NEW DELHI: Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar engaged in a heated exchange with Samajwadi MP Jaya Bachchan amid massive uproar in the Upper House on Friday. During the commotion, Dhankar accused the opposition MPs of showing disrespect towards the Constitution and democracy. He then called upon Jaya Amitabh Bachchan to address the…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called upon the nation to actively participate in the “Har Ghar Tiranga” campaign, making it a memorable mass movement as India approaches its 77th Independence Day.In a symbolic gesture, PM Modi changed his profile picture to the national flag and encouraged others to follow suit.“As this year’s Independence…
On March 26, 1993, The New York Times published a photograph of an emaciated Sudanese child stalked by a vulture. The child survived, the photograph won a Pulitzer in 1994, and the photographer, Kevin Carter, committed suicide the same year.Something else happened in ’93 that went unnoticed. The patent on a 20-year-old drug expired. This…
NEW DELHI: UK foreign secretary David Lammy dialled his counterpart S Jaishankar on Thursday amid the suspense over where Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India from Dhaka on Monday, might be headed. Jaishankar said the two discussed the situation in Bangladesh and West Asia.MEA didn’t confirm if India discussed Hasina’s asylum with the UK or…
NEW DELHI: While India has so far, unlike the US, not welcomed the formation of an interim govt in Bangladesh, New Delhi on Thursday showed the first clear sign of reaching out to the new regime in Dhaka as it said the interests of the people of the country are foremost on its mind.This follows…
KOLKATA: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, 80, the first Left Front CM who wanted to give an industry- and investor-friendly face to Bengal and his party, passed away around 8.20 am on Thursday at his modest Palm Avenue flat in Kolkata following a cardiac arrest. He was 80 and is survived by wife Meera and son Suchetan.Bhattacharjee, a…
NEW DELHI: In a move that could help expedite the launch of cutting-edge therapies in India, the Centre has decided to waive local trials for drugs and vaccines that are more advanced than current standards and have been approved in US, UK, Japan, Australia, Canada and EU. These can be launched in Indian market directly,…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday directed setting up of a high-powered committee of the Cabinet secretary, secretaries of ministries of jal shakti, power and environment & forests along with chief secretary of Uttrakhand to reconsider the expert panel’s report recommending approval for 28 hydro power projects.It questioned Centre’s decision not to accept the report, and…
NEW DELHI: The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, which aims to drastically change the Waqf Act and has attracted resistance from opposition parties and Muslim bodies, was referred to a joint parliamentary committee on Thursday for scrutiny after govt cleared its first stress test in Lok Sabha by getting the support of ‘secular’ constituents of NDA —…
PARIS: Star athlete Neeraj Chopra won India’s sole silver medal in the Paris Games with a season’s best throw of 89.45m in javelin on a day the hockey team had snatched its second successive Olympic bronze.While Chopra became the first Indian to win an Olympic gold and a silver in athletics, the event was dominated…
