NEW DELHI: Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Friday responded to Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankar’s charge of “wad of currency notes” being found at his seat, and clarified that he only carries a single Rs 500 note to the Upper House.“Heard of it first time now. Never heard of it till now! I carry…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday offered his respects to Dr BR Ambedkar at the Parliament House Lawns in Delhi on the 69th Mahaparinirvan Diwas. The Mahaparinirvan Diwas is celebrated on December 6, commemorating the death anniversary of Bharat Ratna Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, widely known as Babasaheb Ambedkar, who crafted India’s Constitution.PM…
NEW DELHI: Security has been heightened along the Ambala-Delhi border as farmer prepare to march to national capital on Friday. The march, led by a ‘jatha’ of 101 farmers is scheduled to begin at 1pm from the Shambhu Border.The Ambala district administration has invoked prohibitory orders under ‘Section 163’ of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday allowed easing of stringent anti-pollution curbs under Graded Response Action Plan (Grap) Stage 4 in NCR, and replacing these with Grap-2 measures. However, it said Grap-3 should be imposed immediately if AQI goes above 350 and Grap-4 should kick in if it crosses 400.Grap-4 was imposed in NCR on…
KOLKATA: Technology that helps decipher grainy CCTV footage better, coupled with limping gait of a suspect, helped police arrest a man who raped a seven-month-old infant in north Kolkata last Friday, reports Dwaipayan Ghosh. Police Wednesday, arrested suspect Rajib Ghosh, 34, alias Gobra from a resort in Gopiballavpur in Jhargram, where he worked as a…
Till the 1970s, Bengal ranked second after Maharashtra in terms of number of registered companies, but had slipped to the eighth spot by 2021 NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: More than 2,200 companies moved their registered offices out of West Bengal in past five years, with at least 39 of them being listed entities, junior minister for corporate…
Uttarkashi Police conducted a flag march to maintain law and order following the violence that broke out in a recent protest by people against the legality of a mosque (ANI photo) DEHRADUN: Days after the ‘Hindu mahapanchayat‘ held by right-wing groups against a nearly six-decades-old mosque in Uttarkashi which they claimed was “illegal”, members of…
The children will be groomed in a non-Dalit household and yet would be considered SCs for admissions to educational institutions NEW DELHI: Using its omnibus power under Article 142 of the Constitution, Supreme Court on Thursday annulled the marriage between a non-Dalit woman and a Dalit man, and ordered the husband to get Scheduled Caste…
NEW DELHI: Reaffirming India’s long-standing support for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, external affairs minister S Jaishankar on Thursday told Rajya Sabha that while countries have the right to respond to terrorism, they must also remain mindful of civilian casualties and humanitarian laws.Responding to a supplementary during question hour on the reason for…
Bhutan’s king Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and queen Jetsun Pema Wangchuck with PM Modi in New Delhi on Thursday NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held talks with visiting Bhutan King, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, expressing admiration for his vision for Bhutan’s progress and regional development, while reaffirming India’s commitment to advancing the…
