NEW DELHI: For a rich man, both marriage and divorce are costly affairs. An India-born American citizen, running a successful IT consultancy service in the US, realised this as he had to cough up Rs 500 crore as alimony to his first wife in Nov 2020 and has now been ordered by SC to pay…
NEW DELHI: Parliament’s winter session, adjourned sine die on Friday, was one of the most tumultuous in recent memory, characterised by violence, protests and a significant drop in productivity.Despite the disruptions, the session introduced the one nation, one election bills and the two Houses held a two-day debate on 75 years of the Constitution. The…
The controversy over Amit Shah’s Ambedkar remarks once again united the Congress and other opposition parties. (Photo/PTI) NEW DELHI: The winter session of Parliament saw differences within the INDIA bloc come to the fore with some regional parties differing openly with the Congress and some even questioning its leadership of the opposition alliance. The session…
Tamil Nadu BJP President K Annamalai. (PTI) NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Pary (BJP) on Friday held a “Black Day procession” in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, to protest against what it called the “glorification of a terrorist.” Police detained BJP state president K Annamalai and leaders of other organizations who participated in the march. The protest…
The Economic Affairs Cabinet Committee has approved the 2025 season’s Minimum Support Price (MSP) for copra. Following the 2018-19 Union Budget declaration, the government established that MSP for all mandated crops would be set at a minimum of 1.5 times the all-India weighted average production cost. The Fair Average Quality milling copra’s MSP is fixed…
NEW DELHI: The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) tasked with examining the Constitution (129th Amendment) Bill, 2024, and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024, has been constituted, featuring 39 members, 27 from the Lok Sabha and 12 from the Rajya Sabha. BJP MP PP Chaudhary has been appointed as the Chairperson of the committee, marking…
NEW DELHI: A man working as housekeeping staff at a government hospital in Dwarka has been arrested for secretly filming inside a women’s washroom, police said on Friday.According to a PTI report, the matter came to light when a woman using the washroom heard a sudden ringing sound from a hidden mobile phone. Upon investigation,…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi on Friday defended her brother, Rahul Gandhi on Friday, rejecting BJP‘s allegations of violence during a scuffle outside Parliament as “false and baseless”Speaking to the media, Priyanka accused the BJP of fabricating the claims out of desperation to divert attention from pressing issues.“This is the government’s desperation,” she said….
Massive seizure in IT raids BHOPAL: The Income Tax Department has uncovered a staggering 52kg of gold and Rs 10 crore in cash from an abandoned vehicle in a forested area near Mandora village in Bhopal. Officials have linked this discovery to recent widespread raids targeting real estate and construction firms across three districts in…
NEW DELHI: Former Karnataka minister and BJP MLC CT Ravi, who was arrested Thursday on charges of making ‘derogatory’ remarks against minister Laxmi Hebbalkar, alleged a conspiracy to murder him through a false complaint. The BJP leader also alleged negligence by the police, who he said had not yet registered a complaint or a zero…
