Privacy is a fundamental right guaranteed by the constitution, nine Supreme Court judges said today in a unanimous verdict that will affect every citizen. The judges said privacy comes under the Right To Life and Liberty, overruling the governments arguments. Petitioners had challenged the government’s Aadhaar biometric programme, which has recorded the fingerprints and iris scans of more than one billion Indians. Here are 10 ways today’s judgement on right […]

The Reserve Bank will launch Rs 200 banknotes on Friday, increasing the availability of lower denomination currency in the system. The bright yellow coloured notes will hit the market just a day after the announcement by finance minister Arun Jaitley that the government has given go-ahead to the RBI to issue the new currency bill. Here are 17 features of the new Rs 200, according to the RBI: 1. See […]

The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce today its judgement on the vexatious issue whether the right to privacy can be held as a fundamental right under the Constitution. A nine-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice JS Khehar had on August 2 reserved its verdict after hearing marathon arguments for six days over a period of three weeks, during which submissions were advanced in favour and against the inclusion of […]

India’s most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim remains the only “Indian national” on an updated list of financial sanctions released by the UK which also listed 21 aliases for the underworld don. The mafia boss appears on the UK Treasury department’s ‘Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets in the UK’ updated on Monday, with three recorded addresses in Pakistan, where he is reportedly based. “Kaskar Dawood Ibrahim” is recorded to have […]

Blue whale challenge is described as a game, but it is far from a game. Young teens who accept the challenge are encouraged to complete a series of tasks which gets more and more sinister and at the end of the game the player is urged to take their own life in order to “win.” The Blue Whale suicide game goes by many names including ‘A Silent House,’ ‘A Sea […]

With over 35,000 attendees, at the Akshar Pavilion TASTE OF INDIA food festival, made vendors drive back to their restaurant to provide more food! In collaboration with Young Canadian Alliance, School of Flavours celebrated CANADA 150 on August 5, 2017 at Nathan Phillips Square, in the heart of downtown Toronto. A day long family-friendly and a FREE outdoor event with more than 50 vendors attracted never-ending line-ups of multicultural audiences […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday addressed the nation on the occasion of 71st Independence Day at the flag hoisting ceremony at Red Fort. Addressing the nation for the fourth time since he took office in 2014, the prime minister called upon the citizens to perform their duties towards the nation and co-operate to work towards a common goal of peace, harmony and development in the country. Here are the […]

It was a Hindi film song that moved India’s first Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru to tears. Ay Mere Watan Ke Logon, sung by Lata Mangeshkar at an event, led to her being summoned by the PM. Worried that she had made a mistake, she went there only to see him with tears in his eyes. “At first I was nervous, thinking I have committed some mistake. But when I […]

India gained independence from the British Raj after 200 years of colonial rule. On 15 August 1947, the UK Parliament passed the Indian Independence Act 1947 transferring legislative sovereignty to the Indian Constituent Assembly. And Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India, delivered his famous “Tryst with Destiny” speech in The Parliament, on the eve of India’s Independence, towards midnight on 15 August 1947. But while we read […]

Urging people to become partners in the development process of the country, President Ram Nath Kovind said that there should partnership between citizens and the government. In his maiden address to the nation on the eve of Independence Day, President Kovind said that people and the government should work with unity and purpose to ensure that the benefits of government policies reach all sections of society. “Our nation has been […]