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Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini said that the state government has decided to give reservations to the backward classes in Panchayats and urban local bodies in Haryana. CM Nayab Singh Saini attended the civic felicitation and Holi Milan function organized by the Saini community in Jaipur rural on Saturday. Speaking to reporters, Nayab Singh Saini said, "I am happy that we recently made a reservation for the backward classes in Haryana. For a long time, there was a demand here that the limit should be increased, and in Haryana. As soon as I took responsibility for this, I decided to increase it. I am also happy that our government has decided to give reservations to the backward classes in Panchayats and urban local bodies in Haryana." "We have implemented many schemes for women in Haryana like opening separate women stations for women and implementing Lakhpati Didi Bhima Sakhi scheme. We have purchased 100 percent crops of farmers on MSP. We have provided a b...

Bollywood actor Amrita Arora Ladak on Saturday deposed as a witness before a court here in the case concerning Saif Ali Khan, who was accused of attacking an NRI businessman and his father-in-law at a five-star hotel in 2012. The actor was part of the group that had gone for dinner with Khan at the hotel when the alleged incident took place on February 22, 2012. She told the court that the hotel had allotted a separate enclosure to them, and they were dining there and having a good time. In the meantime, the complainant came there and began shouting and abusing them, she said. "We saw someone barging into our enclosure and, in a very loud, aggressive voice, told us to shut up and keep quiet. We all got shocked at what was happening," she said, adding that actor Khan immediately stood up and apologised. The man then left and they continued with their dinner, she said. After a while, when Khan excused himself to go to the washroom, they heard loud voices, one of them bein...

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, speaking in Lok Sabha on Friday, highlighted incidents involving attack on minorities in Pakistan and Bangladesh. The minister said New Delhi is tracking "very closely" the treatment of minorities in Pakistan and making its position "well known", but the country cannot change the "fanatical and bigoted mindset" of a neighbour. Replying to a supplementary query during the Question Hour, S Jaishankar pointed to 10 incidents involving attacks on Hindus in Pakistan in February. Seven of these incidents are related to abduction and forced conversion, two other cases linked to abduction, and one to "police action" against students celebrating Holi, S Jaishankar said. The external affairs minister said India also takes up such cases at the international level. Responding to another supplementary question, he said, "Like in Pakistan, we track the welfare and well-being of minorities in Bangladesh as well ...

Three police personnel have been killed in action during an encounter with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district, sources said on Thursday. Two of the terrorists have also been shot dead while three to four terrorists are still holed up. Five security personnel, including a deputy superintendent of police, have also been injured and are undergoing treatment at a hospital. Teams from the Army, the National Security Guard, the Border Security Force, Police, the Special Operations Group, and the Central Reserve Police Force had been carrying out searches in the area for the past five days. There was an exchange of fire on Sunday and a local resident had informed the police on Tuesday that two men in army uniform had asked her for water while they were having food in the area. "Contact has been re-established with militants in the forest area of Juthana under police station Rajbagh in Kathua," an official told news agency IANS, adding that there had been no exc...

Nestled between the Dal Lake and the Zabarwan Hills, Asia's largest tulip garden opened for the public on Wednesday, marking the beginning of a new tourism season in the Kashmir valley. The Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden was thrown open to the public by Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. The garden was set up by Ghulam Nabi Azad, the then chief minister of the erstwhile state in 2007 to advance J-K's tourist season which was earlier limited to the summers and the winters. Formerly known as Siraj Bagh, the garden was opened to the public as tulips of different colours have started to bloom, Floriculture Department officials said. The department plants tulip bulbs in a phased manner so that the flowers remain in bloom for a month or more. This year, the department has added two new varieties of tulips to the garden. A new colour scheme has been introduced this year, and the total number of varieties of tulips and other flowers has risen to 74. Other sprin...

India and China have made progress on the modalities to resume Kailash Manasarovar Yatra in 2025, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said following the official consultation between the Foreign Ministries of India and China, held in Beijing on Wednesday. Gourangalal Das, Joint Secretary (East Asia) at the MEA held a consultative meeting with Liu Jinsong, Director General of the Department of Asian Affairs of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, during which the two sides reviewed the action taken by them to implement the strategic direction as also the specific steps agreed in the meeting between Foreign Secretary and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister in January 2025 to stabilise and rebuild ties. "They took positive note of the developments in bilateral relations since the meeting of the leaders of India and China in October 2024. In the intervening period, the Foreign Ministers have met twice, while the Special Representatives on the India-China boundary question have held...

