New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday welcomed the successful launch of the international space mission carrying astronauts from India, Hungary, Poland, and the US, calling it a proud moment for the country as Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla becomes the first Indian to head to the International Space Station. “The Indian astronaut, Group Captain…
New Delhi: In a scathing attack on the Modi government, the Congress on Wednesday alleged that over the past eleven years, Indian democracy has been under a systematic and dangerous five-fold assault that can be best described as “Undeclared Emergency@11”. The opposition party also claimed that there has been “unbridled hate speech and a crackdown…
New Delhi: Ahead of the release of a book on Emergency, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday that the period was a learning experience for him and reaffirmed the vitality of preserving the democratic framework. ‘The Emergency Diaries – Years that Forged a Leader’, which highlights Modi’s fight for the “the ideals of democracy”,…
New Delhi: India was among the eight countries where more than half the unvaccinated children from around the world lived as of 2023, an analysis published in The Lancet journal showed, “emphasising persistent inequities.” Providing global estimates of current vaccine coverage, the study found that in the same year, there were 15.7 million children —…
New Delhi: Describing Emergency as a conspiracy to convert a multi-party democracy into a dictatorship, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday hit out at DMK, socialist leaders and others who have joined hands with the Congress, saying they were sitting with a party that had “murdered democracy”. Addressing an event “50 Years Since Emergency”,…
Kolkata: Claiming that Bengali-speaking people from the state were being branded as Bangladeshis in some BJP-ruled states, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said this cannot be allowed. Banerjee told reporters in her Assembly chamber that she has information that 300-400 Bengali-speaking migrant labourers were confined in a building in Rajasthan during the…
New Delhi: Flagging alleged irregularities in the Maharashtra assembly polls, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday claimed that there weren’t isolated glitches but “vote theft” and demanded the immediate release of machine-readable digital voter rolls as well as CCTV footage. The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha shared on X a media report which…
New Delhi: Aviation watchdog DGCA on Tuesday said surveillance conducted at major airports revealed several defects in the aviation ecosystem, including multiple cases wherein the defects reappeared on aircraft and centre line marking faded on the runway. The surveillance, which comes against the backdrop of the fatal Air India plane crash at Ahmedabad on June…
Srinagar: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said the conflict between Israel and Iran has elevated Tehran’s status to a leadership role for the Muslim world as it forced Washington and Jerusalem to their knees. “I salute the courage and determination of the Iranian leadership, its armed forces, and people for fighting…
New Delhi: Asserting that Operation Sindoor has made clear to the world India’s stringent policy against terrorism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that his government takes whatever steps are appropriate in national interest. Weapons manufactured in India showed their impact during the conflict with Pakistan, he said, without naming the country, at an…
