On Tuesday, an Indian student was killed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv, the capital of war-torn Ukraine, according to an official spokeswoman for the Ministry of External Affairs. The student was identified as Naveen from Karnataka's Haveri. With profound sorrow we confirm that an Indian student lost his life in shelling in Kharkiv this morning. The Ministry is in touch with his family. We convey our deepest condolences to the family Bagchi wrote. Daily News, India News, India Podcast, All India Podcast, India News Today Find out more about us at tatvabodhini.com/about  Follow us:&n ..read more

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow is ready to talk if the Ukrainian army lays down arms. Hong Kong's government invoked emergency powers on Thursday to allow doctors and nurses from the Chinese mainland to work in the territory to help combat a spiraling coronavirus outbreak.  The hearing for the hijab case is underway in the Karnataka High Court. Counsel for Petitioners YH Muchhala has argued that a headscarf is a piece of cloth covering the head, not the face, adding that it should be permitted to use. Daily News, India News, India Podcast, All India Podcast, India N ..read more

The Indian Air Force is on standby for any possible evacuations of stranded Indians from war-hit Ukraine, a senior official said on Thursday. Russian forces entered Ukraine on Thursday. Russia has already destroyed Ukraine's air defense with strategic explosions at airports and runways across the country. The Indian Air Force has, however, said that it was ready to deploy planes for rescue missions if need be. Meanwhile, the Ministry of External Affairs has said that it is working to bring back about 18,000 Indians from Ukraine. Russia launched the offensive against Ukraine on Thursday morning ..read more

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a petition seeking cancellation of offline examinations for class 10th and 12th to be conducted by all state boards, the Central Board of Secondary Education, the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education, and the National Institute of Open Schooling.  Dismissing the plea, the apex court said such petitions were misleading and give false hope to students. The plea had sought directions to the CBSE and other education boards, which have proposed to hold board examinations for classes 10 and 12 in offline mode, to devise alternate modes of assessment ..read more

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has ordered the blocking of apps, websites, and social media accounts linked to the banned organization Sikhs For Justice. The channel in question is foreign-based Punjab Politics TV, which the government says has links to SFJ. According to an official statement, the channel attempted to use online media to disturb public order during the ongoing Assembly elections in 5 states, based on intelligence inputs. However, now the central government is now vigilant and said that it will ensure securing the overall information environment in India and thwar ..read more

Young Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa stunned World Number 1, Magnus Carlsen, in the eighth round of the Airthings Masters, an online rapid chess tournament. Praggnanandhaa won with black pieces in 39 moves in a Tarrasch variation game early on Monday to halt Carlsen’s run of three straight wins. Daily News, India News, India Podcast, All India Podcast, India News Today Find out more about us at tatvabodhini.com/about  Follow us:  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOLhD7xOsHFILCW5XBzxvdw Twitter: Twitter: https://twitter.com/tatvaBodhini_  Instagram: https://www ..read more

The Maharashtra government on Thursday confirmed a bird flu outbreak in the state as poultry birds at a Thane-based farm died after being infected with the avian influenza A virus, and urged people not to panic. According to animal husbandry commissioner Sachindra Pratap Singh, there were approximately 200 poultry birds at the farm in Velhevali in Thane district’s Shahapur tehsil. When a few of the birds died on February 2, 5, and 10, the farm did not initially report the deaths. After it reported the deaths on February 10, samples were collected on February 11 and 13 and assessed at the anima ..read more

Kolkata Knight Riders roped in Shreyas Iyer for a whopping Rupees 12. 25 crores in the recently concluded IPL Auctions and on Wednesday named him as the captain of the team. Iyer was expected to be in huge demand in the mega auction and unsurprisingly, the 27-year-old youngster triggered a bidding war between Delhi Capitals and the Knight Riders before the latter had the last laugh in the auction proceedings. Iyer, who had missed the first part of IPL 2021 in India due to a shoulder injury, had to leave Delhi Capital’s leadership role and the team’s captaincy was handed over to Rishabh Pant, w ..read more

The Ministry of Home Affairs has recommended a ban on 54 Chinese mobile applications, including the popular game Garena Free Fire. Interestingly Garena Free Fire is Singapore-based and the developer is not from China. It game was one of the most downloaded games in India last year and had taken up the space created by PUBG Mobile after it was banned in September 2020. The app was already removed from the Google Play Store and App Store in India, as indianexpress.com had reported Sunday. In 2020, the government had also banned TikTok and other popular short video apps from China. Daily News ..read more

The interest of students in Karnataka will be served better if they return to classes rather than raise protests over issues like wearing the hijab and saffron shawls in classrooms, a full bench of the Karnataka High Court has stated in its seven-page interim order on the hijab row which has led to the closure of colleges in the state. The high court on Friday put out the full copy of its order after initially issuing oral orders on Thursday at the end of a hearing for interim relief on the issue regarding whether a ban on Muslim girls wearing the hijab in classrooms in some colleges in the st ..read more