New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday gave assent to a Bill making the intentional disruption or prevention of the singing of the national song ‘Vande Mataram’ a criminal offence, granting it the same legal protection as the national anthem, a government statement said. With the president’s assent, The Prevention of Insults to National Honour…
Damascus: A Syrian court sentenced in absentia ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad along with his younger brother to death on Tuesday for crimes against humanity and war crimes during Syria’s 14-year conflict that left about half a million people dead. Also sentenced to death in the same case was Assad’s maternal cousin Atef Najib for…
New Delhi: The government is considering sending ‘The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026’ to a joint committee of both houses of Parliament, even as the Congress and some opposition parties have demanded that it be withdrawn, sources said on Tuesday. The Congress and TMC were among the parties that raised the issue during the…
New Delhi: India on Tuesday said the state of its border with China will reflect on the state of the “larger bilateral ties” and that maintenance of peace and tranquillity along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) is of “utmost importance”. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) also rejected China’s criticism of New Delhi identifying…
New Delhi: Opposition INDIA bloc parties staged a walkout from the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday in the post-lunch sitting after Leader of the Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge was not allowed to speak by the Chair, as the Upper House debated The Tribunals Reforms Bill, 2026. The Upper House, which has been witnessing repeated adjournments as Opposition…
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed two more Bills, including one about renaming Kerala as Keralam, without debate as members raised slogans and carried placards to the Well demanding the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the House. The House reassembled at 2 pm amid uproar, with Opposition members also raising…
Leh/Jammu: The Gunners’ Ladakh Odyssey — organised by the Army’s artillery regiment to commemorate the 27th anniversary of Operation Vijay — has entered its ninth day, with the 20-member motorcycle expedition traversing remote and strategically-significant terrain along the Sino-Indian border of eastern Ladakh, as a homage to soldiers who made the supreme sacrifice in service…
New Delhi: Ruling NDA and Opposition INDIA bloc MPs came face-to-face at Parliament’s main gate on Tuesday — with security personnel forming a cordon between them — as they staged protests and raised counter-slogans over “brutal” police action on job aspirants in Jharkhand and issues surrounding the alleged theft of donations at the Ram temple…
Ranchi: Normal life was affected in parts of Jharkhand on Tuesday as BJP workers enforced a state-wide bandh in protest against police action on job aspirants during their march to the state assembly a day ago over alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations. Most schools and business establishments remained closed, while vehicular movement was very low…
New Delhi: Days after the Supreme Court gave former prime minister Manmohan Singh a clean chit in the coal block allocation case, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said his record of integrity and accountability stood in stark contrast to the way the Narendra Modi government has operated. She said history would indeed remember Singh…
