New Delhi: A meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, scheduled for today has been postponed due to some technical reasons. As per the new schedule, the meeting will now be held on September 19 and 20, 2024. A meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, […]
New Delhi: Moving ahead with its “one nation, one election” plan, the government on Wednesday accepted a high-level panel’s recommendations for holding simultaneous polls for the Lok Sabha, state assemblies and local bodies in a phased manner after a countrywide consensus-building exercise. Asserting that several political parties are already on board, the government said even […]
New Delhi: The opposition Congress on Wednesday slammed the Union cabinet’s decision to approve the proposal for ‘one nation, one election’, saying such an excercise is not practical in the country. Party president Mallikarjun Kharge said the ruling BJP comes up with such things only to divert attention from real issues when elections approach. “It […]
NEW DELHI: India has strongly reacted to remarks by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on the “suffering” of the Muslim community in the south Asian country, along with in Gaza and Myanmar. “We strongly deplore the comments made regarding minorities in India by the Supreme Leader of Iran. These are misinformed and unacceptable,” the […]