Justice AS Oka of the Supreme Court today spoke about the people's trust in courts, saying it may not be as much as it is believed to be, and how lawyers using unconstitutional means like a strike can further whittle it down by raising the pendency of cases.  "If today lawyers practising in high courts are taking recourse to something highly unconstitutional, are we not causing great prejudice to litigants?" he said in his address at an event organised by SCAORA or the Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association.   Lawyers and judges, Justice Oka said, often carry the wrong impression that the people have full faith in courts. But such an impression may not be entirely correct and one of the major reasons for lack of faith in judiciary is pendency of cases, he said. "We kept patting our backs that citizens trust the courts, but we have to ask if the citizens are saying that," he said. "I have been to villages etc. The statement that common man has ful...

पश्चिम बंगाल की मुख्‍यमंत्री ममता बनर्जी (Mamata Banerjee) अपनी सादगी के लिए जानी जाती हैं, फिर चाहे देश हो या विदेश. ममता बनर्जी ब्रिटेन की आधिकारिक यात्रा पर हैं. बावजूद इसके न उनका अंदाज बदला है और न ही लिबास. ममता बनर्जी को हम देश में जिन परिधानों में देखते हैं, वैसे ही परिधान में वे लंदन में भी नजर आई हैं. विदेश से उनके देसी अंदाज वाला एक वीडियो सामने आया है, जिसमें ममता बनर्जी जॉगिंग करती दिख रही हैं. सोशल मीडिया पर उनका यह वीडियो बहुत ही पसंद किया जा रहा है. इस दौरान फिटनेस के प्रति उनका क्रेज भी झलकता है.  ममता बनर्जी इस वीडियो में हरी बॉर्डर वाली साड़ी और अपने चिर-परिचित अंदाज में चप्पल पहने नजर आ रही हैं. लंदन के सर्द मौसम के कारण बनर्जी ने काले रंग का ‘कार्डिगन' पहन रखा था और उन्होंने शॉल भी ओढ़ा हुआ था. साथ ही उनके साथ इस वीडियो में बड़ी संख्‍या में लोग नजर आ रहे हैं.  View this post on Instagram A post shared by NDTV India (@ndtvindia) अपनी किसी विदेश यात्रा के दौरान साड़ी पहनकर ममता के ‘जॉगिंग' करने का यह पहला...

भारत ने संयुक्त राष्ट्र में पाकिस्तान की आलोचना करते हुए कहा कि वह जम्मू-कश्मीर के क्षेत्र पर अवैध रूप से कब्जा जारी रखे हुए है, जो उसे खाली करना होगा. ये टिप्पणियां सोमवार को संयुक्त राष्ट्र में भारत के स्थायी प्रतिनिधि राजदूत पार्वथानेनी हरीश ने संयुक्त राष्ट्र शांति अभियानों में अनुकूलता को बढ़ावा देने पर संयुक्त राष्ट्र सुरक्षा परिषद (UNSC) की खुली बहस में कीं. वह पाकिस्तान के कब्जे वाले कश्मीर के संदर्भ में बोल रहे थे. जम्मू कश्मीर भारत का अभिन्न अंग था, है और हमेशा रहेगा संयुक्त राष्ट्र में भारत के स्थायी प्रतिनिधि राजदूत पार्वथानेनी हरीश ने कहा, ‘‘जम्मू-कश्मीर भारत का अभिन्न अंग था, है, और हमेशा रहेगा. पाकिस्तान ने जम्मू-कश्मीर के एक हिस्से पर अवैध रूप से कब्जा जारी रखा है, जो उसे खाली करना होगा.'' पाकिस्तान द्वारा जम्मू-कश्मीर का मुद्दा उठाए जाने पर भारत की दो-टूक हरीश की यह कड़ी प्रतिक्रिया पाकिस्तान द्वारा संयुक्त राष्ट्र सुरक्षा परिषद की खुली बहस के दौरान जम्मू-कश्मीर का मुद्दा उठाए जाने के बाद आई. उन्होंने कहा, ‘‘इस तरह के बार-बार उल्लेख न तो उनके (पाकिस्तान के)...

India's oldest paramilitary force the Assam Rifles celebrated its 190th Raising Day at its headquarters in Meghalaya's capital Shillong today. The 4 Assam Rifles received the 'DGAR Banner' for 2023-24, while 3 Assam Rifles came first runners-up, and 36 Assam Rifles took the second runners-up place. DGAR is short for Director General Assam Rifles. The honours (DGAR Banner) were a significant highlight of the Raising Day ceremony that recognised the dedication, professionalism and outstanding contributions made by battalions and units in ensuring security and stability of the region, the Assam Rifles said in a post on its official Facebook page. Assam Rifles Director General Lieutenant General Vikas Lakhera spoke highly of the personnel for their outstanding contribution in fighting insurgency in the northeast region and Jammu and Kashmir, an official said. The Assam Rifles - 'Sentinels of the North East' - is under the administrative control of the ...

