NEW DELHI: Asserting that “many questions remain” about the Modi government‘s announcement that an agreement has been reached with China on patrolling arrangements along the line of actual control (LAC), Congress said on Wednesday “it expects that the disengagement will restore the status quo ante as it existed in March 2020”.“The foreign secretary has said…
JAMMU: Union home minister Amit Shah cautioned Thursday that electing candidates from the NC-Congress alliance and PDP in the ongoing J&K assembly elections would play into Pakistan’s hands. “If they get elected, Pakistan will celebrate,” he said, addressing a BJP campaign rally at Chenani in Udhampur district for the third and final phase of polling…
NEW DELHI: Former BJP MP and party in-charge for Assam, Harish Dwivedi, made a controversial claim on Thursday, alleging that a specific community was waging a ‘jihad’ by producing more children to gain control of the country’s political system and impose their religious beliefs. He said that the government was taking serious measures to address…
JAMMU/SRINAGAR: Attempts are being made to revive the tumult of the 90s in J&K, but the Narendra Modi government will bury terrorism so deep that it never rears its head again, home minister Amit Shah said Monday at a campaign rally in Kishtwar district of Jammu division.He urged voters to hand the National Conference-Congress combine…
NEW DELHI: In a scathing retort to Congress party’s “U-turn” jibe on the government’s announcement of the Unified Pension Scheme, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday questioned the grand old party about its plans to meet its election promise of reinstating the Old Pension Scheme in Himachal Pradesh.Senior party leader and MP Ravi Shankar Prasad…
NEW DELHI: As senior BJP politicians hailed the govt decision to introduce the UPS, home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said the move was a reiteration of the Modi government‘s commitment for the welfare and security of its employees.Shah said in a post on X: “Congratulations to our central govt employees on the approval of…
Budget 2024 capital gains tax changes: The Narendra Modi government is considering suggestions for tweaks in the new long term capital gains tax regime that was announced by FM Nirmala Sitharaman in Union Budget 2024.The July 23 budget reduced the LTCG tax on property from 20% to 12.5%. The indexation benefit, which allowed taxpayers to…
NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha secretariat on Thursday allayed concerns about weather resilience of new Parliament building and said water leakage in the building’s lobby was due to slight displacement of an adhesive material which was used to fix the glass domes above. The clarification came as several videos of leakage and waterlogging in new…
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday called the seventh budget 2024-25 a “disappointing budget” and said that they have provided special allocation to Bihar and Andhra Pradesh just to appease their allies JDU and TDP so that they can save the government. After finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the budget at the Parliament, the Congress…
NEW DELHI: When finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the interim budget in February 2024, many were expecting it to be full of freebies with an eye on the 2024 general election. There were expectations that the government may announce tax cuts for the middle class and extra incentives for farmers and rural areas. But the…
