1,62,800 prisoners (34.01 %) belonged to the OBC category. Of the total 4,78,600 prison inmates in the country, 3,15,409 or 65.90 % belong to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and the Other Backward Class categories, according to government data presented in Parliament on Wednesday.The prison statistics presented by Minister of State for Home Affairs G. Kishan Reddy were based on a compilation of data by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) updated till December 31, 2019.Rajya Sabha member Syed Nasir Hussain had sought to know if the majority of prisoners in the country’s jails are Dalits and Muslims, a category-wise…
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen defended the EU’s overall approach of trying to beat the pandemic with a unified vaccine plan for its 27 nations, even if she admitted mistakes to quickly obtain sufficient vaccines. As the European Union surpassed the toll of 5,00,000 people lost to the virus, the EU Commission chief said on Wednesday that the bloc’s much-criticised vaccine rollout could be partly blamed on the EU being over-optimistic, over-confident and plainly “late.” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen defended the EU’s overall approach of trying to beat the pandemic with a unified vaccine plan…
The district administration has issued an alert against an influx of refugees from Myanmar in the wake of the coup, say officials Myanmar-based armed insurgent group Chin National Army (CNA) has sought asylum for their families in India in the wake of the military coup in the neighbouring country, an official in Mizoram said on Wednesday.The CNA, the armed wing of the Chin National Front (CNF), has asked for asylum for 40 families, Mizoram’s Champhai district deputy commissioner Maria C.T. Zuali told PTI.”The CNA has communicated the matter to the village council president of Farkawn, who later informed the Champhai…
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blasts, which were all caused by so-called sticky bombs, explosive devices attached to vehicles that are remotely detonated or set off by timers. A chain of bomb explosions targeting Kabul police on Wednesday killed a district police chief and his bodyguard and also wounded five people, officials said.No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blasts, which were all caused by so-called sticky bombs, explosive devices attached to vehicles that are remotely detonated or set off by timers.The largest of the attacks struck a police car in a western Kabul neighbourhood; the force of…
The Indian-Japanese pair bowed out after a close opening-round defeat to Ji Sung Nam and Min-Kyu Song India endured a second successive disappointing result at the Australian Open with Rohan Bopanna and Ben McLachlan bowing out after a close opening-round defeat to Ji Sung Nam and Min-Kyu Song in the men’s doubles event, here on Wednesday. Bopanna and his Japanese partner lost 4-6 6-7(0) to the Korean wild card pair in one hour and 17 minutes. Not having enough court time due to hard quarantine seemed to have an effect on Bopanna’s sharpness. McLachlan, on his part, struggled to negotiate…
“We will continue to advocate for the right of free expression,” says micro-blogging platform Twitter on Wednesday said it had withheld some accounts identified in the blocking orders given by the government. However, no action has been taken against accounts of news media entities, journalists, activists and politicians; the withheld accounts continue to be available outside India. In a blog post, the micro-blogging platform said it took a range of enforcement measures, including permanent suspension in certain cases, against more than 500 accounts escalated across all Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) orders for clear violations of Twitter rules.“We took…
The craft, called Amal (Arabic for Hope) is circling the red planet, where it will gather data on Mars’ atmosphere. A spacecraft from the United Arab Emirates swung into orbit around Mars on Tuesday in a triumph for the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission. Ground controllers at the UAE’s space center in Dubai rose to their feet and broke into applause when word came that the craft, called Amal, Arabic for Hope, had reached the end of its seven-month, 300-million-mile journey and had begun circling the red planet, where it will gather data on Mars’ atmosphere.The orbiter fired its main…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to respond to the Lok Sabha debate Motion of Thanks to the President’s address today. Mr. Modi had responded to the discussion in the Rajya Sabha on Monday.The Lower House has been witnessing disruptions on the issue of the three farm laws that farmers have been protesting against.Rajya Sabha passed the Ports Bill, and for the first time in this session division was allowed.Here are the updates:Lok Sabha | 5.03 p.m.”For any modern society, change is important. We have seen protests and agitations in the past, like Raja Ram Mohun Roy, Dr Ambedkar all…
India and China agreed to push for an early disengagement of troops and resolved to continue “effective efforts” to stabilise and control the situation in eastern Ladakh. The United States is closely monitoring the situation along the India-China border, a senior official said on Tuesday and expressed concerns over Beijing’s pattern of ongoing attempts to intimidate its neighbours.“We are closely monitoring the situation. We note the ongoing talks between the governments of India and China, and we continue to support direct dialogue and a peaceful resolution of those border disputes,” State Department Spokesperson Ned Price told reporters at his daily…
Despite his advanced age, the suspect is considered fit enough to stand trial. German prosecutors have charged a 100-year-old man with 3,518 counts of being an accessory to murder on allegations he served during World War II as a Nazi SS guard at a concentration camp on the outskirts of Berlin, authorities said on Tuesday.The man is alleged to have worked at the Sachsenhausen camp between 1942 and 1945 as an enlisted member of the Nazi Party’s paramilitary wing, said Cyrill Klement, who led the investigation of the centenarian for the Neuruppin prosecutors’ office.The man’s name wasn’t released in line…