Osho Ashram land sale issue, followers write to PM for intervention

01 Jul 2021

Disciples of Osho have urged Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari to launch an investigation into activities of Osho International Foundation (OIF), a charitable trust, and also sought his intervention to stop the bid to sell two plots of the Osho Ashram at Koregaonkar Park in Pune delegation of Osho disciples...

Bengal post-poll violence: NHRC submits report to HC, adjourns case to 2 July

01 Jul 2021

A delegation from the National Human Rights Commission filed a report in the Kolkata High Court on Wednesday in a post-poll violence case. However, the commission said that the report was incomplete and asked the court for more time. The commission compiled the report after inspecting various areas affected by...

HOW DELTA PLUS CAN UNLEASH ANOTHER WAVE ON INDIA

29 Jun 2021

The Delta Plus variant, a variant of concern, has already been identified in 11 countries and 12 states in India. It is the mutated form of the Delta variant of Covid-19 which was first detected in India. This variant is concerning since it spreads more rapidly than the other Covid-19...

Making it happen: Odisha does it again

29 Jun 2021

The remarkable manner in which the state of Odisha gets back to normalcy after being repeatedly hit by natural disasters is a lesson to other states. This story is about the restoration of electricity network after the devastation caused by “Yaas”. The coastal districts of Odisha are vulnerable to frequent...

All-round development alone can usher in peace in Valley

29 Jun 2021

I have visited Kashmir Valley a number of times and have travelled the Valley in almost all seasons. Everytime I visited the Valley and saw the implausible beauty nature has endowed it with, the words of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir expressed about 500 years ago started resonating in my ears....

50 YEARS OF 1971 INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR: VICTORY FLAME ENTERS J&K’S KUPWARA

29 Jun 2021

The ‘Swarnim Vijay Varsh Victory Mashaal’, symbolic of India’s 1971 War Victory reached North Kashmir’s “Vilgam” of border district of Kupwara. It was given a grand reception at Vilgam to commemorate 50 Years of India’s victory over Pakistan in the epic war of 1971. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of...

DEFENCE MINISTER IN LADAKH, INAUGURATES 63 BRIDGES BUILT BY BRO IN SIX STATES AND TWO UTS

29 Jun 2021

NEW DELHI: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh dedicated to the nation 63 bridges, built by Border Roads Organisation (BRO), in six states and two Union Territories (UTs), at an event held at Kyungam, 88 kms from Leh in the Union Territory of Ladakh on June 28, 2021. The bridges were inaugurated...

Theorising ‘group dignity’ as a constitutional value

29 Jun 2021

The Sabarimala courtroom tussle is yet to unravel. In an order dated 10.02.2020 in Kantaru Rajeevaru v. Indian Young Lawyers Association, Review Petition (Civil) No. 3358 of 2018, a Nine-Judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court framed seven issues to be addressed by the court, one of them being examination...

VIRUS THAT CAUSES COVID CAN FIND ALTERNATE ROUTE TO INFECT CELLS

28 Jun 2021

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists identified how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, gets inside cells to cause infection. All current COVID-19 vaccines and antibody-based therapeutics were designed to disrupt this route into cells, which requires a receptor called ACE2. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in...

Biometric and intelligence authentication M&A transactions: A paradigm to new digital era

28 Jun 2021

‘Imagine living in a future where the crimes are being averted before even them taking place, the sales associates are in your beck and call, the phone, car, computer, house everything gets unlocked through facial recognition.’ INTRODUCTION A biometric identifier is a tool that has the main intention of computing...