NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, visited a vegetable market in Giri Nagar, Delhi, where he interacted with women who shared their struggles about soaring food prices.Sharing a video of the visit on social media, the former Congress chief criticised the government for compromising with the middle-class budget and said, “Garlic…
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An illustration of NISAR satellite NEW DELHI: After much delays, Nasa has announced that the world’s most advanced and expensive earth observation satellite NISAR, jointly developed by India and the US for over a decade, is “likely to be launched in March” next year. It was earlier scheduled for launch in 2024.In a statement, the…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Monday accused Congress of disrespecting, mocking and humiliating B R Ambedkar during his lifetime, and doing a “drama” of remembering his legacy now, which showed the opposition party’s hypocrisy.Senior BJP neta Ravi Shankar Prasad highlighted several instances where he said Congress disregarded Ambedkar’s contributions and dignity.He pointed out that after Ambedkar…
LUCKNOW: Seers’ organisation Akhil Bharatiya Sant Samiti (AKSS) criticised on Monday RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat‘s recent remarks cautioning against ‘an unacceptable trend of wannabe Hindu leaders raking up temple-mosque disputes at various sites’.AKSS general secretary Swami Jitendranand Saraswati said such religious matters should be decided by ‘dharmacharyas’ (religious leaders) rather than RSS, which he described…
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah Monday stressed the need to develop an intelligence coordination strategy with ‘friendly’ nations to detect anti-India outfits and networks and include offensive measures as part of this strategy.Delivering the 37th Intelligence Bureau centenary endowment lecture here, Shah underlined that just sharing information with friendly nations was not enough…
MEERUT: The Meerut division claims tribunal has ordered 69 identified people, accused of “damaging” public property during a violent protest against the Agnipath scheme in 2022, to pay an aggregate compensation of over Rs 12 lakh. The case relates to the violence that broke out in Aligarh’s Tappal police station area in June 2022. The…
NEW DELHI: The first meeting of the 39-member Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on ‘one nation, one election’ is scheduled for Jan 8, indicating the govt’s urgency in pushing forward the contentious proposal despite significant opposition.Sources said law ministry officials will brief the panel on key features of the bill, highlighting how the country will benefit.The…
MUMBAI: The passing of Shyam Benegal, the torchbearer of New Wave cinema, evoked a lament of loss across the film fraternity Monday night. It was Shyam Babu who discovered and mentored an entire generation of the finest natural actors including Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil and Om Puri, having fathered the parallel cinema movement…
