NEW DELHI: Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi, BJP chief J P Nadda and new party entrant Ashok Chavan and Union ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and L Murugan were among the 41 candidates elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha on Tuesday while Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh will witness polling on February 27. The BJP has won […]
Courts Should Be Slow In Granting Bail To Accused: SC New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said courts should be slow in granting even regular bail to an accused in a case in which a huge quantity of narcotics has been seized, more so when the accused allegedly has criminal antecedents. The apex court quashed […]
New Delhi: The NITI Aayog has released a position paper titled “Senior Care Reforms in India: Reimagining the Senior Care Paradigm” which, it says, is one of the stepping stones toward India’s commitment to achieving the goal of Viksit Bharat @2047. The report was released on Friday by NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Suman Bery in […]
New Delhi: As generative artificial intelligence (AI) begins to threaten certain jobs, Sandip Patel, Managing Director, IBM India/South Asia, has said that AI will actually create more job options that it destroys. Speaking to a wire agency, Patel said that he has seen technology and multiple innovations evolve over a period of time. “I firmly […]
Mumbai: Calling it an “abuse of power”, the Bombay High Court said that the arrest of former ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in December 2022 was done “without application of mind”. The court made the observation in its order confirming the interim bail granted […]
Tel Aviv: Israel on Sunday condemned Brazil’s president for comparing the war in Gaza to the Holocaust, accusing him of being antisemitic and trivialising the Nazi genocide of European Jews during World War II. The outcry further strained relations between the countries, which have deteriorated since President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva returned to office […]
Tehran: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has called for a high turnout in the elections for parliament and a clerical body scheduled on March 1. Khamenei made the appeal in a meeting with people from the northwestern province of East Azarbaijan in Tehran, his website reported on Sunday, Xinhua news agency reported. He said the […]
Says He’s Seeking Stronger Mandate For India’s Benefit New Delhi: Stating that country got freedom from Article 370 after waiting for 7 decades, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asked the BJP cadre to work with renewed vigour and confidence for the next 100 days to reach out to new voters and win their confidence […]
NEW DELHI: The BJP’s national convention on Sunday passed a resolution on the Ram temple in Ayodhya, asserting that this heralds the establishment of “Ram Rajya” in India for the next 1,000 years. The resolution noted that the temple where a grand consecration ceremony took place last month, has become a temple of “national consciousness” […]
Jammu: Around 700 companies of security forces are to be deployed in the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh for the smooth conduct of Lok Sabha polls scheduled for April–May this year in the country. Official sources said that after West Bengal (920 companies), the highest number of companies of paramilitary forces will […]