Assam Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday that if the state government is bearing the cost of teaching the Quran in madrassas, then Bible and Bhagavad Gita should also be taught by the government. Sarma said, "In my opinion, teaching 'Quran' can't happen at the cost of government money, if we have to do so then we should also teach both the Bible and Bhagavad Gita. So, we want to bring uniformity and stop this practice."
Civic-run Hindu Rao Hospital, whose resident doctors are currently agitating over due salaries, was on Tuesday removed from the list of COVID-19 facilities by the Delhi government. North Delhi Mayor Jai Prakash said, the general OPD services resumed at the facility and nearly "160 patients visited". The Delhi government's health department in an order issued on Tuesday said, in view of the surge in COVID-19 cases then, Bara Hindu Rao Hospital was declared as a designated hospital on June 14.
Three cases of suspected coronavirus reinfection -- two in Mumbai and one in Ahmedabad -- have been "described" in India, the country's apex medical research body said on Tuesday. Director-General Balram Bhargava said the Indian Council of Medical Research had decided upon a cutoff of 100 days for reinfection if it occurs as, according to some studies, antibodies were also assumed to have a life of four months.
At least 11 people have died in Telangana following incessant rains that lashed several parts of the state, leading to waterlogging on roads and inundation of some low-lying areas. Nine persons died when a boundary wall collapsed in Mohammedia Hills in Bandlaguda due to heavy the rains in the past two days, Hyderabad Lok Sabha MP Asaduddin Owaisi tweeted on Wednesday.
After a gap of more than six months, the tallest statue in the world, the Statue of Unity (SoU), will reopen for public from October 17, an auspicious day when the popular Navratri festival gets underway.
The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday ordered 145 private schools to offer a minimum 20 per cent reduction in fees across the board while directing that non-essential charges for use of facilities not availed of will not be permissible. Guardians of students of the 145 schools, mostly in an around the city, had moved petitions seeking a reduction in school fees since only online classes are being held during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) wants to question the alleged Popular Front of India (PFI) members, who were arrested from Mathura when they were going to meet the Hathras victim's family, in connection with its ongoing money laundering probe into the riots in northeast Delhi in February this year.Republic Day 2024 : As India's 75th Republic Day Parade kicked off in the national capital, a 30-member band contingent and a marching c...
