The 79th session of the UN General Assembly began in New York with Palestine taking its seat in the General Assembly Hall next to the UN member states. Although Palestine is not a full member of the 193-member UN body, the Palestinian Authority’s envoy to the UN, Riyad Mansour, was seen seated at a table…
NEW DELHI: EC will visit J&K, where assembly polls are to be conducted before Sept 30 as per SC’s orders, between Aug 8 and 10 to assess overall poll preparedness. Since the review is a standard protocol followed by EC prior to announcement of polls in any state/UT, the visit is being seen as pointer…
K T Rama Rao (Picture credit: IANS) HYDERABAD: Protesting BRS MLAs who squatted in front of chief minister A Revanth Reddy’s chamber at the assembly were physically removed by marshals and evicted out of the assembly on Thursday. They were released later at the BRS party headquarters, Telangana Bhavan.When the assembly session started in the…
RANCHI: Seventeen MLAs of the BJP, including former ministers and a speaker, were suspended from the ongoing monsoon session of the Jharkhand assembly on Thursday for ‘disrespecting the dignity’ of the House. Speaker Rabindranath Mahto suspended the BJP lawmakers after they sat on an overnight Dharna in the well of the House demanding chief minister…
NEW DELHI: Apple is finally set to make Pro series of iPhones in India, in an affirmation to the country’s Make in India initiative. However, there are “no immediate plans” to assemble iPad tablets and MacBook laptops in India for now, sources told TOI. The iPhone Pro devices will be assembled for the first time…
NEW DELHI: Apple is finally set to make the highly-coveted and technologically-sophisticated Pro series of iPhones in India, in a big affirmation to the country’s Make in India initiative and the quality of manufacturing. However, there are “no immediate plans” to assemble the iPad tablets and the MacBook laptops in India for now, sources told…
NEW DELHI: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar sparked a fresh controversy on Wednesday with his remarks directed at a woman legislator during ongoing protests by the opposition in the state assembly. Amid heavy sloganeering against the government over alleged failures on reservation and special status for Bihar, Nitish lost his temper at RJD MLA Rekha…
NEW DELHI: Suvendu Adhikari, leader of the opposition in the West Bengal assembly, alleged on Wednesday that TMC MLA Tapan Chatterjee abused him verbally and tried to assault him in the state legislative.The BJP leader and Nandigram MLA expressed “insecurity” on being on the assembly premises and wrote a letter to Bengal speaker Biman Bandyopadhyay,…
NEW DELHI: Jammu and Kashmir, which witnessed record turnouts in the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls, has a rather busy security calendar in the months ahead. With the Amarnath yatra due to start on June 29 and stretching till Aug 19 and the impending polls at various levels — panchayat, urban bodies and assembly, of which…
BHUBANESWAR: The BJP won for the first time in 45 assembly constituencies and nine Lok Sabha (LS) seats in Odisha in the recently concluded simultaneous polls, an analysis by TOI of the results revealed. The party won a total of 78 seats in the 147-member assembly and 20 out of 21 LS seats in the…
