NEW DELHI: Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on Friday reacted to President Droupadi Murmu‘s address ahead of the Budget session, saying that the President appeared to become “tired” towards the end of her speech and “could hardly speak.”“The President was getting very tired by the end. She could hardly speak, poor thing,” Sonia, who attended the…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal hit out at the Election Commission of India (ECI) calling the CEC Rajiv Kumar’s response over the Yamuna River water row “baffling”. Reiterating his “Yamuna poisoning” charges over the BJP-led Haryana government, in a letter written to EC, he dared the poll panel to take action…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday took a jibe at the opposition saying that it was the first time since 2014, that there was no attempt to spark any “foreign interference” ahead of a Budget session.“This is perhaps the first session of Parliament since 2014, in which no foreign spark has flared up…
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is set to make history as the first Indian astronaut to travel to the International Space Station (ISS). He has been selected as the pilot for Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), a private astronaut mission launching aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft no earlier than spring 2025. Shukla, a Indian Air Force (IAF)…
NEW DELHI: Consumption inequality, both in rural and urban areas, has declined in 2023-24 from the previous year for almost all the 18 major states, the detailed results of the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) showed on Thursday.Earlier a fact sheet released on HCES by the statistics office last month had shown that the Gini…
CHANDIGARH: Cross-voting by three councillors helped BJP candidate Harpreet Kaur Babla get elected Thursday as the new mayor of Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (CMC). She defeated AAP nominee Prem Lata by two votes – 19 against 17.In the 35-member house, BJP has 16 councillors while AAP and Congress alliance is in a majority, with 13 and…
NEW DELHI: While physical inactivity, junk food and other factors have drawn a lot of attention for their role in causing lifestyle disorders, and rightly so, edible oil has mostly escaped scrutiny. PM Modi, in his address at the 38th National Games opening ceremony, focused on it and called its excessive use a key factor…
NEW DELHI: Probing a complaint on the cVIGIL mobile application about money being allegedly distributed from the official residence of Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann in the city, a team of election officials, along with police, reached Kapurthala House on Thursday evening. They were stopped by the security personnel and had to wait for 90 minutes…
NEW DELHI: With former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal sticking to his guns on “Haryana poisoned Yamuna waters” allegations and launching a scathing attack on the Election Commission, all options are open for the EC. This could include ordering a criminal FIR if it concludes that he has failed to back up his claims with facts…
LUCKNOW: The 39-year-old Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, the fighter pilot of Indian Airforce (IAF) and ISRO’s astronaut, has been official named pilot for Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), a private spaceflight for International Space Station (ISS), scheduled for post spring of the current calendar year.NASA and its international partners have approved the crew of the Ax-4…
