New Delhi: Nineteen opposition parties, including the Congress, Left and TMC, on Wednesday collectively announced their decision to boycott the inauguration of the new Parliament building by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, terming it as an “undignified act” that insults the high office of the president. In a joint statement, they said the inauguration of the […]
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah said Wednesday that the government had invited all political parties for the inauguration of the new Parliament building on Saturday (May 28) and that “they are allowed to act as per their wisdom”. This came shortly after nineteen political parties, including the Congress, issued a joint statement saying […]
New Delhi: The inauguration of the new parliament building this Sunday will also see Prime Minister Narendra Modi install a historic golden sceptre near the Speaker’s seat, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said today. This sceptre, Mr Shah said, was handed over to the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to mark the transfer of […]
New Delhi: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday said India is moving on an unprecedented growth trajectory, and the country will become a “global” leader by 2047, the year when it will commemorate a hundred years of Independence. He stressed that the economic progress of the country was deeply connected to its security, and defence […]
New Delhi: A court here on Wednesday posted the hearing on a plea for a fresh passport by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, an accused in the National Herald case, on May 26. Gandhi had moved the court Tuesday seeking a ‘no objection certificate’ to secure a fresh “ordinary passport” after having surrendered his diplomatic travel […]
New Delhi: The Delhi University plans to introduce two five-year integrated LLB programmes in the next academic year to provide a “more affordable and high-standard legal education”, a senior university official said on Tuesday. These are the Bachelor of Arts-LLB and the Bachelor Business Administration/Bachelor of Commerce-LLB, the official said, adding that initially, 102 students […]
New Delhi: The Opposition’s criticism of the inauguration of the new Parliament building as being ‘unconstitutional’ met with sharp responses from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday, snowballing into a full-fledged argument on Twitter. Opposition parties have criticised the Centre for alleged breach of Constitutional propriety for getting Prime Minister Modi to inaugurate the […]
New Delhi: Congress leaders from Delhi and Punjab held a meeting here in the wake of AAP seeking the support of opposition parties against the ordinance brought by the Centre on control of service in the national capital. Congress leaders Partap Singh Bajwa, Ajay Maken, Sandeep Dikshit and other leaders were present at the meeting. […]
New Delhi: India will send up its first second-generation navigation satellite on May 29 morning, using its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) rocket, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Monday. For the first time, an indigenous atomic clock will be flown in the navigation satellite NVS-01. According to the Indian space agency, the […]
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday extended till June 1 the judicial custody of AAP leader Manish Sisodia in a money laundering case related to the alleged excise scam. The judge also directed the jail authorities to consider providing the politician a chair and a table along with books inside the prison. While Sisodia […]