NEW DELHI: Hours after announcement of the election schedule for J&K, Congress appointed Tariq Hameed Karra at the new state president in place of Vikas Rasool Wani. The party also named Tara Chand and Raman Bhalla as working presidents of J&K Congress.Sources said leaders from the state had recently demanded that a senior person should…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission, while announcing polls in J&K and Haryana, said it is keeping Maharashtra for later as the state is still dealing with heavy rain and has a long festive season and streak of religious events ahead. Besides, the EC added, the high requirement of forces in J&K did not leave scope…
KOLKATA: I might have lost my daughter, but gained millions, the father of the RG Kar Medical College rape-murder victim told reporters on Friday, moved by the ‘Reclaim the Night’ protest across the world. At the same time, he urged all to refrain from naming her, sharing “ugly photographs of my daughter” (referring to photos…
On the night of August 14, we planned that a group of female doctors and students from the hospital would march till Shyambazar to join the “reclaim the night” procession. They were about to leave, when a large mob gathered outside the hospital. Police failed to stop them and, soon, most of them – all…
NEW DELHI: Amid widespread protests over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata, the health ministry on Friday said the heads of institutions will be responsible for filing an ‘institutional FIR’ within six hours of any incident of violence against any healthcare worker on duty.In an office memorandum issued to directors and…
NEW DELHI: Markets regulator Sebi on Friday proposed amendments to ease the compliance requirements for entities with listed non-convertible securities. This move will ease the cost of compliance for participants in the financial sector, as announced by govt in FY24 Budget.In its consultation paper, Sebi proposed aligning the approval and authentication process for financial results…
A Bengaluru-based YouTube content creator has ignited a social media debate after comparing hospitality of hotels in the US to those in India. Twenty-three-year-old Ishan Sharma with over 1.4 million followers on YouTube expressed his disappointment at the service he received at a Las Vegas hotel.Sharma claimed he was astounded when charged nearly $15 for…
NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh will head for Washington later this month, in the first high-level visit to the US after PM Modi’s recent trip to Russia led to some diplomatic ripples and at a time when there has been considerable delay in supply of American jet engines for the indigenous Tejas fighters.Singh is…
SRINAGAR: Political parties in J&K applauded Friday the announcement of assembly elections, calling it a big leap towards restoring democracy after six years of central rule and abrogation of special status in 2019.Former CM Omar Abdullah of the National Conference (NC) described the announcement of the three-phased polls from Sept 18 as the end of…
‘Gau Satyagrah’ (Photo: INC Chhattisgarh X handle) RAIPUR: All in the name of the cow, the Chhattisgarh Congress staged a quirky ‘Gau Satyagrah’, during which stray cattle were delivered to district and SDM offices to highlight the growing menace of stray cows—a problem the party claims it managed better during its previous tenure. By reclaiming…
