Deepawali

Alert!: Banks will be closed for 21 days in October

Newsbred Staff - October 1, 2022

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has released the list of bank holidays for the month of October. Banks will remain closed for a total of...

Has the Hindu push back begun? Is sense of persecution gaining ground?

Ashish Shukla - November 9, 2021

Has the Hindu push back begun? Outcry, so far, were putting a lid on provocative ads and libellous free-to-air movies. Now the gathering storm is...

Kejri govt spent Rs 940 cr on pollution ads: Little to show any action on pollution itself!

Newsbred Staff - November 8, 2021

At a time when Delhi’s pollution levels have triggered a public health emergency, the Arvind Kejriwal government is sitting on pollution ads worth hundreds...

Firecrackers ban: If Supreme Court and States could answer a few queries citizens have on mind

Ashish Shukla - November 1, 2021

India’s judiciary and governments would like the citizens to believe that firecrackers during Deepawali is hazardous enough to be banned. Supreme Court is the ringleader...

Umar Khan, district collector, imposes Section 144 on Deepawali in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan

Newsbred Staff - October 31, 2021

On the order of district collector Umar Deen Khan (image), Section 144 has been imposed in the Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan for the upcoming...

Kejri, Kejri, Kejri: When would your chicanery stop?

Ashish Shukla - August 27, 2021

Indian Express today has a screaming four-column headline: “Proud to be city with most CCTVs, better than London and New York: Kejriwal”. Earlier this...

Kanwar Yatra, Bakrid and now Onam: Supreme Court is in a mess of its own making

Ashish Shukla - July 28, 2021

It could have been Justice RF Nariman. Or it could be Justice BR Gavai. Let’s say it was a Supreme Court bench. On July...

PM: Centre takes over vaccine supply for 18+ to States again; Free ration for 80 crores till Deeepawali

Newsbred Staff - June 7, 2021

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi today announced that as it happened before May 1, 2021 thus again from June 21, 2021 Centre would provide...

The State can’t enforce firecrackers ban on Deepawali. Period

Ashish Shukla - November 15, 2020

Firecrackers were burst with vengeance not just in Delhi NCR last night. The story is true everywhere. People have drawn a line in the...

A Deepawali like none in Lord Rama’s abode as Yogi arrives in Ayodhya

Newsbred Staff - November 13, 2020

This Deepawali is like none in last 500 years as Lord Rama, in his epic fight of Good over Evil (Ravana), would soon have...

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