- Show statesmanship, not brinkmanship, SC tells lawmakers
Show statesmanship, not brinkmanship, SC tells lawmakers
- CM common factor between brother, legislator
With just over a week left for polling, an intriguing political battle is unfolding in the Bassi Pathana Assembly segment. The din symbolic with campaigning is missing here as the winds of change seem to be sweeping through. This reserved Assembly segment is perhaps the only constituency in the stat
- Cop killed in militant attack in J&K
A policeman was killed and four others wounded in a militant attack in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Friday. Militants hurled a grenade upon a joint team of the police and the BSF at Nishat Park crossing in Bandipora, resulting in injuries to five cops, the police said. The attack took
- Flip - flop: Congress MLA Laddi back with BJP
Balwinder Singh Laddi, Congress MLA from Sri Hargobindpur, rejoined the BJP in the presence of party general secretary Tarun Chug here today.
- Quad takes up Ukraine, Indo - Pacific ?coercion?
Russia’s role in the Ukraine crisis figured for the first time at the Quad foreign ministers’ meeting held in Melbourne on Friday. Barring External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, the other three ministers prominently mentioned this issue at a post-meeting media briefing though the joint
- PM Modi claims BJP win in Phase - 1; beginning of fall, says Akhilesh Yadav
A day after Phase-1 polling, both the BJP and SP-RLD claimed big gains in western Uttar Pradesh. While PM Narendra Modi claimed the BJP would “win with record numbers”, an equally confident SP chief Akhilesh Yadav declared it was the “beginning of the elimination” of the saff
- Kejriwal?s wife, daughter strike a chord in Dhuri
The rather elusive family members of Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal — wife Sunita Kejriwal and daughter Harshita Kejriwal — on Friday campaigned in support of party’s CM candidate Bhagwant Mann, contesting from this rural constituency.
- Trinamool Congress urges President to remove West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar
The Trinamool Congress on Friday took its ongoing fight with the West Bengal Governor to a new level with the party’s chief whip in the Rajya Sabha submitting a notice for a substantive motion urging the President to recall Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar.
- Supreme Court rejects PIL on common curriculum
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a PIL challenging certain provisions of the Right to Education Act, 2009, that excluded madrassas and vedic pathshalas from its ambit.
- 13.92 lakh new cancer cases in 2020: Govt
Cancer incidence and cancer mortality in India rose consistently over the past three years with all states and UTs in the north reporting a rise in cancer deaths over time.
- India set for biggest naval exercise at Visakhapatnam
In what will be a show of diplomatic heft, India will be hosting the largest naval exercise involving more than 45 countries.
- Hijab row: Supreme Court says will list matter at appropriate time
The Supreme Court on Friday refused to intervene in the Karnataka hijab controversy even as it asserted that it will protect the constitutional rights of everyone and will take up the matter at the appropriate time.
- Nirmala Sitharaman: GDP to grow at 9.2%, no question of recession
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the Budget was forward-looking and would bring stability to the economy. She claimed there was no question of a slowdown or recession, as she cited an estimated 9.2 per cent GDP growth in the current fiscal year.
- Haryana quota law: Supreme Court seeks to enlarge scope of hearing
Seeking to enlarge the scope of hearing on a Haryana law providing for 75 per cent quota to local people in private sector jobs, the Supreme Court on Friday asked the Solicitor General if it should hear all such matters pending in various high courts together.
- J&K: Delimitation panel may get 2 - month extension
The panel assigned the task of redrawing the Assembly constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir is expected to get a two-month extension to complete its job, government sources said.
- Sebi bars Anil Ambani from securities market
New Delhi: Sebi on Friday restrained Reliance Home Finance Ltd, industrialist Anil Ambani and three others from the securities market for allegedly siphoning funds from the company. PTI
- Delhi model can?t work in Punjab
If the Delhi model is implemented in Punjab, our state will be set on the path of ruin. Being a big city, Delhi’s requirements are different from Punjab’s. We don’t have big industrial units here. — Parkash Singh Badal, Former CM
- 'Zero Sum budget', Rahul Gandhi slams Modi government
'Zero Sum budget', Rahul Gandhi slams Modi government
- 2 unattended bags cause alarm in Delhi
2 unattended bags cause alarm in Delhi
- Congress releases 4th list of 61 candidates for UP polls
Congress releases 4th list of 61 candidates for UP polls
- Withdraw recovery notices against anti - CAA protestors or we will quash it: SC to UP govt
The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday drew flak from the Supreme Court for acting on the recovery notices issued to the alleged anti-CAA protestors in December 2019 and gave one final opportunity to it to withdraw the proceedings and warned that it will quash the proceedings for being in violation