The Islamic State has executed at least 24 civilians after seizing a village in northern Syria from a US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance, a monitor said on Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said IS executed 24 civilians “in the last 24 hours” after taking Buyir from the Syrian Democratic Forces. ... Read More »
Controversial former BJP leader Dayashankar Singh, who made derogatory remarks against the former Chief Minister Mayawati, was arrested by the UP police with the help of the Bihar police. Mr. Singh was arrested at Sugar Mill Colony in Buxar. Mr. Singh, who originally hails from Buxar district, spent his childhood ... Read More »
Sruthi Palaniappan, whose parents immigrated to the United States in 1992 from Chennai, was the youngest delegate to attend to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) that ended on Thursday night. The 18-year-old high school graduate is set to join the Harvard University to study government. She also spoke on behalf ... Read More »
Donald Trump launched a fresh takedown of Hillary Clinton on Friday, with the Republican presidential nominee leading the effort and dispatching his surrogates to join the attack. The real estate mogul maintained the blitz, even as Clinton and her running mate, Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, kicked off a post-Democratic National ... Read More »
HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar held a closed-door meeting Wednesday with senior functionaries of the RSS and representatives of several affiliated outfits on the new national education policy, making this his first formal interaction with the Sangh since he took charge of his new portfolio this month. According to sources, Javadekar ... Read More »
Keeping the guessing game going, SBI Chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya on Friday stated that her name being considered for RBI’s Governor’s position is media speculation as she is “not saying anything” on it. Responding to a media query on the most talked about succession race to the Mint Street corner office, ... Read More »
New Delhi: On Wednesday, newly-appointed human resource development (HRD) minister Prakash Javadekar had a close door meeting with the BJP’s ideological fount, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and some of its affiliate organisations, to seek their suggestions on the draft national education policy (NEP). According to sources in the HRD ministry, the six-hour meeting was ... Read More »
Figures submitted by State governments to the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) have led the monitoring body to observe that while “many States have generally allocated funds to the Scheduled Caste Sub-Plan (SCSP) on a par with the Scheduled Castes (SC) population of the States, the actual expenditures under ... Read More »
Another month, another terrible patent being asserted in theEastern District of Texas. Solocron Education LLC, a company whose entire “education” business is filing lawsuits, owns U.S. Patent No. 6,263,439, titled “Verification system for non-traditional learning operations.” What kind of “verification system” does Solocron claim to have invented? Passwords. The patent ... Read More »
Declared a proclaimed offender by the Indian authorities and now living in London, liquor baron Vijay Mallya failed to get any relief from the Delhi High Court which on Friday asked him to appear before the trial court in a number of cheque-bounce cases filed against him by Delhi International ... Read More »
Though there is a private school next to his house, Mustafa, a resident of Kuttar, has been sending his three children to the Government Higher Primary School in Munnooru, which is a kilometre away. It is the quality education and discipline there that made Mustafa admit his children in school ... Read More »
It’s a barren plot on the outskirts of Istanbul, its stony ground baking under the merciless summer sun. A single sign gives a macabre clue as to the intended use of the arid patch. “Traitors’ graveyard,” say the white capital letters on the black sign, planted on two stakes into ... Read More »
