The CBI has arrested the Principal Chief Material Manager, Chittranjan Locomotive Works, Railways, West Bengal, and five others, including directors of a private company based in Chandigarh, in an alleged bribery case.
Nirmala Sitharaman, while replying to the discussion on Budget, dropped her tough composure when CPI(M) MP John Brittas took a dig at his own Left colleague from Kerala, CPI leader Binoy Viswam.
New Delhi, Feb 10: The government on Thursday issued revised guidelines for international arrivals, doing away with the mandatory seven-day home quarantine for those arriving from overseas and the...
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
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
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
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
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.
INDIA may be on course to introduce e-passports, with embedded microchips and futuristic technology, to improve security and make immigration clearance a breeze at border posts worldwide, but some basic flaws at the ground level need a quick resolution. The detection of as many as 200 passports made
Asking the Uttar Pradesh Government to withdraw the recovery notices issued to the alleged anti-CAA protesters, the Supreme Court on Friday warned that it would quash the proceedings for being in violation of the law.
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.
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.
The first half of the Budget session concluded today with the Lok Sabha posting 121 per cent productivity and the Rajya Sabha sitting for half an hour more than its scheduled sitting time. The session commenced on January 31.
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.
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.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the party would secure a comfortable majority in the February 14 Goa elections and the question of alliance would not arise.
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.
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.
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.
