PM, shah & CM’s to attend BJP’s lS poll meeting
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president Amit Shah and 15 Chief Ministers of the party will attend a meeting here on Tuesday as it gears up for the lok Sabha polls, which are less than eight months away.
SC: put anti-sexual harassment info on sites
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the registries of all High Courts to put on their respective websites that they have set up anti-sexual harassment committees in the HCs and their subordinate district courts across the country. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra took note of the reports filed by the High Court registries that they have complied with a direction of the Apex court.
NDA to highlight work for backward: paswan
New Delhi: lJP president Ram Vilas Paswan on Monday announced that the NDA will soon start a nation-wide pro-Dalit and pro-backward communities programme, which will include rallies and conferences to highlight all the initiatives undertaken by the NDA-Government for Dalits and other backward communities. Paswan asserted that the BJP-led alliance of four parties will remain intact in Bihar. He played down speculation of growing friendship between Union Minister Upendra Kushwaha (RlSP) and RJD chief lalu Prasad Yadav.
SC stays jail term to advocate
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday stayed a one-month jail term awarded to an advocate, Maneesh Vashistha, by the Punjab and Haryana High Court for allegedly writing a post on social networking site Facebook to criticise an order.
helpline for nutrition, malnutrition queries
New Delhi: A toll-free helpline, 14408, was launched today to address queries associated with nutrition and malnutrition, a major area of concern in the country. The number could be used by stakeholders like the workers of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Anganwadis and even general public to put queries on nutrition and malnutrition.The helpline number has been launched under the Poshan Abhiyan, also called National Nutrition Mission, that aims to bring down stunting of children in the age group of 0-6 years from 38.4 per cent to 25 per cent by 2022.
Purohit moves sc for court-monitered probe
New Delhi: lt Col Prasad Shrikant Purohit on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking a court-monitored probe by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into his alleged abduction, illegal detention and brutal torture in the 2008 Malegaon blast case.
uk students visits amity University
New Delhi: As part of two week long Amity-India Immersion Programme, 14 international students from Brunel University, Southampton Solent University and University of Kent, UK pursuing different programmes are on a study tour to Amity University Noida campus till September 9, 2018. The students will be familiarized with topics such as Indian Economy and Business Environment, Growth of Indian Science & Technology, Indian History & Religion and Pitfalls and Opportunities of doing Business in India among others.