The Nirbhaya fund, set up by the centre in 2013 to be used towards ensuring women's safety, has seen a dismal nine per cent utilisation with states such as Maharashtra and Meghalaya not spending a single rupee from it, according to government data.
The Delhi police showed maximum restraint despite provocation during violence at Jamia Millia Islamia university on Sunday, a senior official said on Monday, amid criticism that excessive force was used against students.
Edited by Vaibhav Tiwari | Monday December 16, 2019, New Delhi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has paid tributes to the soldiers of Indian armed forces on Vijay Diwas, saying the history they had created would remain embossed in golden letters.
Payal Rohatgi, a small-time Bollywood actress, was arrested and sent to judicial custody till December 24 by a local court in Rajasthan this morning, in connection with posting allegedly objectionable content about the Nehru-Gandhi family on social media
Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Monday December 16, 2019, New Delhi
Filmstar Akshay Kumar said today that he had "by mistake" liked a tweet that appeared to mock the police crackdown on Jamia Millia University students during a protest on Sunday evening against the citizenship law.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said he has sought time from Union Home Minister Amit Shah to discuss the deteriorating law and order situation in the national capital.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi described as "deeply distressing" the violence on Sunday evening during protests at the Jamia Millia Islamia University against the citizenship law. Damage to public property and disturbing normal life had not been part of the country's ethos, he said in tweets today.
Edited by Maitree Baral | Monday December 16, 2019, New Delhi
The Mathematics Doctoral Scholarship 2020 test will be held on January 25. The National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM) would conduct the exam for selecting candidates for grant of the scholarship.
The Right To Information Act (RTI) is being abused the Supreme Court said this morning, adding that guidelines needed to be framed to stop that abuse. The court also said it gave the centre 3 months to complete appointments to CIC
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday termed the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens as "weapons of mass polarisation" unleashed by fascists on India and said the best defence against them is peaceful satyagraha.
Students of Mumbai's Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) have called for a boycott of classes and field work today in solidarity with their counterparts in Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University
Protests over the amended Citizenship Act continued in Bengal for the fourth consecutive day on Monday, with incidents of road and rail blockades reported from various parts of the state, officials said.
