New Delhi,: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday paid tributes to “every brick” of the old Parliament building and said the MPs will enter the new building with “new hope and confidence”. In his over an hour-long speech in Lok Sabha, Modi remembered the journey of India’s democracy and said the last day in this […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday said it wanted to “tighten up” the self-regulatory mechanism of monitoring TV news channels and granted four more weeks to News Broadcasters and Digital Association (NBDA) to come up with fresh guidelines. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and […]
New Delhi:Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday lauded the vision of first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and subsequent leaders, including Lal Bahadur Shastri, P V Narasimha Rao and Atal Bihari Vajpayee, but also reminded the Lok Sabha of the ‘cash-for-vote’ scam during the Manmohan Singh government. Initiating the discussion in the Lok Sabha on “Parliamentary […]
New Delhi: Several political parties, including from the ruling NDA and the opposition INDIA bloc, on Sunday made a strong pitch for the passage of the women’s reservation bill during the five-day Parliament session beginning Monday, with the government asserting that an “appropriate decision will be taken at an appropriate time”. At an all-party meeting […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that this Parliament session may be short in duration but is big on occasion, and is of “historic decisions”. In his remarks to the media ahead of the five-day session, Modi highlighted India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission, the “unprecedented” success of its G20 presidency, the launch of ‘PM […]
Thiruvananthapuram: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday said the West was not the “bad guy” as it was not flooding Asian and African markets with goods on a massive scale and that there was a need to get over the “syndrome” of seeing it in a negative way. Jaishankar, in an interview to Malayalam […]
New Delhi: The five-day special session of Parliament is all set to commence Monday, September 18. The proceedings will begin with ‘Samvidhan Sabha’. The Central government has decided to start the special session with a discussion on Parliament’s 75-year journey- the first gathering which met on December 9, 1946. The government has also released the […]
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Our profession will continue to thrive or it will self-destruct based on whether we do or do not maintain our integrity, Chief Justice of India Dhananjay Chandrachud said here on Sunday. Integrity is the core of the legal profession, the CJI asserted. Integrity is not eroded by one thunderstorm, it gets eroded by […]
Jammu: Ladakh witnessed “unbelievable” changes “for the better” since the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution, Lieutenant Governor Brigadier (Retd) B D Mishra has said, exuding confidence that it would be the most developed Union Territory in the country in the next couple of years. Mishra, who took over as Ladakh L-G in February, […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said that fairness is a “hallmark of great advocacy” and if the members of the Bar do not cooperate with the trial courts, it would be very difficult for the courts to deal with huge arrears of cases. The apex court made the observations while hearing a petition arising […]