NEW DELHI: The fifth day of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly budget session on Monday saw disruptions as Samajwadi Party (SP) MLAs protested inside the assembly. The protest began after Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak made a comment that SP members believed was directed at Mulayam Singh.Speaking during the session, deputy CM Brajesh…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday nominated 10 public figures to lead a campaign against obesity and excessive edible oil consumption.This follows Prime Minister’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’ address, where he emphasised the growing concern of obesity in India and the need to control oil consumption in daily diets. He encouraged people to take the challenge…
CHENNAI: A Hindi teacher at Bhavans Rajaji Vidyashram School in Kilpauk was suspended for allegedly hitting a Class III student for failing to recite a Hindi poem. According to a written complaint submitted by the student’s parents to the school management, the teacher also threatened to bar him from entering the school. Following the complaint,…
NEW DELHI: Ex-CM and Kalkaji MLA Atishi was elected by consensus in AAP as leader of opposition (LoP) Sunday. This is the first time a woman will hold the post in Delhi assembly and also the first time in any state in India that both CM and LoP are women.Atishi’s name was proposed by Burari…
Delhi CM Rekha Gupta (Pic credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: CM Rekha Gupta said Sunday the previous AAP dispensation left the state coffers “empty”, but assured that the BJP govt was “committed” to rolling out the Rs 2,500-per month honorarium scheme for eligible women.Addressing a joint press meet with Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva after a…
CHENNAI: Chief minister M K Stalin fired yet another salvo at the Union govt on Sunday alleging the Advocates Amendment Bill 2025 was a direct assault on the autonomy of the legal profession.In a social media post on Sunday, Stalin said though the Union govt was forced to withdraw the draft bill due to ‘spontaneous…
NEW DELHI: The law ministry on Saturday withdrew the draft Advocates (Amendment) Bill, 2025 from public consultation after various lawyers’ bodies threatened protests against the bill that proposes to take disciplinary action against any lawyer for disrupting court functioning, even cancelling their license to practice. Furthermore, the bill lays down “standards of professional conduct and…
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor (Pic credit: PTI) THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Four-time Congress MP Shashi Tharoor appears to be growing increasingly disillusioned with the party, following what he perceives as a continued sidelining by the high command. His recent public criticism of a leadership vacuum in Kerala Congress and a meeting with Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul…
Telangana tunnel collapse (Pic credit: ANI) HYDERABAD: Six members of the team behind the heroic Nov 2023 Silkyara tunnel rescue operation in Uttarakhand joined the Army, NDRF, SDRF and local agencies on Sunday in accelerated efforts to save the eight workers – two of them engineers – trapped inside a collapsed portion of Srisailam Left…
PM Modi (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: To “salute the indomitable power of women”, PM Narendra Modi will hand over his social media accounts to women achievers from different fields on March 8, observed as International Women’s Day. The women will share their challenges and experiences to amplify the message of empowerment.The PM had handed…