Comedian Samay Raina on Monday expressed regret over a series of remarks that were made on his now-deleted web show "India's Got Latent", and promised to be more careful in ensuring that such incidents are not repeated, sources said. In a statement to the Maharashtra Cyber Cell, Mr Raina, who got into trouble over Podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia's remarks in February that led to a massive furore, "admitted his mistake" and "apologised for whatever happened during the show".  The comedian also said that "everything happened in a flow during the show and that he did not intend to say what he said", the sources added. He promised to be more careful and ensure that such incidents are not repeated.  Besides, the comedian said the entire controversy surrounding his show has taken a toll on his mental well-being. "He said that his Canada tour did not go well. He apologised and said he knew he was wrong," one of the sources said.  Mr ...

Schools must go beyond academics and equip children with the ability to live meaningfully with others in the age of Artificial Intelligence, former Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia said while addressing a gathering of teachers from Delhi, Punjab, and Uttarakhand. Mr Sisodia said the central challenge of the future will not be mastering technology but fostering harmony within oneself, with others, and with nature.  Speaking to teachers associated with an NGO focused on professional development, he emphasized that education must prioritize emotional intelligence, empathy, and coexistence in an era increasingly dominated by machines. The former Delhi Education Minister said the world is undergoing a "rapid transformation due to Artificial Intelligence". "We are entering an era where AI can already write essays, solve math problems, summarize history chapters, and even simulate science experiments," he said.  In such a world, the traditional idea of the teach...

Former Rajya Sabha member and a descendant of the Kolhapur royal family, Sambhajiraje Chhatrapati, has asked Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to remove the memorial of a dog from Raigad Fort. The memorial, built in 1920s, was for "Waghya" meaning "Tiger".  Legend has it that he was a mix breed dog of the Maratha emperor. When Shivaji died, the dog apparently jumped onto his funeral pyre and immolated himself. The Archaeological Survey of India, however, maintained that there is no documentary evidence of such a dog, Sambhajiraje Chhatrapati has claimed.  The former MLA, in a letter to the Chief Minister dated March 22, has stressed that the dog's memorial should be removed before May 31. "A few decades ago, a memorial of a dog named Waghya was erected near that of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at the Raigad Fort, his capital in the 17th century," his letter read. "However, there is no documentary evidence concerning Waghya, the nam...

Krishna Bharati, a Gandhian and daughter of noted freedom fighter late Pasala Krishna Murthy, passed away here on Sunday. She was 92. Krishna Bharati breathed her last at her residence in Snehapuri Colony here following a brief illness. Hailing from the West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, she was the second daughter of freedom fighters Pasala Krishna Murthy and Anja Lakshmi. Krishna Bharati was a strong believer in Gandhian values and upheld the same throughout her life. She also strived for the upliftment of Dalits. She had made donations to educational institutions and goshalas. Krishna Bharati was unmarried. She is survived by four brothers and three sisters. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has condoled the death of Krishna Bharati. He recalled her services for educationally uplifting the weaker sections of society. Prime Minister Narendra Modi touched the feet of Krishna Bharati at Andhra Pradesh's Bhimavaram at a programme to unveil a statue of f...

Jama Masjid Sadar Chief and Shahi Mosque Committee Chief, Zafar Ali, on Sunday claimed that he did not incite any violence regarding the November 24 Sambhal incident. "I did not incite any violence...," said Zafar Ali while being taken into custody by Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday for questioning in connection with the violence that erupted in Sambhal on November 24 last year. Ali was taken to Chandausi for a medical examination amid heavy security. Following his detention, a group of his supporters staged a protest, demanding his immediate release. The police have yet to issue an official statement regarding Ali's role in the case. Earlier today, Zafar Ali and his son were summoned to the Sambhal Police Station for questioning. Security has been tightened outside the Chandausi Court, where both are to be presented as part of the legal proceedings in the case. Circle Officer Anuj Chaudhary said, "There are no new arrangements made... Forces have been deployed t...

The recent filing of closure reports by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the death cases of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput (SSR) has sparked fresh debates and controversies. Advocate Nilesh C Ojha, representing Disha Salian's father, has responded strongly to the CBI's move, asserting that a closure report does not automatically exonerate the accused and that further investigation can still be ordered. Speaking exclusively to IANS, Mr Ojha emphasised that the closure report filed by the CBI in the cases related to Sushant Rajput does not mean that the accused are off the hook. "First of all, there has been no authentic statement from CBI on the closure report. Even after a closure report is submitted, it does not imply that the accused are freed. There is always the possibility that the court could reject the report if it finds it unsatisfactory or if further evidence emerges. The court could order further investigations, issue fresh charge sheets, or ...