The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the ‘PM-eBus Sewa’ scheme under which 10,000 electric buses will be provided to 169 cities under the public-private partnership (PPP) model.
Globally, around 4 billion people, or half the world’s population, experience water stress for at least one month annually, a number projected to rise to nearly 60% by 2050.
In a foreword to the book, CJI Chandrachud said, “The handbook aims to assist judges and the legal community in identifying, understanding and combating stereotypes about women.”
The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) is officially renamed the Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library (PMML) Society effective from Monday.
The Haryana sports department suspended a woman athletic coach who accused a state minister and ex-captain of the Indian hockey team of sexual misconduct.
Search and rescue operations are ongoing to locate survivors and retrieve bodies from the wreckage of collapsed homes scattered across various areas.
The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Uttar Pradesh Police to file a comprehensive affidavit on the progress of investigation in 183 encounters that have taken place in the state since 2017.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court had halted the demolition of “illegally-constructed” buildings in Muslim-dominated Nuh, questioning whether a particular community was targeted after communal violence broke out.
“AI will put even more pressure on fact-checkers, journalists, and the few resources they have to do their work. So media literacy will rise to the forefront as an important approach to address misinformation” says Alex Mahadevan, Director of MediaWise on the importance of media literacy.
On Wednesday, a large gathering of khaps, farmer unions, and religious leaders from Haryana held a ‘Mahapanchayat’ in Hisar to condemn the violence and called for maintaining peace and harmony in the region.
