We can’t deny entry pass if there is a demand from voters, Ramesh Jigajinagi says and defends Pratap Simmha

We can’t deny entry pass if there is a demand from voters, Ramesh Jigajinagi says and defends Pratap Simmha

Ramesh Jigajinagi is the Vijayapura MP. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO Member of Parliament Ramesh Jigajinagi has batted in favour of Mysuru and Kodagu MP Pratap Simmha stating that the “colour bomb incident inside Parliament has been a big lapse. I was present on the spot. However, it is not correct to say that it … Read more

Malaysia joins Thailand and Sri Lanka in granting visa-free entry for Indians

Malaysia joins Thailand and Sri Lanka in granting visa-free entry for Indians

Image for representation purpose only. Malaysia will grant a 30-day visa-free entry for Indian and Chinese citizens from December 1, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has announced, joining Thailand and Sri Lanka in recent weeks to offer such a facility to foreigners to promote tourism. Mr. Ibrahim said the waiver was an additional facility to the … Read more

Residents’ body to resume agitation demanding city entry of Goshree buses

Residents’ body to resume agitation demanding city entry of Goshree buses

Passengers rush to catch a Vypeen-bound bus at Hight Court Junction in Kochi on Saturday. | Photo Credit: THULASI KAKKAT With the Transport department remaining non-committal on the city entry of private buses from Goshree islands despite the expiry of the revised deadline of November 1, Federation of Residents Associations Apex Council in Goshree Islands … Read more

High drama at IISc Bengaluru after security personnel attempt to block entry to Teesta Setalvad

High drama at IISc Bengaluru after security personnel attempt to block entry to Teesta Setalvad

Civil rights activist Teesta Setalvad delivering a talk on “Communal Harmony and Justice”, organised by Break the Silence, a collective of IISc students in Bengaluru on August 16, 2023.   | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru campus witnessed animated drama after security personnel of the premier institute blocked civil rights activist Teesta Setalvad at two … Read more

M. P. school disallows student entry over ‘tilak’ 

M. P. school disallows student entry over ‘tilak’ 

A private school in Indore has been asked by the Education Department to maintain “all religion harmony” after it allegedly disallowed a student from sporting a tilak (religious mark on forehead with vermilion), an official said on Sunday. A video of the student standing outside Shree Bal Vigyan Shishu Vihar Higher Secondary School claiming he … Read more

VCK urges T.N. govt to ensure entry of all communities into temples

VCK urges T.N. govt to ensure entry of all communities into temples

Thol. Thirumavalavan. File | Photo Credit: B. Velankanni Raj A meeting of the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK)‘s high-level committee has adopted a resolution urging the Tamil Nadu government to take steps to ensure the rights of all communities to worship in temples across the State and demanded action against those preventing such entry. VCK founder … Read more

17 senior positions in Central government to be filled through lateral entry 

17 senior positions in Central government to be filled through lateral entry 

The Government has decided to recruit 17 senior officers in the Central government from the private sector through lateral entry. The recruitment is for the post of three joint secretaries and 14 officials at the rank of directors and deputy secretaries in the Ministries of Health and Family Welfare, Power, Rural Development, Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, … Read more

Sudanese NHS doctor ‘betrayed’ after being refused entry onto evacuation flight to UK

Sudanese NHS doctor ‘betrayed’ after being refused entry onto evacuation flight to UK

Speaking on Newsnight, Dr Nadia Baasher of the Sudanese Junior Doctor’s Association said Dr Babiker was just one example of a much larger problem. She said she knew of at least 24 NHS doctors in a similar position, having been caught in Sudan while on a short trip there, many of them for the Muslim … Read more

Collector detects two tumbler system, leads Dalits temple entry at Vengaivayal

Collector detects two tumbler system, leads Dalits temple entry at Vengaivayal

Collector Kavitha Ramu interacts with a villager at Vengaivayal on Tuesday. Also seen is SP Vandita Pandey. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The prevalence of the two-tumbler system at a tea shop came to light during an inspection by Pudukottai Collector Kavitha Ramu at Vengaivayal on Tuesday, a day after human faeces were found floating … Read more

Calcutta High Court orders Durga Puja pandals to be turned into no entry zones

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The Calcutta High Court has ordered that all Durga Puja pandals in the state shall be turned into no-entry zones. File photo of a Durga Puja pandal. (Photo: M Zhazo/India Today) Just three days ahead of the festival of Durga Puja, Calcutta High Court has ordered all Durga Puja pandals in West Bengal to be … Read more