New Delhi: The CBI has taken over the investigation into alleged illegal recruitment of Central Armed Police Forces personnel in West Bengal on the basis of forged documents, officials said on Wednesday. The central probe agency registered an FIR in this regard on the directions of Calcutta High Court last week, they said. The agency had…
Jaipur: If Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants, the fire in Manipur can be doused in two or three days by the army but he wants to keep it raging, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi told a party rally in Rajasthan on Wednesday. He alleged that the ideology of the BJP has set Manipur on fire and…
New Delhi: BJP women MPs on Wednesday met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and demanded “stringent action” against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for allegedly making an “inappropriate gesture” towards Union Minister Smriti Irani when she was speaking in the House. In a complaint, signed by more than 20 women parliamentarians, it was alleged that Gandhi behaved…
New Delhi: Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande on Wednesday left for the UK on a five-day visit to attend a prestigious military event and hold talks with the top British defence brass on bilateral strategic issues. Gen Pande will review the 201st Sovereign’s Parade of Commissioning Course at the prestigious Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst as…
Chandigarh/Gurugram: Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala on Tuesday indicated that there were shortcomings of the administration in assessing the situation in Nuh, where a communal violence erupted on July 31 during a religious procession. The state government has extended the suspension of mobile internet and SMS services in the district till August 11, where…
New Delhi: Sparks flew on the first day of the debate on the no-trust motion moved by the Congress with the Opposition asserting that it was forced to do so to break Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘maun vrat’ (vow of silence) on Manipur and the treasury benches hitting back saying it was a no-trust vote…
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been re-allotted the 12, Tughlaq Lane bungalow a day after his Lok Sabha membership was restored following the Supreme Court staying his conviction in a defamation case, officials said on Tuesday. The House Committee of the Lok Sabha decided to allot the bungalow which Gandhi was asked to…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that the opposition brought the no-confidence motion against his government to test the confidence of its own alliance members in each other as the INDIA bloc is marked by distrust among its constituents. In his address to BJP MPs at a closed-door meeting of its parliamentary party,…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that the no-confidence motion brought by the opposition is a reflection of mutual distrust among INDIA bloc parties as they want to test who is with their proposal and who is not, sources said. In his address to party MPs at the BJP parliamentary meeting, he described…
New Delhi: A Parliamentary committee on Monday recommended bringing a law to make it mandatory for Supreme Court and high court judges to disclose their assets annually to an appropriate authority. The standing committee on Law and Personnel said there is a need to institutionalise the mechanism of regular filing of assets by the judges and…
