara alleged that proper procedure was not followed when the 21-year-old environment activist was arrested by the Delhi Police from Bengaluru on Saturday afternoon. However, local police have refuted the ...
Bangladesh relocates 2,000 more Rohingya refugees to remote island
Briti Roy Barman
| Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 11:11 [IST]
Dhaka, Feb 16: Bangladesh on Monday sent around 2,000 Rohingya refugees to the remote Bhashan Char island, which is designed to accommodate 1 lakh people. More than 7,000 refugees, including Monday's group, have been relocated to the island since December. ...
Protest in Kolkata over DYFI member's death: Banerjee offers job, financial aid
Briti Roy Barman
| Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 10:35 [IST]
Kolkata, Feb 16: Students' Federation of India (SFI) and Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) staged protest in Kolkata on Monday over death of a DYFI member. One protestor said the deceased was "badly hurt" from "lathi-charge" during February 11 protest ...
BJP IT cell, influencers involved in influencing celebrity tweets: Maha minister
Briti Roy Barman
| Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 10:00 [IST]
Mumbai, Feb 16: Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said on Monday that a preliminary investigation by police has revealed the role of a BJP Information Technology cell head and 12 other influencers in an inquiry related to Indian celebrities tweeting in ...
Ending COVID-19 'very, very easy' compared to tackling climate change: Gates
Briti Roy Barman
| Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 09:26 [IST]
New York, Feb 16: Bill Gates has said ending the global COVID-19 pandemic will be "very, very easy" compared to the task of addressing the climate crisis. Solving climate change would be "the most amazing thing humanity has ever done", he ...
China arrests 70 for producing, selling fake COVID-19 vaccines
Briti Roy Barman
| Monday, February 15, 2021, 16:44 [IST]
Beijing, Feb 15: China has arrested 70 people for producing and selling fake coronavirus vaccines in 21 separate cases, the state media reported. One group of suspects made a profit of about 18 million yuan (over Rs 20 crore) by packaging ...
Activists in jail, terrorists on bail: Shashi Tharoor on Disha Ravi's arrest
Briti Roy Barman
| Monday, February 15, 2021, 16:12 [IST]
New Delhi, Feb 15: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor criticised the arrest and subsequent police custody of 21-year-old climate activist Disha Ravi for her alleged role in spreading 'toolkit' related to farmers' protest shared by Greta Thunberg. "Activists in jail while accused ...
Fantastic: Mahindra on report claiming students turning down IITs for CMI
Briti Roy Barman
| Monday, February 15, 2021, 15:42 [IST]
Mumbai, Feb 15: Businessman Anand Mahindra reacted to a report that claimed that students are turning down IITs to study at Chennai Mathematical Institute, an institute funded substantially by the government. "This is fantastic. A perfect marriage of resources," Mahindra ...