An unimpressed opposition said the BJP govt’s Budget had “no new ideas”, with Congress saying finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman was walking a “worn-out path” and not willing to break free as Congress govts had done in 1991 and 2004.Congress said the Budget had nothing to address the “illnesses” of stagnant real wages and a complicated…
AHMEDABAD: Zakia Jafri, the wife of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri who was killed in the 2002 Gujarat riots, died in Ahmedabad on Saturday. She was 86.The former MP was among 69 people killed inside Gulbarg Society in Chamanpura area of Ahmedabad on Feb 28, 2002, a day after the Godhra carnage in which 59…
CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: An engineer from Hingoli in Maharashtra, who had been missing in Iran for nearly two months, is lodged in a Tehran jail, reports Prasad Joshi. He made a WhatsApp call to his wife Thursday, informing her that he was likely to be released next Tuesday and would return to India.Yogesh Panchal, 33, was…
PUNE/GUWAHATI: Maharashtra reported its fifth death linked to Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) and Assam its first on Saturday as a continued uptick in hospitalisations across Pune took the metropolitan region’s caseload to 149, up by nine overnight.A 60-year-old man from Nanded Gaon treated at Pune’s Sassoon Hospital since Jan 16 died around 12.30am, hours before a…
JAMMU: Two robbers with sharp-edged weapons broke into a jewellery shop in the posh Greater Kailash area on Jammu’s outskirts and decamped with 1.5kg gold items worth crores on Saturday.Around 2pm, the armed duo wearing helmets walked into Anand Jewellers near Fountain Chowk. One of the robbers held the only woman employee in the store…
NEW DELHI: Eight Aam Aadmi Party MLAs on Saturday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, a day after resigning from AAP, dealing a fresh blow to the party as it gears up for the February 5 elections.The resignations came after the legislators were denied tickets to contest the upcoming elections. Poll What Is Most Important to…
NEW DELHI: The opposition on Saturday criticised the Union Budget presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and claimed that the government missed the opportunity to cut slacks for several groups.Congress MP and leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi accused the government of putting a “band-aid for bullet wounds” and claimed that the Centre…
In a stirring address while presenting the Union Budget 2024, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman invoked the timeless wisdom of literary greats Gurajada Appa Rao and the ancient Tamil text Thirukkural to underscore the government’s vision for Viksit Bharat. Opening her speech with a profound quote from the revered Telugu poet and playwright Gurajada Appa Rao,…
MUMBAI: As 18 of 140 patients with the debilitating neurological disorder, Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), are on ventilator support in Pune, there is some cold comfort in knowing this isn’t the worst outbreak in the world – yet. It could, however, be considered one of the largest GBS outbreaks as medical literature classified 30 to 50…
NEW DELHI: On the President’s address to Parliament, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday alleged it is “sad that the Modi govt is making the President read BJP pamphlet“.“In this 10 year laundry list, the Modi govt has exaggerated even the smallest schemes. This recurrence has been seen in the President’s address in past years…
