New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday will interact with participants of ‘Seva Yatra’, an ongoing motorcycle rally travelling from Vadnagar to Varanasi that passes through towns, districts, and villages to take the spirit of service directly to the grassroots. The rally is bringing together several dimensions of public engagement including ‘seva’ (service), ‘sampark’…
Panaji: Congress general secretary K C Venugopal on Wednesday demanded the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and said the Indian Express report about objections raised by Kumar’s colleagues proved that Rahul Gandhi was speaking the truth. The Election Commission’s handling of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls was undermining the electoral…
New Delhi: Expansive red flags raised by two Election Commissioners within the poll panel over the Special Intensive Revision of voters list triggered a massive political storm on Wednesday, with the Opposition accusing CEC Gyanesh Kumar of indulging in “one-man autocracy” and demanding his removal. Officials said Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi…
Nagoya: Star Indian weightlifter Mirabai Chanu finally filled the one glaring void in her glittering trophy cabinet, turning 12 years of waiting, near-misses and heartbreak into an Asian Games silver in the women’s 49kg event here on Wednesday. The Tokyo Olympic silver medallist totalled 198kg (88kg+111kg) to claim India’s first Asian Games weightlifting medal since…
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Wednesday asserted that all its official orders, decisions and administrative directions carry full legal sanctions and that differing views and observations are a normal part of deliberation in any institution. In a statement following The Indian Express report that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had red…
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday said making the state drug-free would be a top priority of his government, asserting that drug addiction was among the factors contributing to serious crimes, including those against women. Speaking after taking part in the destruction of around 3.10 lakh bottles of a banned cough syrup…
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday launched Bharat Taxi service and the Mukhyamantri Krishak Samriddhi Yojana, under which small and marginal farmers will get long-term loans at a reduced interest rate of six per cent. Bharat Taxi, the country’s first cooperative-led ride-hailing platform, is operated by Sahakar Taxi Cooperative Limited (STCL). Bharat…
New Delhi: Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi had flagged multiple issues, including deletion of names, in various states during the voter roll cleanup but the poll body was unanimous in its decisions related to the pan-India Special Intensive Revision of voters’ list, officials said on Wednesday. The officials made the remarks in…
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, during his bilateral meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha on the margins of the high-level UN General Assembly session, discussed recent developments in the context of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and put forth India’s view that dialogue and diplomacy is the way forward for a peaceful resolution of…
New Delhi: With the BRICS Summit concluding with the New Delhi Declaration, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has outlined three priorities going forward, including continued cooperation among the members of the bloc, a long-term agenda it hopes China will also engage with when it takes over the BRICS presidency, and greater sharing of best…
