Fire reported at Iran’s Evin prison; state media says situation is ‘under control’ Fire and gunshots erupted at Tehran’s notorious Evin prison on Saturday night, an Oslo-based rights group reported, as the protest movement sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death in custody entered a fifth week .Flames and a plume of smoke could be seen billowing […]
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When American educationist Sal Khan started Khan Academy in 2008, he would probably not have imagined the platform would eventually help government school children in rural Punjab solve maths problems — in their mother tongue, Punjabi. A room at the Punjab Education Department’s office in Mohali was turned into a studio, with softwares for screen […]
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A rocket crashed back to Earth shortly after liftoff Monday in the first launch accident for Jeff Bezos’ space travel company, but the capsule carrying experiments managed to parachute to safety. No one was aboard the Blue Origin flight, which used the same kind of rocket as the one that sends paying customers to the […]
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Following complaints that some primary and high schools in Bengaluru were avoiding singing the national anthem during the morning assembly, Karnataka’s Department of School Education and Literacy has issued an order, making Jana, Gana, Mana compulsory. According to a department official, complaints were made to Education Minister B C Nagesh that certain private schools in […]
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India-China ties seeing a positive impetus, says Chinese Ambassador India and China are seeing a “positive impetus” to ties, given two meetings between the Foreign Ministers in the past few months and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s attendance at the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) summit in June, Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong said on […]
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Salman Rushdie stabbed in the neck at New York lecture event Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck on Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. […]
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From IC-814 to Pulwama, India-U.S. proposal lists Rauf Asghar role in every JeM terror attack Rauf Asghar, the brother of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar, organised, planned and executed the IC-814 hijacking in December 1999 that finally ended after the Vajpayee government agreed to release his brother Masood Azhar and two other major terrorists, India and […]
Continue ReadingCentre releases ₹1.16 lakh crore to States to boost spending The Centre on Wednesday released over ₹1.16 lakh crore to States, equivalent to two monthly instalments of tax devolution, to help front-load State governments’ capital spending abilities in this financial year. Centre says buying flag is voluntary The Union Culture Ministry had asked States to […]
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Three LeT militants 3 trapped in J&K’s Budgam, encounter on Three Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants, including a ‘wanted commander’, have been encircled and engaged in a gunfight in central Kashmir’s Budgam district, the J&K police said on Wednesday, August 10, 2022 UN’s terror sanctions regime at an ‘all time low’, says India The credibility of the United Nations’ sanctions […]
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