New Delhi: Congress leaders’ comments on President Droupadi Murmu’s address to the Parliament clearly hurt the dignity of the high office and therefore are unacceptable, the Rashtrapati Bhavan said on Friday. The President’s office said it believed it might be the case that these leaders were not acquainted with “the idiom and discourse in Indian…
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday laid the foundation stone for the construction of a new building of state-run Osmania General Hospital (OGH) here. To be constructed in 26 acres of land, the new hospital complex will have 2,000 beds capacity in 32 lakh Sq Ft of space. The scientifically designed facility,…
New Delhi: AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal went to the Election Commission’s office here on Friday and furnished his reply to the poll body over its notice to him on his “poison mixed” in Yamuna water remark. Kejriwal was accompanied by Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and her Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann. The former Delhi chief minister…
Thane: Nine Bangladeshi nationals were arrested from a chawl in Maharashtra’s Thane district for allegedly staying in the country illegally, police said on Friday. Based on a tip-off, the police raided a chawl in the Thakur Pada area of Bhiwandi on Wednesday afternoon, arrested the group and booked the house owner who rented his premises…
New Delhi: The government’s third term is seeing work being done at thrice the speed of previous administrations with a determination to end “policy paralysis”, President Droupadi Murmu said on Friday, citing decisions on issues such as Waqf boards and One Nation, One Election. Addressing a joint session of Parliament, signalling the start of the…
New Delhi: A high drama unfolded outside Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s residence in Delhi on Thursday as EC officials tried to conduct a search of the premises following an allegation that money was being distributed from the property ahead of the February 5 assembly polls. Mann, who has been campaigning for AAP in Delhi,…
Washington: US President Donald Trump has announced plans to impose on Saturday a 25 percent tariff on Canada and Mexico, its two neighbouring countries, and is also in the process of considering a similar measure against China. Trump said he would make a decision on Thursday night about whether to include oil in the list…
Washington: President Donald Trump has said that birthright citizenship was primarily intended for the children of slaves and not for the whole world to “come in and pile” into the US. On the very first day of his inauguration, Trump issued an executive order against birthright citizenship, which was struck down by a federal court…
While debating the glorious journey of 75 years of the Constitution, one should remember the words of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. The committee headed by him examined the issue of minority rights and accordingly, Articles 25 to 30 were enacted in our Constitution. The underlying argument in these Articles is that individualistic universal rights are not…
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will table Economic Survey 2024-25 on Friday (January 31), providing an official assessment of the performance of the economy in the ongoing financial year, and listing out the challenges being faced by the nation. The Economic Survey, tabled in Parliament ahead of the Union Budget also provides the roadmap for…
