New Delhi: Navy Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar on Friday said the government is putting all-out efforts to bring back eight former naval personnel from Qatar, who were handed death sentence by a Qatari court. “We are working closely to ensure that their interests are looked after,” Admiral Kumar said at a media briefing. “The […]
Bengaluru: Forty-eight private schools in Bengaluru on Friday morning received an email with a bomb threat on its premises, triggering panic among the staff and parents, police said. The school authorities immediately alerted police, who reached the institutions concerned with the bomb disposal squads and anti-sabotage check teams, they said. The students and staff were […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted on Thursday that his work in the last 10 years has led to people having immense confidence in his government as he faulted past dispensations for acting like “mai baap” of citizens, with vote bank considerations guiding their development initiatives. In his address to beneficiaries of different schemes […]
New Delhi: The AAP will run a signature campaign from December 1 to 20 to get people’s feedback on whether Arvind Kejriwal should resign as Delhi chief minister if he is arrested under a “conspiracy by the BJP”, the party’s city convener Gopal Rai said Thursday. Addressing a press conference along with party MP Raghav […]
New Delhi: A parliamentary panel has recommended that the two-year imprisonment given to anyone who assaults or uses criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty should be reduced to one year after taking into account submissions of some MPs that the law is widely “misused”. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home […]
New Delhi: The Janata Dal (United) claimed on Thursday that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is setting the political agenda with his government’s “caste census”-exercise, increase in reservation and women empowerment ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in the same manner Prime Minister Narendra Modi did before the 2014 elections. A political vacuum had […]
New Delhi: India on Thursday reiterated its charge that Canada has given space to anti-India elements and was interfering in the internal affairs of this country and said it expected Ottawa to live up to its obligations under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. At a media briefing here, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam […]
Varanasi: The Varanasi district court on Thursday gave 10 more days to the Archaeological Survey of India to complete and submit a scientific survey report of the Gyanvapi mosque complex here. Taking up the plea of the ASI seeking three additional weeks to submit the report, District Judge A K Vishvesh said he hoped that […]
Malappuram (Kerala): Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday hailed the healthcare and palliative care in Kerala as one of the best in the country. Gandhi said that Kerala was a pioneer in palliative care in the whole country. “It leads the way as far as healthcare and palliative care is concerned,” he added. He also […]
Kolkata: Home Minister Amit Shah asserted on Wednesday that the Central government will implement the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and no one can stop it. Addressing a big rally here to launch the party’s Lok Sabha campaign, Shah launched a blistering attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on the issues of appeasement, infiltration, corruption and political […]