Every political party loves to use the bait of loan waiver to woo the electorate. If their hearts bleed for the poor, they can always use the party funds to pay off the lenders, suggests Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Justices A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and L Nageshwar Rao were on Friday sworn in as Supreme Court judges, taking the apex court's strength to 29, including Chief Justice T S Thakur.
Posters have been found on the OsmaniaUniversity campus asking youngsters to join an "armed struggle to achieve Telangana state," prompting police to launch a probe into it.
While Waryam Singh was a non-executive director at HDIL, he is listed as one of the promoters of the company and had relations, including shareholding, with several other entities controlled by the Wadhawans, the HDIL founders.
'As soon as the BJP feels they are going to lose power, they will publish the caste census data of 2011 and conduct the caste census of 2021.'
'With over 50 per cent of medical seats reserved for those who have the ability to pay a fee ranging from Rs 50 lakh to Rs 1.5 crore for a five-year MBBS course and quotas in accordance with affirmative policies in government colleges, the band of seats available for the not-so-rich and non-OBCs is very narrow.'
Amid speculations that Andhra Pradesh students in America were targeted for robbery and murders, came the news of Soumya Tummala Reddy, a 22-year-old electrical engineering student at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, who was shot to death near a lake close to Chicago in September 2008.
Factories are shutting down owing to a shortage of labour and raw materials, and a lack of logistical support amid the ongoing nationwide lockdown against the coronavirus pandemic.
The country has recorded over 20,000 cases of the infection for the fourth consecutive day. India went past Russia on Sunday to become the third worst-hit nation by the COVID-19 pandemic.
'We need more universal films like Dangal, Sultan or Padmavat that work across single screens and multiplexes.'
He was arrested from the campus on May 9 for allegedly depicting Hindu gods and goddesses in "obscene postures."
Chhavi Rajawat quit her job to become a sarpanch in her Rajasthani village. In a conversation with Rediff.com, she spoke of her concerns about the Indian youth, the Indian education system and just what is it she wishes young Indians knew.
Chhavi Rajawat quit her job to become a sarpanch in her Rajasthani village. In a conversation with Rediff.com, she spoke of her concerns about the Indian youth, the Indian education system and just what is it she wishes young Indians knew.
The city ranks number four after Seoul, Beijing and Shanghai globally.
This is Modi's second visit to the temple since he became the prime minister in 2014.
The United States leads the world with more than 1.6 million confirmed coronavirus cases, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
The protests at the Osmania University, which has been the nerve centre of the movement, have intensified and two buses have been burnt down despite heavy police presence. Protests were also witnessed at the Dharna Chowk locality in Hyderabad.
Top officers across various ministries participate in the meeting that started at 8 pm on Saturday. The meeting is currently underway. The country is currently witnessing a second and more severe wave of the pandemic.
Hundreds of security personnel were on Friday deployed in violence-hit areas near Osmania University campus in Hyderabad, amid a bandh call by pro-Telangana students and supporters who went on a rampage on Thursday night.
India is the fifth worst-hit nation by the COVID-19 pandemic after the United States, Brazil, Russia and the United Kingdom, according to data issued by the Johns Hopkins University.
Congress says K Chandrashekhar Rao backstabbed it; Chandrababu Naidu detests him.
A shoe was hurled at Jawaharlal Nehru University president Kanhaiya Kumar as he was about to address a seminar in Hyderabad on Thursday.
Some Indian students, many of the from Andhra Pradesh, have fallen victims of the Guantanamo Bay mindset of the United States authorities which permits them to use demeaning and dehumanising methods against suspects under investigation or detention in order to prevent them from escaping and to locate them by using the Global Positioning System if they manage to escape.
Senior Union Human Resources Development ministry officials said in Delhi that Justice (retd) Roopanwal will review the entire sequence of events, the circumstances and to establish facts and correctives in the context of the incident in a university.
The education ministry released guidelines last week for the reopening of schools, including for thorough cleaning and disinfection of the premises, flexibility in attendance, no assessment for up to three weeks and ensuring a smooth transition from home-based schooling during the coronavirus-induced lockdown to formal schooling.
A Home Ministry spokesperson said the committee will hold wide-ranging consultations with all sections of people and different political parties and groups in Andhra Pradesh. The committee is headed by former Supreme Court Judge B N Srikrishna.
Breaking the lull in their agitation, the pro-Telangana activists have called for a strike on September 5 to stall the Group I preliminary examinations of the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission. The bandh call has been given by the Osmania University Students Joint Action Committee to press its demand for a quota for the Telangana region in Group I jobs of the state government. Their stand is being supported by the Telangana Joint Action Committee.
'Our only request to the Indian government is that they should act fast and send a plane to evacuate us as people around us are dying'
The answer cannot be that we will beat the disease at the end of the 21 days. And the answer cannot be that it is to halt the spread because the spread is going to happen anyway, notes Aakar Patel.
The Andhra Pradesh government defended in the Supreme Court its controversial decision to deploy elite anti-Naxatite squad 'Greyhounds' to quell the volatile Telangana agitation in Hyderabad's Osmania University campus on Thursday.
The Andhra Pradesh Raj Bhavan sex scandal and the paternity suit a love child filed against Tiwari dogged him in his 80s.
The 27-year old Lakshmanan, who bagged a gold medal at the recently concluded Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar, has already qualified for the World Championships to be held in London next month.
The Andhra Pradesh government heaved a sigh of relief on Friday over the Telangana agitation with the Supreme Court staying the high court order which directed paramilitary forces to be moved out of Osmania university, nerve-centre of the Telangana agitation.
Two Indians have been abducted in Sirte in war-devastated Libya even as two other nationals remain in the custody of Islamic militants.
Do you know what this UK-based MBA student's novel b-school project is? He plans to live on less than a dollar a day and bring power to an Indian orphanage. Intrigued? Read on
The Andhra Pradesh cabinet met on Tuesday to discuss the tense situation after the Telangana fall-out.
The union government is planning to set up energy parks in the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu with a target to generate 60,000 MW of power through use of nuclear fuel, Srikumar Banerjee, chairman, Atomic Energy Commision (AEC) said.
Anjaneyulu, who was one of the several police officials indicted by the Press Council of India, was given the prime positing of Vijaywada police commissioner by the state government during the recent reshuffle of IPS officers.
A wave of joy and cheer on Thursday swept the Osmania University, the nerve centre of the Telangana movement, after the Centre conceded to the demand of carving out a separate state from Andhra Pradesh.
