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Mangalore university issues an advisory making uniforms compulsory and sends back girls in hijab. Meanwhile, Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai said, “According to me, studies should be important for students.”
UP government has passed an order stating a woman’s unwillingness to work before 6 am beyond 7 pm should not be grounds for termination from her job. If the woman worker gives consent to work in night shifts, authorities should provide free transportation, food, and adequate supervision to ensure their safety.
Maneka Gandhi has come in support of IAS officer Sanjeev Khirwar who was given a ‘punishment posting’ to Ladakh following the Dog-walking row. She said Delhi benefitted from Khirwar’s work when he was environment department secretary, adding, “allegations against him are false.”
In Kumpat village in Gujarat, a mob of 150-200 people has pelted stones at a marriage procession, allegedly objecting to the groom belonging to the Other Backward Community (OBC) riding on a mare. Police had to burst tear gas shells to disperse the mob.
The Uttarakhand government has formed a five-member expert committee under retired SC judge Ranjana Prakash to bring in Uniform Civil Code (UCC). Earlier, during the assembly poll campaign, CM Pushkara Singh Dhami had promised to enact UCC in the state.
To address increasing electricity demand and concerns about power cuts, the Government-owned Coal India will import and stock coal. The Power Ministry’s move comes amid the worst power shortage in six years, which the country faced in April.
As per Commerce Ministry data, the US has become India’s top trading partner in 2021-22. The bilateral trade between India and the US stood at $119.42 billion, followed by the trade between India and China at $115.42 billion.
Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. In the meeting that lasted for 80 minutes, President Putin warned that arms supplies to Ukraine by the West would destabilize the situation further.
Health authorities in Mexico have confirmed the country’s first imported Monkeypox case. According to the Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo Lopez-Gatell, a 50-year-old permanent resident of New York, purportedly infected in the Netherlands, is in preventive isolation. The person is said to be stable.
A plane carrying 22 passengers has gone out of radar in Nepal. The Tara Air’s 9 NAET twin-engine aircraft, flying from Pokhara to Jomson in Nepal, lost contact soon after it took off at 9.55 am. The passengers include four Indians and two foreign nationals.
