Pakistani authorities have sealed 182 ‘madrassas’ since the deadly Peshawar school attack in 2014, in a countrywide crackdown on religious seminaries allegedly involved in extremism, a media report said on Monday. The madrassas were closed in Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa because of their involvement in promoting extremism and other suspicious activities, the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) news agency […]
» Read moreThe Kapu Aikya Garjana, public meeting conducted by former Andhra Pradesh Minister Mudragada Padmanabham, demanding the inclusion of Kapus in the list of Backward Classes, turned violent with the agitators setting the Ratnachal Express and the Tuni police station on fire on Sunday. Thousands of people belonging to the Kapu community reached V. Kotthuru village by afternoon to attend the […]
» Read moreA ‘selfie’ moment ended in a tragedy for a 16-year-old student who was run over a speeding train while trying to click a picture of him beside the train. Dinesh Kumar, a Class XI student, was walking along the railway track with a friend at suburban Vandalur on Sunday evening when the incident happened, police said today. He tried to […]
» Read morePakistan plans to seek more evidence from India, a media report said on Monday. This comes days after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the outcome of the investigation into the assault would be made public soon. A Pakistani Government team, which is investigating the attack, will ask the Foreign Ministry to seek more evidence from India. “The team has almost […]
» Read moreIndia ranks fourth on the list of nations with the most number of thinktanks, with nearly 100 new ones taking the country’s total to 280 in 2015. Last year, India ranked fifth with 192 thinktanks. The US tops the list for 2015 with 1,835 thinktanks, followed by China and the United Kingdom with 435 and 288, respectively, according to the ‘Global […]
» Read moreThe Pune based organisation, Bharatiya Chatra Sansad, in partnership with MIT School of Governance, has honoured Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu with “Aadarsh Mukhyamantri Puraskar” (Model CM Award) in its 6th annual session on Saturday. The Sansad has stated that Chandrababu Naidu has become icon for good governance in the country and is one of the seven living […]
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