President Joe Biden visited Texas’ Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, also known as the LBJ Presidential Library on Monday and gave his remarks to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act and outlined new proposals for reforming the US Supreme Court. This marked his first major speech since announcing his decision not…
THANE: NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar expressed concern over the potential for Manipur-like disturbances in Maharashtra and called for maintaining unity. At a Social Unity Conference in Mumbai, Pawar he Centre’s handling of the ethnic strife in Manipur, which has claimed several lives since last May and said there was concern that similar social disturbances…
China expectedly loomed over the Quad foreign ministers’ meeting in Tokyo Monday as India, US, Australia and Japan expressed serious concern over Beijing’s “dangerous manoeuvres” in the South China Sea (SCS) and called for an Indo-Pacific in which no country dominates and no country is dominated.In a first, India also joined others in upholding in…
NEW DELHI: New restrictions on movement of mediapersons within the Parliament premises triggered uproar on Monday, with leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi raising the issue in the Lok Sabha and urging the Speaker to “free them from the cage”.Later, in the meeting of the Business Advisory Committee, sources said Congress deputy leader in LS, Gaurav…
NEW DELHI: The defence ministry on Monday gave preliminary approval to the procurement of around 970 advanced land navigation systems (ALNS) for armoured fighting vehicles of the Army and 22 interceptor boats for the Coast Guard.The Rajnath Singh-led Defence Acquisitions Council (DAC) accorded AoN (acceptance of necessity) to the ALNS Mark-2, which will be “spoof-proof…
NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Monday said the middle class that “beat thalis and lit mobile phone torches with gusto during Covid-19 on one order of PM Modi” are set to desert BJP and support opposition because the recent Budget has “stabbed them in the back and chest” by removing indexation and…
NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi was misleading the country on the sensitive issue of national security and the govt’s Agnipath initiative, and offered to make a statement in Parliament to clarify the issues.Singh was speaking after Rahul’s speech in Lok Sabha on the Union Budget, as…
LUCKNOW: Amid several reports of kanwariyas engaging in vandalism and hooliganism, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday called for “self-discipline” among the pilgrims, saying “we must be devoted not only internally but also externally”.“Shivo bhutva Shivam yajet (to worship Shiva, first become Shiva)”, Yogi said in his missive on the second Monday of…
NEW DELHI: NEET counselling for allocating undergraduate medical seats will be conducted in four rounds, starting August 14.As per the notification issued by the medical counselling committee constituted under health ministry, the first round of allotment of seats will be carried out between August 14 and August 31; second round from September 4 to 22;…
MUMBAI: A 50-year-old American woman has been found chained to a tree in a forest in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg district, and a set of documents, including an Aadhaar card with a Tamil Nadu address and a photocopy of her US passport, were recovered from her, a police official said on Monday.A shepherd in Sonurli village, about…
