NEW DELHI: The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on Wednesday cancelled the provisional candidature of Puja Khedkar, who was facing accusations of cheating and forgery.The UPSC found Puja Khedkar of violating rules and debarred her from all the future exams and selections.“The UPSC has examined the available records carefully and found her guilty of acting…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Charanjit Singh Channi on Wednesday moved a privilege motion notice in Lok Sabha against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over “expunged” portions of BJP MP Anurag Thakur’s remarks tweeted by him on X along with the whole speech video.Amid row over BJP MP Anurag Thakur’s remark against Leader of Opposition in Lok…
NEW DELHI: Sikkim MP Dorjee Tshering Lepcha on Tuesday asked the central government to reconsider the term ‘China border‘ and instead use ‘Tibet border.’ Speaking in the Rajya Sabha, Lepcha argued that the 1,400-kilometer stretch from Leh, Ladakh, and Arunachal Pradesh to Sikkim more accurately borders Tibet rather than China. He urged the Indian government…
NEW DELHI: Former Union minister Anurag Thakur, in a sharp response to Akhilesh Yadav, shared an old video on Wednesday showing the Samajwadi Party chief inquiring about a journalist’s caste and name.Thakur shared the video with the caption, “Jaati kaise pooch li Akhilesh Ji? (How can you ask about the caste)” How it started?It started…
NEW DELHI: Congress parliamentary chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday targeted the government on handling of various issues, including the Union Budget, Manipur violence, caste census, and recent attacks in Jammu and Kashmir. While addressing the CPP meeting, the former Congress chief accused the government of being “self-delusional” and failing to learn from their “decline” in…
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MEPPADI (WAYANAD): Kerala’s worst natural disaster since the 2018 floods struck the state’s hilly Wayanad region early Tuesday when two monster landslides in as many hours buried a small town and several plantation villages, killing 126 people, injuring 196, and leaving around 100 people marooned or missing in swathes of slush, mud and misery triggered…
The first edition of the Constitution of India – considered a work of architecture rather than art – was sold for Rs 48 lakh, its highest price so far, at an auction recently. The rare book, one of the only 1,000 copies made by Survey of India Offices in Dehradun and published by Centre in…
NEW DELHI: In a strong message to investors and opponents, PM Modi Tuesday said his govt was not lacking in political will to take decisions based on a “nation first” approach and urged “wealth creators to be the primary driving force” of development, in what was seen as a retort to Congress’s repeated allegations of…
NEW DELHI: Landslides that hit the ecologically fragile region of Wayanad in Kerala on Tuesday is a stark reminder of the failure of successive govts in notifying the Western Ghats as an eco-sensitive area (ESA) – a prerequisite to preserving the terrain by banning environmentally hazardous human activities.Despite five draft notifications by the Centre since…
