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Centre Announces ₹200 Cut in LPG Cylinder Prices, Provides Relief to Consumers Ahead of Festive Season

August 29, 2023 Editor

The Centre has slashed the prices of cooking gas by ₹200 per cylinder for all domestic consumers during the Union cabinet meeting on Tuesday. The cabinet has approved an additional subsidy under the Ujjwala scheme. The additional subsidy is ₹200. Now subsidy will be ₹400 per cylinder for Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) beneficiaries. At present, 14.2-kg LPG cylinder costs ₹1,103 in New Delhi. It will cost ₹903 from Wednesday. In the same way, the price will be ₹703 for Ujjwala beneficiaries after considering the continuing ₹200 per cylinder subsidy.…

5 Things to know about New Covid-19 Variant BA.2.86, says Expert

August 29, 2023 Editor

Coronavirus has been changing and evolving ever since it was first discovered in the year 2019 and became a global concern in a matter of few months. The original Covid strain soon turned into the ‘deadly Delta’ taking a huge toll across the globe. With massive vaccination drive all across India and other parts of the world, and the efforts of Covid warriors including scientists, medical practitioners, doctors, nurses, this health crisis could be curbed. As Covid transformed into a way milder Omicron variant, the symptoms became less severe and…

Teacher’s Question to Muslim Student ‘Why didn’t you go to Pakistan?’ Raises alarms about Religious Intolerance

August 29, 2023 Editor

This comes amid the outrage over a video from UP in which students are seen slapping a Muslim classmate on the order of their teacher. The teacher, Tripta Tyagi, is heard making communal remarks in the video Four students of a Delhi school have alleged that their teacher made communal remarks and asked them why their families did not go to Pakistan during Partition. This comes amid the outrage over a viral video from Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar, where students are seen slapping a Muslim classmate on the order of their…

Article 370 Hearing: Supreme Court tells Centre to give Timeline for Restoration of J&K’s Statehood

August 29, 2023 Editor

The Supreme Court, hearing pleas challenging the abrogation of Article 370, on Tuesday asked the Centre to indicate if there is a time frame to restore the statehood for Jammu and Kashmir, and a roadmap for this progression. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who is representing the Centre, has been asked to come back with instructions on this after the launch break. Several petitions challenging the abrogation of the provisions of Article 370 and the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, which split the erstwhile state into two union territories –…

China’s Inclusion of Arunachal in New Map: Congress Urges Centre to Take Strong Stand

August 29, 2023 Editor

China has officially released the 2023 edition of its “standard map,” which shows the state of Arunachal Pradesh and the Aksai Chin region as part of its territory, prompting a sharp reaction from the Congress. Congress MP Manish Tewari on Tuesday advised the Narendra Modi government to introspect whether it would be appropriate to host Chinese President Xi Jinping at G20 Summit to be held in New Delhi next month. “The absurdity and preposterousness of the Chinese claim is evidenced by the history of the Sino-Indian border dispute…Today, the real…

G20 Summit 2023 New Delhi: Who’s In, Who’s Out?

August 29, 2023 Editor

The G20 Summit, which is scheduled to be held in New Delhi on September 9 and 10, will be attended by several world leaders, who are a part of the grouping. This year will be the 18th G20 Summit and India’s first in terms of presidency. The theme of this year’s G20 is “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” or “One Earth, One Family, One Future”. Preparations for the upcoming G20 Summit in the national capital are in full swing. In view of the event, all central government offices, banks and financial institutions in…

Supreme Court Hearing on Article 370: Centre says Statehood of J&K will be Restored

August 29, 2023 Editor

As SG appeared to be critical of previous governments, CJI told him that he was representing Government of India and in constitutional theory, Government of India was a perpetual entity Maintaining that the current status Jammu and Kashmir as a Union Territory was temporary, the Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that its statehood will be restored. “It’s necessary that for some time it (J&K) remains under the Union as a Union Territory. The Hon’ble Home Minister has said in the House that this is a temporary measure. Ultimately,…

Supreme Court Strikes Down Article 35A, Says It Violated Fundamental Rights of Indians

August 29, 2023 Editor

Article 35A, which granted special rights to permanent residents of the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir, took away a bundle of fundamental rights of the people of India, the Supreme Court observed on Monday, while hearing the matter of the abrogation of Article 370 and the restructuring of J& K into two Union territories. According to a Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, Article 35A, which was added to the Constitution by a Presidential Order in 1954, denuded people of at least three fundamental…

Dalit IAS Officer Alleges Harassment, Humiliation by Lt Governor, Chief Secretary

August 29, 2023 Editor

In a major development, a Dalit whistle blower IAS officer Ashok Kumar Parmar has knocked the doors of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) against Lt Governor Manoj Sinha and chief secretary Arun Mehta for “inflicting harassment and humiliation upon him.” The 1992 AGMUT cadre IAS Parmar who had highlighted “irregularities” in implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission in Jammu and Kashmir, in a complaint to the chairman NCSC has alleged that he was also being frequently transferred for his being a scheduled caste solely for the reason that he…

Kashmir Welcomes Miss World and Other International Beauty Queens

August 29, 2023 Editor

In a major fillip to MICE tourism and in a historic development for the tourism industry of J&K, a group of global beauty divas visited Kashmir on Monday as a prelude to the Miss World pageant 2023 with Tourism Department making all necessary arrangements for the visit. An official spokesman in a statement issued here said that the group includes Miss World, Karolina Bielawska; Miss World Caribbean, Emmy Pena; Miss World America, Shree Saini; Miss World India, Sini Shetty; Miss World England, Jessica Gagen; Miss Asia, Pricilia Carla Saputri Yules;…