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New Delhi, Oct 7: Occupying public places for protests is not acceptable and areas like Shaheen Bagh -- which had seen prolonged anti-CAA demonstrations starting December last year -- cannot be occupied "indefinitely", the Supreme Court held on Wednesday. It said protests should be at a designated place and any occupation of public places or roads by demonstrators, which cause inconvenience to a

Mr. Satyapal Singh, the BJP MP, while speaking in Lok Sabha on amendments to FCRA went on to support the forthcoming restrictions to the foreign contributions. While making his arguments, to buttress his point, he put forward the case of Pastor Graham Stewart Stains. In the process he poured venom on the late Pastor by saying that the Pastor had raped 30 Tribal women and was involved in the work

Bengaluru, Oct 7: Even though the Centre has shown green signals to reopen schools and colleges post-October 15 in keeping with the Unlock 5.0 guidelines, the state government of Karnataka mulling to further postpone the reopening process in the wake of alarming spurt in Covid cases. According to sources, the Karnataka Primary and Secondary Education department has decided to wait for another one

Bengaluru, Nov 10: Amidst complaints over increasing number of false Covid-19 positive cases in the state, the government has invoked the Karnataka Epidemic Diseases Ordinance 2020 to crack down on people who refuse to get tested. Invoking powers under section 4 of the Ordinance, the government on October 6 issued an order stating, "All individuals who are identified for Covid-19 test by the

Lucknow, Oct 6: Amid the nationwide outrage over alleged gang rape and brutal killing of a Scheduled Caste teen, Hathras witnessed yet another horror, when a six-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped by a relative of hers, died at a Delhi hospital, on Tuesday. According to the police sources in Lucknow, the girl, a resident of Hathras, had gone to a relative's house in the neighbouring Aligarh

The 2020 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to Roger Penrose for black hole discovery and Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for discovering “a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.” It is common for several scientists who worked in related fields to share the prize. Last year's prize went to Canadian-born cosmologist James Peebles for theoretical work about the early moments

Mangaluru, Oct 6: Educational intuitions in the coastal district of Dakshina Kannada have been asked to ensure smooth transition of students from home-based schooling to formal schooling and uphold the guidelines issued by the education ministry. Dr K V Rajendra, the Deputy Commissioner of Dakshina Kannada has said that schools, colleges and other training institutes in the district can be

New Delhi, Oct 6: After seven months of shut down due to Covid-19, cinema halls will reopen on October 15 with 50 per cent capacity and one-seat distance between the viewers, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said Tuesday. "Cinema halls are shut for last seven months. They are now opening from October 15. For safety of people, we have come out with SOP to be followed,"

Bengaluru, Oct 6: Veteran Sandalwood director Nagesh Babu breathed his last at a private hospital in Bengaluru due to age related illness on Tuesday morning. He was 87 and is survived by wife Shyamala and three children. The director, who was born in Mandya, had completed his B.sc before entering into the field of films. Though he was a B.sc graduate, his passion towards cinema made him relocate

Lucknow, Oct 6: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government today told the Supreme Court that Hathras victim was cremated in the middle of the night "to avoid large-scale violence". The UP government added in its affidavit to the SC that "extraordinary circumstances forced district administration to take the extraordinary step of cremating the victim at night.” It claimed that