Author: Insha Khan

Thousands of people faced the prospect of being homeless during the harsh winter climate. But now they got a major reprieve from the Supreme Court, on Thursday 5th of January. The eviction drive on the railway land in Haldwani, Uttarakhand has now been paused by the Supreme Court of India. The Supreme Court said that 50,000 people cannot be uprooted overnight. It is a human issue and there should be some workable solution for it. Any sort of construction in that area has been stopped by the court. SC said that the case will be heard in the next month…

There has been a buzz that TCS is offering a 20 per cent salary hike to its 70 per cent of employees and the remaining 30 per cent will get a performance-based hike. The news that Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced a salary hike is spreading all over the country. There have been speculations that the company has announced a 20 per cent salary hike for 70 per cent of its employees as a gift for Christmas and the remaining 30 per cent of its staff will receive performance-based compensation from the company. TCS is the second-largest multinational IT…

WHO data says that the use of seat belts and helmets can reduce serious fatal injuries and deaths by half. According to the report of the Union Road Transport Ministry, a minimum of 8 out of every 10 car occupants (around 83%) who were not wearing seatbelts, were killed in accidents across India in 2021. The report also highlights that two out of every three two-wheeler riders who died in road accidents were not wearing helmets. Deaths of Car Occupants The report titled “Road Accidents in India 2021” highlights that 16,397 out of the total 19,811 car occupants killed last…

The History curriculum will now be a part of the New Education Policy (NEP). The policy was proposed by the government in 2020. On Tuesday, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced that the new and corrected version of Indian History will be taught in all Indian Schools from January 26th, under the New Education Policy. The announcement was made by the union minister while addressing the programme which was jointly organised by the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) and RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Itihas Sankalan Yojana. The minister said that the new curriculum will provide a boost to our mother…

Recent Cases in India Four foreign nationals out of whom two are from England, one from Thailand and one from Myanmar, have tested positive for COVID. They all arrived in India to attend the religious preaching of Tibetan Spiritual Leader Dalai Lama at Bodh Mahotsava in Gaya, Bihar. The corona test of foreign nationals who arrived at Gaya was done on December 23. Out of them, the above-mentioned four tested positive for COVID. The medical officer in charge of the Gaya district, Dr Ranjan Kumar Singh said that there was a drill at the airport which was followed for those…

Recently on Sunday and Monday, police arrested people smuggling gold from abroad to India. 19-year-old Smuggler On Monday, police arrested a 19-year-old girl who was carrying gold worth Rs 1 crore, concealed in her innerwear. The girl had arrived from Dubai on an Air India Express flight. The police didn’t find anything inside her luggage but during physical examination, three packets of the gold compound were found skillfully concealed in her innerwear. She received a payment of Rs.60,000 for being a carrier. She was introduced to this smuggling racket by her friend. Further interrogation is being continued to identify other…

670,000 study permits, 700,000 work permits and 260,000 visitor visas processed by Canada’s Immigration Department. Canada processed 4.8 million immigration applications till the end of November this year. It is nearly twice the 2.5 million immigration applications which were processed during the same period last year, according to the Immigration Department. There has been progress in reducing the backlogs of applications this year, said Sean Fraser-Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship of Canada. IRCC (Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada) has reduced its overall inventory by nearly half a million applications, since August. The bar is being set up high for…

To control the liquor business in Delhi, K Kavitha has paid a Rs 100 crore bribe to Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP. K. Kavitha, a member of Bharat Rashtra Samithi and the daughter of Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, is said to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Delhi Liquor Scam. The other two beneficiaries are said to be Aurobindo Pharma’s Sharat Chandra Reddy and Lok Sabha MP Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy. This is officially alleged by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in its charge sheet. According to the investigations done and the statements recorded by various persons involved in the scam, the ED…

A law student dies by suicide at a private college in Bangalore. Bangalore: On Monday, 19th of December around 11:55 am, a 25-year-old Bengaluru student committed suicide by jumping off from the seventh floor of the Bangalore Institute of Technology (BIT), in South Bengaluru. She was a first-year law student at Visveswarapura College of Law in VV Puram. It is suspected that she was upset as her wedding was called off after the engagement. The deceased has been identified as Vani C. She was a resident of Banashankari, who was pursuing a Bachelor of Legislative Law (LLB) at VV Puram…

Several accidents took place recently due to poor visibility caused by dense fog. Lucknow: Three people including a bus driver and two passengers died and around nine people were injured in a road accident caused by heavy fog on the Agra Lucknow highway Monday. The accident took place due to the collision of a roadway bus and a high-speeding truck. The injured passengers were taken to the Safai Medical College Hospital in Etawah and the people who were in stable condition were sent back to their respective destinations. District Magistrate, Dinesh Chandra Singh informed that the Bus was going to…