The Election Commission of India (ECI) is considering extending the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists being carried out in Bihar across the country. The Commission has convened a meeting of Chief Electoral Officers of all states in Delhi on September 10, which will be attended by Election Commissioners and senior officials of all states, including Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. The SIR campaign in Bihar has taken the form of a political controversy. Opposition parties including RJD, Congress, CPI, CPM, Trinamool Congress and Samajwadi Party have objected to the deletion of names of a large number of voters…
Author: India Aware
The Indian men’s hockey team led by Harmanpreet Singh has regained the Asia Cup championship after 8 years. In the final match, India defeated defending champion South Korea by a margin of 4-1. With this remarkable achievement, India has won the Asia Cup trophy for the fourth time and has also qualified for the FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup to be held in Netherlands and Belgium in 2026. Reacting after the victory, captain Harmanpreet Singh said, “This was our primary goal, for which we were practicing for a long time. Finally we have achieved it. Now our next goal is…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has removed the epidemic of Pox from the category of international health emergency. WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has taken this decision accepting the recommendation of the Emergency Committee. Dr Tedros said, “On Friday, the Committee met again and recommended that the current situation is no longer a public health emergency of international concern, which I accepted.” This decision has been taken based on the continued decline in cases and mortality in affected countries such as Congo, Burundi, Sierra Leone and Uganda. However, WHO has clarified that the end of the emergency does not…
The central government has recently made extensive amendments in the GST rates, which will provide significant benefits to the agriculture sector, cooperatives and rural enterprises. This decision will directly benefit about 10 crore dairy farmers of the country. Taxes on milk products have been reduced significantly. Branded and unbranded milk and cheese have been made completely tax-free. GST on butter, ghee and other milk products has been reduced from 12% to 5%. Similarly, tax on metal canisters used for transporting milk has also been reduced from 12% to 5%. Significant relief has also been provided to the food processing sector.…
Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Sunday announced his resignation as president of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). 68-year-old Ishiba took this decision accepting responsibility for the party’s defeat in the recent elections. “I have decided to resign as LDP president. I have instructed Secretary-General Moriyama to initiate the presidential election process,” Ishiba said in a televised press conference. Ishiba has been facing calls for his resignation since he took office as prime minister in October 2023. He warned that his resignation could plunge Japan into political uncertainty, especially as the country faces serious challenges such as US tariffs, inflation,…
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Donald Trump has made an important claim. According to Trump, India had offered zero tariff to the US, but now this opportunity is over. This statement not only puts a question mark on India-US relations, but it is also being seen in the context of India’s growing relations with Russia. The US President and his senior officials are constantly making controversial and unsubstantiated claims regarding India. In this sequence, Trump made another statement on social media on Monday. He said that India has now proposed to reduce…
According to the Irrigation Department, about 3,29,313 cusecs of water was released from Hathinikund Barrage on Tuesday morning. This water is expected to reach Delhi, Ghaziabad and Gautam Buddha Nagar in the next 24-30 hours. Officials estimate that the water level of Yamuna may rise much above normal by the evening of 2 September. The administration has urged the citizens living in flood-affected areas to immediately move to safer places. Especially the families living on the river banks and low-lying areas may face greater risk. The administration’s aim is to ensure protection from loss of life, property and animals. Ghaziabad…
The imposition of 50 percent tariff on Indian exports by the US has created serious challenges in the industrial centres of Uttar Pradesh, namely Noida, Kanpur and Varanasi. Especially the textile, leather, handicraft and Banarasi saree industries are being directly affected by this. Noida exports garments worth about Rs 50,000 crore annually, of which Rs 13,000 crore is exported to the US. According to Lalit Thukral, president of the Apparel Export Cluster, the industry is facing an existential crisis as the tariff has increased from 12% earlier to 50% now. They have demanded 15-20% relief, interest-free loans and financial support…
Jalalabad in Shahjahanpur district of Uttar Pradesh has been officially renamed as “Parshurampuri”. The proposal for this name change has been approved by the Union Home Ministry. The Uttar Pradesh government had sent an application for name change to the Ministry of Home Affairs on 27 June 2025, to which the Government of India has expressed “no objection”. In the letter number SM/28/35/2025, dated 14.08.2025 received from the Ministry of Science and Technology, the spelling of the new name has been proposed in Devanagari and Roman scripts. The Home Ministry letter directed the Uttar Pradesh government to issue necessary gazette…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived at the bilateral meeting venue in the same vehicle after the conclusion of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit. Prime Minister Modi shared information about this meeting on the social media platform X. In his message, Prime Minister Modi mentioned, “After the SCO Summit, President Putin and I went together to the bilateral meeting venue. Talks with him are always informative.” This meeting is a symbol of strong diplomatic relations between India and Russia. Earlier, pictures of informal talks between PM Modi, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Putin…