New Delhi: No one is more capable than Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to become the prime ministerial face of the Opposition INDIA alliance bloc, Bihar deputy speaker and Janata Dal -United (JD-U) leader Maheshwar Hazari said on Sunday. Hazari even claimed that whenever INDIA bloc will announce its PM candidate, it will be Nitish […]
New Delhi: As more BJP MPs urged Speaker Om Birla to probe BSP MP Danish Ali’s conduct in Lok Sabha, the lawmaker on Sunday claimed a narrative was being set for “lynching” him outside the House and termed as baseless the allegation that he had instigated ruling party member Ramesh Bidhuri who made derogatory remarks […]
New Delhi: The Vijayawada ACB court on Sunday extended, till October 5, the judicial custody of TDP supremo and former Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in the alleged Skill Development Corporation scam. With Naidu’s custody ending Sunday, he was produced before the court virtually from Rajahmundry Central Jail. Judge Hima Bindu extended the custody by […]
New Delhi: The Opposition Congress on Sunday launched a scathing attack against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and questioned the saffron party’s credibility on the issue of women’s respect after Delhi Police told the Rouse Avenue Court that former wrestling body chief and BJP MP Brijbhushan Singh missed no opportunity to sexually harass women wrestlers. […]
Varanasi (UP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday gave credit to the women of the country for the passage of the women’s reservation bill in Parliament and said the power of women’s leadership has been proved in every period in history. Modi said this while addressing an all-women public meeting in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi, […]
New Delhi: Amid an uproar over BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri’s derogatory remarks against BSP parliamentarian Danish Ali in the Lok Sabha, prominent Muslim organisation Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind on Saturday said it was a “shameful incident” in the democratic history of India and it was the constitutional as well as moral responsibility of Speaker Om Birla to […]
New Delhi: The RSS-affiliated ABVP on Saturday won three out of the four central panel posts of the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) and the Congress’ student wing NSUI bagged one, according to officials. Tushar Dedha of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) won the post of DUSU president, defeating NSUI’s Hitesh Gulia. The Congress […]
Shimla: Superstar Aamir Khan has donated Rs 25 lakh towards the Aapada Rahat Kosh to provide succor to the rain-affected families in Himachal Pradesh, the state government said in a statement on Saturday. Expressing his gratitude to the Hindi film actor, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said that the assistance will “undoubtedly support the relief […]
New Delhi: ‘Bharat’ is the present and future of the world, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta asserted Saturday, as he extolled India’s growing economic power which is attracting foreign investment like never before. Bharat, he said, is leading the world in terms of digital payment, and justice is being delivered to the litigants at their doorstep […]
New Delhi: The Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers’ Association (JNUTA) has issued a “state of the university” report that alleged the admission system was in a “state of chaos” and flagged a decline in the proportion of women students. There was no immediate reaction from the JNU administration to the report. The JNUTA, in a statement, […]