मासूमों के साथ होने वाली रेप की घटनाओं को लेकर देशभर में छाए गुस्से के बीच केंद्र सरकार कानून को सख्त करने में जुट गई है. केंद्र सरकार ने कहा है कि 12 साल तक की उम्र के बच्चों के साथ रेप के दोषी को फांसी की सजा दिए जाने की व्यवस्था की जा ... Read More

NEW DELHI: India may finally be able to acquire armed drones from the United States that could transform the capabilities of the armed forces not just in strike operations against China and Pakistan over land and sea but also in operations against terrorists. This comes after the Trump administration came up with a new policy on export of unmanned aerial systems that allows the use of drones to fulfill counter-terrorism objectives. The policy comes just a day after US President Donald Trump promised to short-circuit the long-winded process to sell the drones to its allies. ... Read More

NEW DELHI: Union Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has announced a new expressway connecting Delhi and Mumbai. Though he did not reveal the exact route the new expressway would take, a release from the government indicated it would pass through Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. Gadkari revealed that the government would spend Rs 1 lakh crore on the expressway. The new road would be expected to augment the existing capacity built to connect the two megacities under the Golden Quadrilateral project of the previous NDA government. ... Read More

The CBSE has decided to provide compensation of two marks to Class X students for a typing error in the English question paper. Several teachers and students had approached the Board with the plea that the paper held on March 12 had certain errors in the comprehension passage section. Students had to read a passage and write synonyms for the words endurance, obstruction, and motivation. But the paragraphs they were supposed to look at were incorrectly marked, they had said in an online petition. ... Read More

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Friday began the day-long fast to protest against the Centres indifferent attitude. The Chief Minister had earlier sought people’s cooperation for his April 20 ‘Dharma Porata Deeksha’, against the injustice meted by the Central government to A.P. in the implementation of the Reorganisation Act and in fulfilling the assurances given in the RS at the time of bifurcation. ... Read More

The Supreme Court on Thursday derided the Loya PIL petitions as a case in point of how public interest litigation has become an “industry of vested interests” rather than a powerful tool to espouse the cause of the marginalised and oppressed. A Bench of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and D.Y. Chandrachud said the essential aspect of a genuine PIL petition was that the “person who moves the court has no personal interest in the outcome of the proceedings, apart from a general standing as a citizen before the court.” ... Read More