NEW DELHI: All 10 opposition members attending the JPC meeting on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill – two opposition MPs were absent – were suspended for a day on Friday after they accused panel head Jagdambika Pal of arbitrarily changing meeting dates, and not heeding their plea to have the final sessions on Jan 30-31.The members…
NEW DELHI: Amid concerns raised by the US over irregular migration, India reiterated Friday that it would, as in the past, accept illegal migrants sent back from the US only after verifying their Indian origin and that any talk about the number of such undocumented people it was willing to take back was “premature”.The remarks…
New Delhi: Supreme Court on Friday said it would appoint a retired high court judge as independent observer to ensure “free and fair election” to the mayor’s post in Chandigarh, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra.The court rejected AAP leader and Chandigarh mayor Kuldeep Kumar’s plea for a full one-year term from Feb 20, 2024, when the SC…
While local officials await instructions from govt, chief minister Mohan Yadav was quite clear in replying to a reporter’s query about Kal Bhairav temple. “You may take the prasad to temple,” the CM said. INDORE/UJJAIN/MAHESHWAR/KHARGONE: Liquor ban at religious places in Madhya Pradesh has thrown up an interesting question-what of the famed Kal Bhairav Mandir…
Spokesperson of the ministry of external affairs Randhir Jaiswal (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Expressing concern over Khalistan supporters disrupting screenings of the movie ‘Emergency’ in the UK, MEA on Friday said freedom of speech cannot be applied selectively.“We consistently raise concerns with the UK government regarding incidents of violent protest and intimidation by anti-India…
PUNE: Alerts from three Pune hospitals to local authorities last Monday about a higher-than-usual occurrence of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), a rare but treatable autoimmune disease, blew up into an unprecedented cluster of 73 cases by Friday – almost trebling in four days from the initial 26 cases that caused alarm. No GBS-induced death has been…
The Supreme Court on Friday came down heavily on a man for throwing his estranged wife and minor daughters out of their matrimonial home, equating his behavior to that of an animal. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh lambasted the man, saying, “What kind of a man are you if you…
NEW DELHI: Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer Parveen Kaswan recently shared a video of a rare black panther strolling is lush greenery of north Bengal.“This black panther from North Bengal. Bagheera of Kurseong. What a beauty,” Kaswan wrote in a social media post, likening the elusive creature to the iconic character from The Jungle Book….
NEW DELHI: Chief election commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar has raised serious concerns about the growing menace of misinformation and fake narratives on social media, comparing it to environmental pollution. Speaking at the two-day international conference, Global Election Year 2024: Reiteration of Democratic Spaces; Takeaway for EMBs, held in New Delhi, Kumar stressed the urgent need…
File photo: Senior YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) leader and Rajya Sabha MP V Vijaysai Reddy NEW DELHI: Senior YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) leader and Rajya Sabha MP V. Vijaysai Reddy announced his retirement from politics on Friday. In a post on social media platform X, he revealed his decision to resign from the Rajya Sabha…
