Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced free travel arrangements for all students from Madhya Pradesh who are set to appear in the NEET, JEE examinations. The students will be provided free travel arrangements from the block or district headquarters to the examination centre by the government. Students interested in availing this facility will have to register themselves by calling on 181, or through the portal https/mapit.gov.in/covid-19 , by August 31. Mr Chouhan made the announcement on his official Twitter handle on Sunday. Earlier, Chief Ministers of Chhattisgarh and Odisha among others had also directed officials and their party leaders…
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A record surge of 78,761 fresh coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours took India’s Covid tally to 35,42,733, the Union Health Ministry said on Sunday morning. This is the highest single-day surge reported by any country since the beginning of the pandemic. India is the third worst-hit country by the coronavirus pandemic in the world after the United States and Brazil. The country has been recording the highest surge in cases recorded in a single day for the last 26 days. In the last 24 hours, 948 deaths linked to the highly contagious disease were registered, taking the total…
NASA has released stunning pictures of a small section of a supernova captured by the Hubble telescope. The spellbinding picture looks right out of a science fiction movie as it appears as a “light veil draped across the sky” to NASA. The Cygnus supernova blast wave has been located around 2,400 light-years away from our planet. The supernova has a peculiar position in the northern constellation of “Cygnus (the Swan) where it covers an area 36 times larger than the full Moon”. The supernova explosion took place between 10,000 to 20,000 years ago caused by a dying star breaking apart…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday pitched for taking farm education to secondary school level, saying necessary reforms are made during this regard within the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. “There may be a got to take knowledge associated with agriculture and its application to high school level. Efforts are (on) to introduce the Agriculture subject at secondary school level in villages,” Modi said. This will develop agriculture related understanding in students and enable them to offer information about agriculture, its modern farming techniques and marketing, to their relations , he said, adding this may promote agro-entrepreneurship within the country.…
The makers of the blockbuster Kannada movie KGF announced that they had resumed the shooting of the sequel of the pan-India movie that was halted due to coronavirus restrictions. Producer Vijay Kiragandur took to Twitter to inform that they were proceeding with the shoot of KGF-2 and also welcomed actor Prakash Raj, who according to makers will be playing an important character in the movie. Following the revelation by the makers of the KGF-2 that they have cast controversial actor Prakash Raj for their upcoming movie, there has been a massive uproar, especially in Karnataka, opposing Raj’s presence in the…
With the UPSC results declared recently, Zakat Foundation announced that 27 candidates it had supported had been selected for the civil services. The President Dr Syed Zafar Mahmood and the organisation prepares Muslim students for recruitment into various government jobs. The ideological dispositions of the Zakat Foundation considering the fact that a significant section of individuals are gaining entry into government jobs under the influence of their ideology. Their presentation was made at a “Conference on Issues of Indian Muslims and their Solutions” on the 3rd of February last year at the Vidarbha Intellectual Forum in Nagpur. In the presentation,…
https://twitter.com/ExmuslimsOrg/status/1298243899937509376?s=20 Shabir Ally, a Canada-based Islamic scholar and Imam, justifyies ‘marital rape’ in the context of Islam in a recent interview which has gone viral in social media. Although the contentious video titled, ‘The Historical Roots of Female Slavery’ dates back to September 2016, it was recently shared on social media by the Twitter handle named ‘Ex-Muslims of North America.’ In the said video, Shabbir Ally discussed at length about ‘women’s right to consent in marriage’, ‘sex slavery in Islam’, and the implication of religious beliefs in ISIS. https://twitter.com/ExmuslimsOrg/status/1298651553927245825?s=20 There is no ‘consent’ in Islamic marriages, claimed Shabir Ally In…
The CBI is in the process of questioning eyewitnesses to understand what happened in the days leading up to actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death. In the hours leading to his death, Sushant Singh Rajput skipped meals, survived on juices and mostly kept to his room. This is what eyewitnesses have told the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in their initial statements, sources revealed. The agency had summoned Sushant’s flatmate Siddharth Pithani and his staff Neeraj, Keshav and Deepesh Sawant for questioning over the actor’s death in his posh Bandra residence on June 14. All four are being treated as key…
Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman has died of colon cancer at 43, his family has said in a statement. The actor had been battling cancer for four years. “A true fighter, Chadwick persevered through it all, and brought you many of the films you have come to love so much,” his family said in the statement. “From Marshall to Da 5 Bloods, August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and several more- all were filmed during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy. It was the honour of his career to bring King T’Challa to life in Black Panther.” The actor had…
A Congress leader in Uttar Pradesh on Friday said the party should expel Ghulam Nabi Azad who is among 23 signatories to a letter which involved an overhaul of the organisation. Twenty-three Congress leaders wrote to party chief Sonia Gandhi, seeking a lively and full-time party leadership among other organisational changes. “In the CWC meeting, party chief Sonia Gandhi said that she was hurt by his letter but now the difficulty was over. Even then, he talked to the media and posted on Facebook subsequent day,” Naseeb Pathan, who was party MLC between 2004 and 2016, told PTI-Bhasha. “As he…