The Cordelia cruise ship, where 66 of them over 2,000 people on board tested positive for coronavirus, has been sent back to Mumbai from Goa with all the passengers after some of the infected persons refused to get admitted to a medical facility in the coastal state, an official from a shipping agency said on …

Amid protests after a botched Army operation in Nagaland‘s Oting, the Centre has declared the entire Nagaland as a “disturbed area” for six more months with effect from December 30 under the AFSPA while terming the state’s condition “disturbed and dangerous”. The move came days after the Union government constituted a high-level committee to examine the possibility of the withdrawal …

Sudha Bharadwaj, lawyer and activist, and one of the accused in Bhima-Koregaon violence case walked out of Mumbai’s Byculla jail after three years in detention. She was arrested under the provisions of UAPA. The Supreme Court had rejected a petition by the National Investigation Agency, challenging a Bombay High Court order on her bail. “We see no reason to interfere …

Nearly 40 per cent of human rights violation cases lodged annually by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in the past three years till October 2021 were from Uttar Pradesh, the data by the Ministry of Home Affairs said. In response to DMK MP M Shanmugam’s question of whether human rights violation cases were on the rise, Minister of State …

The first case of the Omicron variant detected in Maharashtra is a 33-year-old man from Thane district who is a marine engineer by profession. India has so far detected four cases of Omicron. Due to the odd nature of his job he couldn’t get vaccinated while on the ship since April despite his efforts, a Kalyan Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) …

The Ramayan Express, which started with much fanfare, has recently met with controversy due to its staff’s dress code. The Railways on Monday changed the uniforms of its serving staff on board the Ramayan Express after seers from Ujjain objected to the saffron attire of the waiters. Insult to Hindu religion The seers said it was an insult to the …

In a much-needed step towards gender neutrality, a government school in Kerala has introduced gender-neutral uniforms in schools, a concept that was perhaps hitherto unthinkable for students and academics alike. So while a section of the country went up in arms over a teachers’ training manual meant to make the nation’s schools more sensitive towards and inclusive of all genders, …

Thousands of farmers held a massive rally today after the historic repeal of the three controversial farm laws, in a surprise announcement by prime minister Narendra Modi last week. Farmers held a rally in Lucknow to demand that minimum support prices be extended to all produce, not just rice and wheat. The protest movement launched by farmers more than a …

Parvati Arya, Asia’s first women truck driver whose name had also figured in Guinness Book of world records, passed away on Wednesday. She was 75. Parvati hailed from Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh and took the town by storm by becoming a truck driver when venturing out of home alone was a big achievement for women. She secured a driving license …

The UN envoy to Afghanistan said that an affiliate of the Islamic State group has grown and now appears present in nearly all 34 provinces. UN Special Representative Deborah Lyons told the UN Security Council that the Taliban’s response to Islamic State-Khorasan Province’s (ISKP) expansion “appears to rely heavily on extrajudicial detentions and killings” of suspected ISKP fighters. “This is …