Day: February 28, 2020

Plea in HC to direct CBSE affiliated schools to publish docs on criteria to calculate class 10 marks

HC seeks Dy CM Manish Sisodia’s stand on plea challenging his election

7:24 pm February 28, 2020

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Friday sought response of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on a plea challenging his election from the Padparganj constituency in the Delhi Assembly polls. Justice V K Rao also sought response from the Election Commission’s Media Certification and Monitoring Committee (MCMC) and the returning officer on the petition […]

Nirbhaya case: Death row convict Pawan Gupta files curative plea in SC

7:18 pm February 28, 2020

New Delhi: One of the four death row convicts, Pawan Kumar Gupta, in the 2012 Nirbhaya gang rape and murder case moved a curative plea in the Supreme Court on Friday seeking commutation of his death penalty to life imprisonment. Gupta (25), against whom the death warrant has been issued for execution along with three […]

Voting rights: Kerala NRIs demand changes to People Act

7:17 pm February 28, 2020

Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Non- Resident Indians (NRI) Commission on Friday demanded the right to vote from their workplace and passed a unanimous resolution seeking amendment to the Representation of the People Act in this regard. The commission is a statutory body constituted under the Non-Resident Indian (Keralites) Commissions Act, 2016, for the welfare of non-resident […]

Visva-Bharati teachers, students condemn campus violence

Visva Bharati teachers, students assure legal help to Bangladeshi student asked to leave India

7:13 pm February 28, 2020

Kolkata: A section of teachers and some students at Visva Bharati University have assured legal help to the Bangladeshi student, who was asked to leave the country for engaging in “anti-government activities”. Afsara Anika Meem, an undergraduate student at the central university, was served a ‘Leave India Notice’ by the Foreigners’ Regional Registration Office, Kolkata […]

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

UP Assembly adjourns sine die, opposition cries foul

7:09 pm February 28, 2020

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Assembly was on Friday abruptly adjourned a week ahead of schedule with the BJP-majority House passing the state Budget without a detailed department-by-department discussion, a move protested by the Opposition. The House was earlier supposed to continue till March 6. But a revised schedule brought up by the government scrapped the […]