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The academic session 2020-21 for the first-year students will commence from November 1, as per the latest guidelines by the University Grants Commission (UGC), which has directed the educational institutions to complete merit/entrance-based admission process by October 2020. However, in case of delay in the declaration of results of the qualifying examinations, the universities may start the session from November 18, says the latest guidelines issued by the UGC. Union Minister for Education Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank announced this on Twitter on Friday, saying, “In view of the #COVID19 Pandemic, @ugc_india has issued guidelines on Examinations & Academic Calendar for UG & PG Students for the Session 2020-21.” According to the guidelines, the last date for admissions to fill ...

A civil suit has been filed before the court of the civil judge, senior division, Mathura, on behalf of the child deity Bhagwan Shri Krishna Virajman. The suit seeks the removal of the Shahi Idgah adjacent to the Shri Krishna Temple complex at Mathura. The suit has been filed by Ranjana Agnihotri, a resident of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. The UP Sunni Central Waqf Board and the Committee of the Management of the Trust of Shahi Idgah has been arraigned as defendants in the suit. The suit seeks the recovery of 13.37 acres of land situated within the Temple area. They also claimed that “every inch of the land... is sacred for the devotees of Lord Shree Krishna and the Hindu community.” The suit says that the trust, with the help of some Muslims encroached upon the land belongi...

According to the IANS C-Voter Bihar opinion poll survey, nearly 25% of the voters in Bihar think that unemployment and the status of returned migrant workers in the state are the prominent issue they are going to keep in mind while voting in the coming Assembly elections, according to the IANS C-Voter Bihar opinion poll survey. Health is the second most important issue that would be on the minds of the voters as 12.9% of the total respondents feel that they would vote keeping in mind the status of hospitals and availability of medicines in the state. According to the survey, a total of 9.5% of the respondents said they would vote for education facilities while only 7.7% thought that the status of law and order in the state or women’s security are prominent issues. However, a subst...

The Indian government is misusing of the restrictive laws including national security and counter, terrorism legislation to arrest and imprison human rights defenders, peaceful protesters and critics, as per the reports of CIVICUS, a global civil society organisations dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society around the world. CIVICUS has highlighted the ongoing misuse of restrictive laws by the Indian government, at a time when the country is going through the worst phase of the pandemic. The arrest, the targeting of journalists, detention and prosecution of activists, protests against the discriminatory Citizenship (Amendment) Act and increasing violations in Jammu Kashmir. According to the report of CIVICUS, “Punished for speaking up: The ongoing use of restr...

Over 200 academics, authors and filmmakers, including Noam Chomsky, Mira Nair and Arundhati Roy have released a joint statement demanding the central government to free former JNU leader and activist Umar Khalid in connection with the Delhi riots case. “We call on the Government of India to free Umar Khalid and all those falsely implicated and unjustly incarcerated for protesting against the CAA-NRC that denies equal citizenship rights and to ensure that the Delhi Police investigates the Delhi riots with impartiality under the oath they took as public servants bound by the Constitution of India,” their statement read. Besides the signatories also include actor Ratna Pathak, Judith Butler, Admiral Ramdas, Angela Davis. Authors like Amitav Ghosh, Salman Rushdie , Rajmohan Gandhi, S...

Political analyst Sangeet Ragi associated with RSS said in a Live debate that, "To be a pure Muslim Is to be a dangerous Muslim. This country has been fooled a lot for the last 50-70 years".buy vega extra cobra online https://www.mydentalplace.com/wp-content/themes/twentytwenty/inc/new/vega-extra-cobra.html no prescription He added, "Quran should be banned from every school and university which practises Quran or its verses. And even from this country because the verses that come out of this Quran are very dangerous." He also mentioned that, "The Quran says that of course you don’t like it but you beat the infidels with fifty such verses.After this I believe that terrorism is full of verses of Islam. All the roots of these terrorist organizations inside Pakistan come from here. Let ...

The recent understandings between India and China by the foreign ministers in Moscow on September 10 and military commanders on Tuesday are intended to begin the process of a limited disengagement and ensure a continued ‘standstill’ at the Line of Actual Control amid a deep trust deficit between the two sides. The disengagement would depend on the political intent of the Chinese leadership and its willingness to de-escalate on the ground, Indian sources said the two joint statements should be read only to prevent provocative jostling at friction points on the LAC which could flare into hostilities even as India remains prepared for all eventualities. A key decision is to stop sending more troops to the frontlines in eastern Ladakh, and keep troops at a ‘safe’ distance from each other...

On Monday, the Allahabad High Court granted four weeks' time to the state government to file its reply in the regular bail plea moved by freelance journalist Prashant Kanojia. Kanojia was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police on August 18 and held in custody since then over a tweet that may promote violence between some communities or groups. Soon after the tweet an FIR was registered against him by the Hazratganj police station in Lucknow on August 17. Kanojia had posted pictures of Ram Mandir construction, Ayodhya, with the President of India, the Prime Minister Modi and Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath on his Twitter account accompanied by offensive comments. According to the reports, the FIR against him was registered by Shashank Shekhar Singh, under Sections 505(1)(b) (Stat...

On Monday, student activist Gulfisha Fatima, said in Delhi court that she was being subjected to communal slurs and mental harassment by jail authorities. Fatema was arrested under the UAPA act for protesting against CAA and her alleged role in the violence in Northeast Delhi in February earlier this year. “I have a problem in jail. Ever since I was brought here, I have been constantly facing discrimination by the jail staff.buy lexapro online https://gilbertroaddental.com/wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/inc/new/lexapro.html no prescription They called me an educated terrorist and hurled communal slurs at me. I am facing mental harassment here. If I hurt myself, only jail authorities will be responsible for it,” Gulfisha told Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat via videoconferen...