Current Affairs

Celebrate World Water Day by tackling the water crisis

March 22 is recognised as World Water Day, every year. Celebrate World Water Day by tackling the water crisis. The theme focusing this year is ‘Leaving no one behind’. No one should be left...

First transgender Sisily George is the voter from Kozhiikode

3A trans named Sisily George is excited to cast her vote ever in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. In Kozhikode, Sisily is the first transgender in Kozhikode to get Election Commission’s identity card with...

EVMs in LS polls to have candidate’s photographs to evade complexity

The Election Commission on Sunday announced that during the 2019 Loka Sabha elections, all EVMs will have photographs of the candidates to evade confusion over similar names. Candidates photograph will be printed on the...

Air strikes bring solace this morning

Family members of CRPF personnel, who lost their lives in Pulwama attack, on Tuesday said they have obtained some relief in the airstrike against Jaish e Mohammed terrorists but clasped for efforts to wipe...

Centre denied Jamia’s offer to confer honorary doctorate to SRK

The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development denied Jamia Milia Islamia University’s request to award an honorary doctorate to actor Shah Rukh Khan in 2018, based on an RTI response. The government withdrew the...

India wants more women in LS, says survey

The population ratio of India is 943 females per 1000 of males. Yet, of the 545 seats in the lower house of the parliament, only 61 are occupied by women at present. That means...

Centre’s lack of interest to release NSSO’s report on unemployment questioned

The central government’s lack of interest to release the report of National Sample Survey Office on raising unemployment has been questioned by several popular economic experts. Recently, a national daily reported that the rate...

BJD chief’s sister declines Padma Award

Renowned English writer Gita Mehta, who is the sister of Odisha Chief Minister and Biju Janatha Dal strongman Naveen Patnaik, has declined Padma Award, indirectly citing that the timing of the award gives wrong...

SC seeks centre’s opinion on plea challenging economic reservation quota

The Supreme Court has sought the central government’s opinion on a plea challenging the government’s recent decision to provide nearly ten per cent reservation to the economically backward people belonging to the general category....

Centre aims to wrist the support of rural with sops

The central government has recently decided to hike the pension rates of elderly, widows and disabled people. There are reports that similar policies are likely to be released in the near future. Clearly, the...