New Delhi: The External Affairs Ministry rose to the occasion to meet the increased demand for passport services built up due to two-and-half-years of the Covid pandemic, and recorded an impressive monthly average of 9 lakh, Union minister S Jaishankar said on Friday. In his message on the occasion of Passport Seva Divas, the external […]
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday told the state administration that important development works related to welfare of people shouldn’t be held up due to the ongoing political crisis in the state. The ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition plunged into crisis on Tuesday last when a group of Shiv Sena MLAs, led […]
LONDON: As the World Health Organization convenes its emergency committee Thursday to consider if the spiralling outbreak of monkeypox warrants being declared a global emergency, some experts say WHO’s decision to act only after the disease spilled into the West could entrench the grotesque inequities that arose between rich and poor countries during the coronavirus […]
New Delhi: Accepting a request for postponing questioning in the National Herald money-laundering case, the Enforcement Directorate has asked Congress president Sonia Gandhi to record her statement with the agency in the last week of July, officials said on Thursday. The 75-year-old Congress president, who was supposed to depose before the agency on Thursday, wrote […]
New Delhi; The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi inaugurated ‘Vanijya Bhawan’ and launched the NIRYAT portal in Delhi today. Union Ministers Piyush Goyal, Som Prakash and Smt Anupriya Patel were among those present on the occasion. Addressing the gathering, the Prime Minister said today another important step has been taken in the direction of the journey […]
New Delhi: “Misappropriated” funds of homebuyers were used by the promoter brothers of realty group Unitech to “bribe” Tihar jail officials during their confinement there, the ED said on Thursday as it attached assets worth Rs 257 crore in a money-laundering case against them. “The provisionally attached properties include residential, commercial units, land parcels in […]
MUMBAI: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray broke his silence on Wednesday over the ongoing political crisis in the state, saying he is ready to quit if any one MLA says he is not capable for the CM post. Addressing the people of Maharashtra on his Facebook page, Thackeray said Hindutva is the ideology and identity […]
NEW Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who was hospitalised for over a week for Covid-19 complications, on Wednesday, wrote to the Enforcement Directorate seeking postponement of her appearance in the National Herald case by a few weeks till she recovers completely. The 75-year-old Congress leader, who was discharged from hospital on June 20, had been […]
NEW Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government has told the Supreme Court that demolitions of illegal structures were carried out by its Kanpur and Prayagraj municipal bodies as per law and were not related to punishing the accused involved in violent protests following remarks by two BJP leaders on Prophet Mohammed. In an affidavit filed pursuant […]
Guwahati: Altogether 161 incidents of police action took place across Assam in 13 months after Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma took charge in May 2021, resulting in the death of 51 accused people and injuries to 139 others, the Gauhati High Court was informed. The state government said this in an affidavit as sought by […]