A large shipment of Indian eggs, worth at least Rs 15 crore, is currently stranded due to the restrictions, said PV Senthil, an egg exporter from Namakkal. NAMAKKAL: Oman on Tuesday stopped issuing new import permits for Indian table eggs, hitting the poultry industry in Namakkal in Tamil Nadu. The new restriction assumes significance in…
Screenshot from the documentary. LONDON: Children maimed by crude bombs used by political activists during election campaigns in West Bengal have appeared in a BBC documentary, “Children of the Bombs”, broadcast on Tuesday which reveals that at least 565 children have been killed, maimed or injured by such bombs in West Bengal since 1996 when…
NEW DELHI: Congress called Union minister Amit Shah‘s speech in the Rajya Sabha “bundle of lies” and said he came to the Parliament to praise PM Modi. On Tuesday, Amit Shah addressed the Rajya Sabha during a discussion on the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of India. While speaking at the Rajya…
NEW DELHI: The Modi government on Tuesday took a big step forward to implement its dream of “one nation, one election” by successfully introducing two bills that lay down the mechanism to hold simultaneous elections in the country. The Constitution (129th Amendment) Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha by law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal after…
NEW DELHI: Veteran BJP leader LK Advani, currently undergoing treatment at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in Delhi, is showing signs of improvement and is expected to be shifted out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) within the next one or two days, a statement released by the hospital on Tuesday confirmed. The former deputy prime minister…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra counter-attacked Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday for his remark on the Wayanad MP carrying a ‘Palestine’ bag in Parliament. While speaking on the second day of the Winter Session of the state assembly, UP CM Yogi Adityanath said that a Congress leader was roaming in…
Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday took a swipe at the Congress over bringing various amendments to the Constitution and said that the oldest party considered the Constitution as their “private fiefdom” and amended it so that to stay in power. Addressing the Rajya Sabha during a discussion on the 75th anniversary of the…
NEW DELHI: Ajit faction NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal on Tuesday took a veiled attack on the party president over his exclusion from the new council of ministers and said that after rejecting his demand for a Lok Sabha seat, the party offered Rajya Sabha seat “Am I a toy?”Amid speculation over his “Jahan nahi chaina,…
Union minister Amit Shah on Tuesday addressed the Rajya Sabha during a discussion on the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of India. He said that both BJP and the Congress had made the amendments to the Constitution during their reign. During his speech, Amit Shah launched a veiled attack on Congress leader…
NEW DELHI: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to send notices to around 20 members of parliament (MPs), who were absent during voting on the bill meant for the “one nation, one election” in Lok Sabha on Tuesday, reported a news agency ANI citing sources.The MPs from the BJP were absent in the…
