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Candidate forced to breastfeed baby outside exam centre

11:02 pm September 1, 2019

Kolkata: A candidate of the West Bengal Integrated Child Development Society (ICDS) examination on Sunday was allegedly compelled to breastfeed her baby in the open outside due to lack of facilities for it inside the building. The incident took place at a school building in South 24 Parganas district’s Baruipur. The 21-year-old woman’s husband told […]

India tightens regulatory grip on Facebook, WhatsApp with new rules

SC seeks Centre’s reply on Facebook’s plea over linking social media accounts with Aadhaar

11:38 pm August 20, 2019

New Delhi: The Supreme Tuesday sought response from the Centre, Google, WhatsApp, Twitter, YouTube and others on Facebook Inc’s plea seeking transfer of cases related to linking of social media accounts with Aadhaar, pending in different high courts to the apex court. The top court agreed to hear the Facebook plea and sought responses of […]

Mamata presents vote on account for Rs 2.99 lakh cr in House, oppn parties boycott speech

Seek answers on growing unemployment, Mamata tells youths

11:37 am August 12, 2019

Kolkata: A day after slamming the Centre for highest unemployment rate in the country in 45 years, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday urged the youngsters to raise questions on growing joblessness. Banerjee assured support to the youth on the occasion of the International Youth Day. “Today is International #YouthDay. In #Bangla, we […]

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

HC asks Centre to examine whether to restrain Google from uploading Indian maps

10:11 pm July 24, 2019

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court directed the Centre on Wednesday to examine whether Google should be restrained from uploading maps of India, including defence installations, on its web service. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar issued the directions while disposing a plea moved by a lawyer, Kisalaya […]

Heavy rainfall in several parts of Kerala

Centre asks civic bodies to set up cell for rainwater harvesting

2:06 pm July 7, 2019

New Delhi: The Centre has asked all urban local bodies to set up a cell for effective monitoring of rainwater harvesting and revive at least one water body in their respective areas. The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry has issued ‘Guidelines for Urban Water Conservation’, saying the ‘Rainwater Harvesting Cell’ of municipal corporations will […]

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