NEW DELHI: As the farmers protest completes 200 days on Saturday, Olympian Vinesh Phogat is set to participate by joining those agitating at Shambhu and Khanauri borders.Since February 13, farmers have been camping at Shambhu after authorities halted their march to Delhi. They are demanding a legal guarantee of Minimum Support Price (MSP) for all…
NEW DELHI: The opposition has slammed Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma calling him “heinous minority hater” over the decision to remove Jumma break from state assembly. “Every Friday, we used to get an hour or two for prayer. It was since 1936, around 90 years have passed… A lot of governments and CMs came…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Brunei and Singapore in early September, the official spokesperson of ministry of external affairs Randhir Jaiswal said on Friday. PM Modi’s visit to Brunei is scheduled from September 3-4 and it will mark the first-ever bilateral visit by an Indian Prime Minister to the nation, Jaiswal said…
NEW DELHI: Champai Soren, former Jharkhand chief minister and long-time Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday.Soren in a statement to news agency PTI said, “After I was put under surveillance by Jharkhand govt in Delhi, Kolkata, my resolve to join BJP strengthened.”Upon his addition to the BJP, he said,…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday apologised for the collapse of Shivaji Maharaj statue in Maharashtra‘s Sindhudurg.“Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj is not just a name for me, for us Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj is our idol. Whatever happened in Sindhudurg a few days ago…today I bow and place my head at the feet of my…
NEW DELHI: The Assam assembly on Friday decided to discontinue the practice of giving “two hours” of Jumma break to Muslim MLAs.Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma hailed the decision by the assembly, saying it has “prioritised productivity” and has shed the “colonial baggage“.“By doing away with the 2 hour Jumma break, Assam assembly has prioritised…
NEW DELHI: The Akal Takht declared Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal “tankhaiya,” or guilty of religious misconduct, for the “mistakes” made by his party’s government from 2007 to 2017.After a meeting of five Sikh head priests, Gyani Raghbir Singh, the Jathedar of the Akal Takht, the highest Sikh temporal authority announced that…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday wrote another letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, claiming that she had not received a response to her previous letter, in which she called for more stringent legislation to address rape cases.In her letter, Mamata said that while she had received a reply from the…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Friday delivered a stern message to Pakistan and stated that the period of continuous dialogue with the neighbouring nation is over.Speaking at a book launch event in the national capital, the external affairs minister affirmed that emphasizing that actions have consequences.Jaishankar reflected on the potential nature of…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday during the keynote speech at a special session of Global Fintech Fest 2024 held in Mumbai said that there is festivity in economy and markets.PM further said that the fintech revolution is everywhere. He said there was a time when people used to get amazed by our…
