Sources said Birla noted at the meeting that govt had agreed to opposition’s “main demand”. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla appealed to opposition parties Monday to call off their protests in Parliament after parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju conveyed govt’s agreeing to a discussion on student protests and a statement by home minister Amit Shah,…
Boxer Narender Berwal recalled his encounter with a Pakistani opponent at the 2015 World Military Games, where he had defeated him. NEW DELHI: A Pakistani boxer who had “started hating” the name ‘Narendra’ after discovering that his Indian opponent, his coach and India’s PM all shared the name drew laughs as Narendra Modi interacted with…
The Donald Trump administration on Monday published the number of visas it had revoked so far in this administration. The State Department Monday published the exact number of visas revoked in the second term of Donald Trump’s presidency so far, while the crackdown is going on. The US has revoked more than 175,000 visas from…
The Monsoon Session of Parliament has been marred by opposition protests since it began on July 20. NEW DELHI: Govt Monday agreed to a debate in Parliament on the recent student protest and home minister Amit Shah’s statement on the issue, but it failed to break the impasse as Congress insisted that all its demands,…
Rahim’s counsel said HC had recorded a categorical finding that the key witness could not be believed NEW DELHIi: Supreme Court on Monday admitted a petition challenging acquittal of Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim, who is serving a 20-year sentence for sexually assaulting two female disciples, in the 2002 murder of Sirsa-based journalist…
Quote of the day by Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, once observed that passive wishful thinking holds no real value if there was no action put behind it. She stated that she did not believe in people just hoping, insisting that people must work for…
Mukerjee will now succeed Vineet Joshi, who was last month appointed as secretary, Panchayati Raj (File photo) NEW DELHI: In a late-night bureaucratic reshuffle Monday, govt appointed Deepti Gaur Mukerjee, a 1993-batch IAS from the Madhya Pradesh cadre as new higher education secretary. This comes barely three weeks after Naresh Pal Gangwar, a Rajasthan cadre…
Police have arrested the accused, Tariq Ahmad Sofi, employed with wildlife department in Ganderbal. SRINAGAR: J&K police on Monday claimed to have busted a plot by a 51-year-old govt employee to get his former lover’s newlywed husband arrested in a narcotics case. The accused allegedly couriered illegal drugs to the husband in an attempt to…
Nagpur: Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday defended proposed amendments to Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA), alleging that a section of organizations receiving foreign funds had used the money for “anti-national activities” and that the changes were intended to curb such misuse rather than target any particular community.Responding to criticism from Congress, which has…
Police have arrested the accused, Tariq Ahmad Sofi, employed with wildlife department in Ganderbal. SRINAGAR: J&K police’s counter-intelligence wing arrested two individuals on Monday for allegedly disseminating anti-national content, radical narratives, and extremist viewpoints through social media platforms.The arrests followed raids on Saturday across five locations in Baramulla, Bandipora, Anantnag, and Shopian districts, where digital…