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After making a U-turn on banning single-use plastics, the government has announced that single-use plastics will not be allowed on the premises of historical monuments or within 100 metres of them. “Single-use plastics will not be allowed inside monuments and within 100 metres of them,” tourism minister Prahlad Patel said at the launch of tourism …

A couple in Mumbai is winning a lot of praises on social media after their act of kindness and care for others went viral. The incident was narrated by a Facebook user called Deepali Bhatia. According to her, on the early morning of Wednesday, while hunting for good food she landed on a small stall right outside Kandivali station.  According …

Former BJP MP and veteran actor Paresh Rawal, known as much for his comedy as rants on social media, has tendered an apology to Dr Kafeel Khan, who has been recently cleared of all the charges in Gurakhpur hospital tragedy.  His apology comes a week after suspended pediatrician of Gorakhpur’s BRD Medical College was absolved of prominent charges related to …

In a tragic incident, an Indian-American Sikh police officer died after being shot multiple times from behind in a “ruthless, cold-blooded way” during a traffic stop in the US state of Texas, a senior official said. Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal, Harris County Sheriff’s deputy, was shot while conducting a traffic stop, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said. Dhaliwal, who was in his early …

BJP motormouth MLA Giriraj Singh equated expanding population to “second stage cancer” and called for strict legislation to control it. The MLA said that if the burgeoning population isn’t controlled it will go into the fourth stage and become incurable. Singh, a hardline leader of the BJP, was speaking at a seminar on population control. He said it is important …

North Delhi Municipal Commissioner Varsha Joshi responded to a young girl on micro-blogging site Twitter highlighting how prevalent is sexism in workplaces.  While responding to a complaint of a user who sent out a picture of a street she claimed was difficult for any female to pass, Joshi wrote:  “While this could indeed be a matter for the police, its …

Forest fires are happening since time immemorial. Initially, there were natural reasons. Then came human beings and started burning the oxygen source of the planet. The number of forest fires and the magnitude of them have been increasing over the years across the world.  Several reasons including deforestation, global warming among others are being blamed for this situation that has …

Army officer Ponung Doming has become the first woman from the state of Arunachal Pradesh to be made a Lieutenant Colonel in the Indian Army. Chief Minister Pema Khandu took to Twitter to congratulate Doming. “A proud moment for all of us … Major #PonungDoming creates history. She is first woman Army officer from #Arunachal to be elevated to the …

With an aim to change the lives of those who have nothing, a shopkeeper in Delhi has been running a makeshift school for more than 300 underprivileged children beneath a metro bridge in the Yamuna Bank area for the last over eight years.  Unfortunately, he has not received any assistance neither from the government nor any NGOs but that hasn’t …

Human-animal conflict is on the rise as commercialisation and urbanisation is expanding. Animals enter residential areas adjoining forests and this often results in loss of livestock and crops. In order to check human-animal conflict, the Uttarakhand government has decided to carry out bio-fencing by growing various species of plants in those areas. A report by The Indian Express says that officials …