NEW DELHI: In a swift decision, Centre on Saturday cleared the Supreme Court collegium’s recommendations and appointed chief justices for eight high courts, just a day after SC sought explanation from it for the delay in appointments. Significantly, it also appointed chief justice of Jharkhand HC, for which the state had moved a contempt plea…
NEW DELHI: New chief minister, Atishi, will continue to hold the 13 portfolios that she had earlier, including finance, planning, power, water, revenue, and public works department, while Saurabh Bharadwaj will have eight and new face Mukesh Kumar Ahlawat will handle five ministries. Apart from the ministries he held in the Kejriwal govt, Bharadwaj has…
NEW DELHI: Bangladesh‘s interim government on Saturday withdrew its ban on the export of Hilsa fish to India and announced that it will export 3,000 tonnes of Hilsa during the upcoming Durga Puja festival, which will take place from October 9 to 13. The Muhammad Yunus-led interim government earlier this month imposed a ban on…
NEW DELHI: In a gruesome discovery, the dismembered body of a 29-year-old woman was found stuffed inside a refrigerator in Bengaluru. The body was chopped up into over 30 pieces, according to the police.Authorities have identified the victim as Mahalakshmi, though details surrounding the incident remain unclear. The shocking incident is believed to have taken…
NEW DELHI: Delhi’s newly elected chief minister Atishi on Saturday urged Delhiites to make Arvind Kejriwal CM again in the upcoming assembly election, adding that if he is not elected then the Bharatiya Janata Party will “hatch a conspiracy” and take away all the benefits that the government is providing.Atishi was sworn in as the…
NEW DELHI: Atishi was sworn-in as the chief minister of Delhi on Saturday, making history as the youngest leader to hold the top position. She has become the third woman CM of Delhi, following in the footsteps of Sushma Swaraj and Sheila Dikshit.Five cabinet ministers including Saurabh Bhardwaj, Gopal Rai, Kailash Gehlot, Imran Hussain and…
NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Saturday defended remarks he made in the US regarding the Sikhs, and accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of spreading lies.Taking to X, the Congress leader said that BJP is desperate to silence him and cannot stand the truth.“The BJP has been spreading lies about…
NEW DELHI: Amul filed a complaint with the Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Police Station against false claims circulating on social media, alleging that the company supplied the ghee used in the Tirupati temple’s prasadam laddoos. The complaint was lodged after several social media posts falsely claimed that the ghee used in the laddoos contained animal fat…
Residents of a village in Bihar wasted no time grabbing fish that Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar had just released into a tank. The incident took place on Friday in Amarpur, Saharsa, during a government exhibition where Kumar was invited to inaugurate a biofloc tank for breeding fish. As soon as the CM left, the…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday spoke to the parents of Anna Sebastian, a 26-year-old Earnest and Young employee who died from ‘work-related stress,’ assuring them he would personally fight for this cause in his capacity as the Leader of the opposition.In a video call arranged by Congress leader Praveen Chakravarty during his…
