New Delhi: Bihar remained in focus in the Union Budget 2025-26 with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday making several announcements for the state, including setting up of a Makhana Board, financial support for the western Kosi canal and support for enhancing the capacity of IIT Patna. Bihar, currently ruled by the National Democratic Alliance…
New Delhi: The area occupied by tigers in India has increased by 30 percent over the past two decades, a new study has found. Researchers at the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, and National Tiger Conservation Authority, New Delhi, found that while tigers persisted most in highly protected “human-free, prey-rich” areas, the carnivore species were…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched a scathing attack on the Congress, accusing its “shahi parivar” of insulting President Droupadi Murmu, who hails from a tribal background. In a direct response to Congress leaders’ purported remarks on Murmu over her Friday speech, Modi, at a public meeting in Dwarka, said, “These Congress…
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…
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,…
Chandigarh: Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini on Thursday asked AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal to take Congress leader Rahul Gandhi along with him and drink the Yamuna River’s water near Delhi’s Rajghat, the way he did near Dahisra village on the Delhi-Haryana border. Trashing allegations levelled by the Atishi government and Kejriwal, Haryana has maintained that…
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday claimed that a team of Election Commission officials reached Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s Kapurthala House residence in Delhi for a search. A team of Election Commission (EC) officials was present at Mann’s Kapurthala House to search the premises, the AAP said in a statement. The development…
New Delhi: Taking potshots at the Congress and AAP, BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi on Thursday alleged that the two parties gave clean chits to each other about six months ago and are now exposing their corruption. Addressing a press conference, Trivedi said Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has given a statement for the AAP’s liquor scam…
