05 June 2026
New Delhi: The Congress has hit out at the Modi government over rising petrol and diesel prices. The Congress claimed that over Rs 11 lakh crore has been earned from taxes imposed on fuels while the rupee is at a record low of Rs 71 per dollar.
The opposition party said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s policies are sinking India’s economy while finance minister Arun Jaitley was busy writing long-winding blogs to score political points.
New Delhi: In a politically significant demand, the Union home ministry has said that the government plans to collect data on Other Backwards Classes (OBCs) for the first time in the Census 2021. This has been a demand from the OBC leaders for long. It comes ahead of elections in key states later this year and the parliamentary polls next year making it significant.
India has been collecting data on Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) since 1951, when the first census after Independence was conducted, but has not collected data on OBCs. After home minister Rajnath Singh reviewed preparations for Census 2021 on Friday, a home ministry spokesperson said, “It is envisaged to collect data on OBCs for the first time.”
New Delhi: For the cause of reservations of Patels in jobs and education, Patidar leader Hardik Patel’s indefinite fast has entered its 8th as the young leader announced that he had now stopped taking even water.
In a statement, Hardik said that though he has stopped taking food and water, he will continue his fight till he attains victory by walking on the path of Mahatma Gandhi.
Several Gujarat Congress leaders, including Kanu Kalsaria, former state Congress president Arjun Modhwadia and MLA Vikram Madam, today met Hardik and extended their support.
New Delhi: Two Indians – Bharat Vatwani and Sonam Wangchuk – are among six individuals who received this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Award, regarded as the Asian version of the Nobel Prize.
One is a psychiatrist who works for the mentally-ill street persons and another whose initiative to harness science and culture creatively for economic progress improved the lives of Ladakhi youth.
New Delhi: The Law Commission has observed in a consultation paper that berating the country or a particular aspect of it cannot be treated as “sedition” and the charge can only be invoked in cases where the intention is to overthrow the government with violence and illegal means.
The Commission also noted that in order to study revision of section 124 A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) that deals with sedition, it should be taken into consideration that the United Kingdom, which introduced the section in the IPC, abolished the sedition laws ten years ago. The UK did not want to be quoted as an example of using such “draconian” laws, it observed.
