Statement recorded via a video link
NEW DELHI: Veteran BJP leader L.K. Advani on Friday recorded his statement before a special CBI court in the Babri mosque demolition case. The statement of the 92-year-old former Deputy Prime Minster was recorded through video conferencing in the court of special Judge S.K. Yadav in the presence of his counsel Vimal Kumar Srivastava, K.K. […]
KOLKATA: Leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury feels a section of young “overambitious” leaders is becoming increasingly restless and deserting the party due to the growing perception that it is not going to return to power at the Centre anytime soon. Conceding that their exit might adversely impact the party […]
NEW DELHI: At 864 cases and less than 21 deaths per million population, India has one of the world’s lowest Covid-19 infection and death rate, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday said underlining that the recovery rate among coronavirus-infected patients in the country is 63.45 per cent and the mortality is 2.3 per cent. […]
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was busy building his own image, and noted that one man’s vision cannot be a substitute for a national vision. Gandhi’s attack on the prime minister came as part of a series launched by him on Twitter, where he seeks to […]
NEW DELHI: In an effort to jointly combat the novel coronavirus, Israel on Thursday said it will send to India on board a special flight a research team which has been working with the Indian side to develop a rapid testing kit for COVID-19 which can give a result within 30 seconds. In the coming […]
NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said climate change has impacted the world and the only greenery is the solution to this crisis. Launching a tree plantation campaign (Vriksharopan Abhiyan) of the Ministry of Coal, he said the Indian culture has emphasized that one must not exploit nature but instead must support […]
NEW DELHI: India added 37,724 fresh cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday taking the country’s tally to 11,92,915, while recoveries surged to 7,53,049 with 28,472 people having recuperated in a day, the highest so far, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The death toll due to the disease rose to 28,732 with 648 people bsuccumbing […]
NEW DELHI: India and the US need to resolve the pending problems in trade relations and move into something bigger, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday. In an online interactive session at the India Ideas Summit, he said the two countries have the ability to shape a larger global agenda. “I understand the […]
New Delhi: Rajasthan Assembly Speaker CP Joshi Wednesday moved the Supreme Court against the high court directive to defer till July 24 the disqualification proceedings against 19 dissident Congress MLAs, including sacked deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot. The high court had said on Tuesday that it would deliver its order on July 24 on a […]
NEW DELHI: Media bodies on Wednesday condemned the attack on Ghaziabad-based journalist Vikram Joshi, who succumbed to his injuries during treatment, and demanded a judicial probe into it as well as other incidents of assault on scribes in Uttar Pradesh. Observing that attack on journalists, especially in Uttar Pradesh, has been increasing in the recent […]