Adani Group announces MoU with Ballard for Hydrogen fuel cells in India

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SC Asks the Centre to Place Before it “Relevant Documents” related to 2016 Demonetisation

December 7, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Dec 7: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Centre and the Reserve Bank of India to place on record all the “relevant records” relating to the government’s decision in November, 2016, to demonetise high value currency notes of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 for its perusal. The Attorney-General said the documents will be […]

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Review Petitions in SC on EWS Quota

December 7, 2022 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Dec 7: Challenging the majority judgement of the Supreme Court upholding 10 per cent reservation for the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) among the unreserved categories, the All India Backward Classes Federation on Wednesday filed a review petition in the apex court. The review petition said the majority opinions of three judges on the Bench […]

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Government – Judiciary Tussle: VP Asks RS to “Actively Address” the Issue of Revival of NJAC

December 7, 2022 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Dec 7: On the first day as the chairman of the Rajya Sabha, the vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday again enlivened the tussle between the government and the judiciary over the appointment of judges calling upon the lawmakers to actively address the issue. In his maiden address to the upper house […]

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Zero Covid: China relents, eases curbs to contain mass agitation against Xi regime

December 7, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Rattled to the core because of widespread mass agitations against Zero Covid policy and the Communist regime led by President Xi Jinping, China on Wednesday eased many pandemic restrictions, allowed some people to quarantine at home rather than in centralized camps, and scrapped compulsory test requirements to enter most public […]

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BJP’s 15-Year Rule in Delhi Civic Body Ends as AAP Edges it out by 134-104 Seats

December 7, 2022 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Dec 7: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) managed to edge out the BJP from the prestigious Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) in an election that turned out to be much closer than most of the exit polls predicted with the saffron party despite being facing anti-incumbency factor still managing to win […]

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Sri Aurobindo at 150: How he stood against caste discrimination and a more inclusive Hinduism

December 7, 2022 Vinayak Barot

(Written by Guru Prakash Paswan and Sudarshan Ramabadran) Bengal has produced several seminal thinkers who have set up the foundations of our progress as a civilisational nation-state. Celebrating 75 years of Independence this year, India is taking nascent but steady steps towards enabling social cohesion and is contributing to enabling diversity, equity, and inclusion. Ramakrishna […]

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Gautam Adani among 3 Indian billionaires on Forbes Asia Heroes of Philanthropy list

December 6, 2022 Vinayak Barot

Singapore, Dec 6 (PTI) Indian billionaires Gautam Adani, Shiv Nadar, and Ashok Soota, as well as Malaysian-Indian businessman Brahmal Vasudevan and his lawyer wife Shanthi Kandiah, were named in the 16th edition of Forbes Asia’s Heroes of Philanthropy list released on Tuesday. The unranked list “highlights leading altruists in the Asia-Pacific region who demonstrated a […]