BJP’s tribal face whom Shah promised to make a ‘big man’ Raipur: Vishnu Deo Sai, a prominent tribal face of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Chhattisgarh, will be state chief minister after he was elected as leader of BJP’s legislative party during a meeting of 54 newly-elected MLAs here on Sunday. Incidentally, addressing a poll […]
New Delhi: Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tarik will pay a state visit to India on December 16 in his first trip to the country to explore avenues for future collaborations for regional stability and prosperity. It will also be the first visit of a top leader from the Gulf region following the Israel-Hamas conflict that […]
Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has observed that “protection of a person” from being charged in “marital rape continues in cases where the wife is of 18 years of age or more”. The court also cited the judgment in the case of Independent Thought Vs Union of India (2017) where the Supreme Court had held […]
Mumbai: Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Saturday urged citizens to have the audacity to listen to others and break their own echo chambers. The CJI was speaking at the 20th convocation ceremony of the Symbiosis International (Deemed) University in Pune. “The power of listening to others is important in every sphere of […]
New Delhi: India has showed that there is no irreconcilable trade-off between growth and distributive justice, and the government is making all efforts to further boost the country’s position as a growth engine, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday. In an address at the annual general meeting of FICCI, Singh said India, as the […]
Gandhinagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said India’s GDP growth of 7.7 per cent in the first six months of the current fiscal year is a reflection of the country’s strengthening economy and the transformative reforms carried out in the last 10 years. Addressing the ‘Infinity Forum 2.0’ conference at the GIFT City here […]
New Delhi: AIMIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi took oath taken oath as Protem Speaker of the Telangana Legislative Assembly in Raj Bhawan, Hyderabad on Saturday. The oath was administered by Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan. Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy was also present on the occasion. The Governor appointed Akbaruddin Owaisi as the Pro-tem Speaker of the […]
New Delhi: Union Minister Meenakshi Lekhi on Saturday said she did not approve any answer to a question in the Lok Sabha on declaring Hamas a terrorist organisation, prompting the opposition to call for a probe. “You have been misinformed as I have not signed any paper with this question and this answer,” the minister […]
New Delhi: A person who chooses to help a person in distress should not be harassed for showing kindness and if he or she suffers in the process, the law must come to the rescue, the Delhi High Court has said. The court’s observation came while granting interim payment of over Rs 5 lakh as […]
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Friday expelled Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, finding her guilty of accepting gifts and cash for raising questions in the parliament. Lok Sabha discussed the Ethics Committee report against the Trinamool Congress MP in the cash-for-query case. The committee has recommended the expulsion of the member of the House. […]