The demand for the enumeration of people belonging to other backward classes (OBCs) is becoming a political hot potato for the ruling BJP. The party is committed to doing it, but states ought to do it first, says K Laxman, national president of BJP‘s OBC Morcha and former head of the party’s Telangana unit. Edited … Read more
Justice Thomas said the left had adopted tactics that conservatives would not employ. “You would never visit Supreme Court justices’ houses when things didn’t go our way,” he said. “We didn’t throw temper tantrums. It is incumbent on us to always act appropriately, and not to repay tit for tat.” He added that conservatives had … Read more
Delhi on Saturday recorded 673 new Covid cases and four more deaths, while the positivity rate stood at 2.77 per cent, according to data shared by the health department here. The city on Friday had also reported four deaths, the highest single-day fatality count in over two months. Delhi had logged three Covid deaths on … Read more
May 14, 2022 — Four seniors at the U.S. Air Force Academy may not be allowed to graduate because they have refused to take a COVID-19 vaccine, The Associated Press reported. The Department of Defense mandated last year that all military service members, including military academy students, be vaccinated against COVID-19 unless they’re granted an … Read more
The cancer campaigner says the prince went “above and beyond” in visiting her to confer her damehood. Source link
Senior US senators visit Zelenskiy The US Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, has joined the growing list of US politicians making visits to Kyiv, it has emerged. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, welcomed McConnell’s visit as a powerful signal of bipartisan support for Ukraine. McConnell led a delegation, which included Republican senators Susan Collins of … Read more
Boris Johnson is accused of “playing politics with children’s health” after delaying new restrictions. Source link
With the Yamuna drying up under the blazing sun and Haryana not responding to SOS calls, authorities in Delhi are barely meeting the drinking water demand in several areas, officials said on Saturday. The level in the Wazirabad pond has dropped to 670.70 feet, the lowest this year. It was 671.80 feet on Thursday. The … Read more
The government said it would still allow exports backed by already issued letters of credit and to countries that request supplies “to meet their food security needs.” The move to ban overseas shipments was not in perpetuity and could be revised, senior government officials told a press conference. Global buyers were banking on supplies from … Read more
India banned wheat exports without government approval Saturday after its hottest March on record hit production, in a blow to countries reeling from supply shortages and soaring prices since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The announcement drew sharp criticism from the Group of Seven industrialised nations’ agriculture ministers meeting in Germany, who said that such measures … Read more