Tamil Nadu: Ooty professor raises awareness about Ayushman Bharat cards

IANS | April 27, 2025 6:50 PM

Ooty (Tamil Nadu), April 27 (IANS) While Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) has become a cornerstone of Modi government's commitment to achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC), the scheme has motivated many ‘volunteers’ to spread awareness about the gamechanger scheme among the masses, particularly those who have remained outside the ambit of it.

Lynched for belief: The systemic persecution of Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan (IANS Analysis)

IANS | April 27, 2025 4:21 PM

New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) On April 18 this year, a 47-year-old car workshop owner was brutally killed with sticks and bricks as a mob of hundreds stormed his place of worship, while numerous others had to be rescued by police in the city of Karachi, Pakistan. This horrific incident, which should provoke national outrage and deep sorrow, failed to elicit a strong response from civil society or a decisive intervention from the state.

'Shielding terror', BJP slams Mani Shankar Aiyar's partition remarks

IANS | April 27, 2025 3:23 PM

New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday strongly criticised senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar for his remarks linking the recent terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam to the “unresolved questions of Partition”. The BJP accused Aiyar and the Congress party of shielding terrorists and continuing their appeasement politics.