New Delhi: Police on Monday arrested a Delhi government officer, who allegedly raped a minor several times and impregnated her, and his wife after questioning them and recording the statement of the victim, officials said. Shortly before he was arrested in the case which was registered on August 13, Premoday Khakha was suspended from his post…
New Delhi: Ahead of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, India on Monday said it has a “positive intent” and an “open mind” for the expansion of the five-nation grouping. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting the South African city from August 22 to 24 to attend the 15th BRICS summit at the invitation of South African…
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar was among nine MPs who took the oath as members of the Rajya Sabha on Monday. The oath was administered by Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar in the Rajya Sabha chamber in Parliament House. Jaishankar took the oath in English. This is his second term as a Rajya Sabha MP. He…
New Delhi: The BJP on Monday accused the Congress of acting under the pressure of its ally DMK as it slammed the Karnataka government for releasing 10 TMC water from Cauvery river to Tamil Nadu. Addressing a press conference, Union minister Rajiv Chandrasekhar said large parts of Karnataka have been hit by drought and the Congress…
New Delhi: The CBI has closed its case against Adani Enterprises and a former National Cooperative Consumer Federation chairman for alleged irregularities in the award of a contract for supplying imported coal to the Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation, officials said. The central agency has filed before a special CBI court the closure report in…
Bhopal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said there was an era of “corruption and scams” before 2014 and the rights of the poor and their money were robbed, but now every penny is reaching into their accounts directly. The data shows an increasing number of people are paying taxes, which shows their faith in the…
New Delhi: The Congress on Monday raised questions about the Bank of Baroda withdrawing the e-auction notice for the Juhu bungalow of BJP MP Sunny Deol, asking who triggered the “technical reasons” for the withdrawal. In a post on X, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said, “Yesterday afternoon the nation got to know that Bank of…
Pune: Some members left the NCP as the Centre had launched an inquiry against them through the Enforcement Directorate (ED), party chief Sharad Pawar said here on Sunday. Without taking the name of his nephew Ajit Pawar who led the group of rebel MLAs to join the Shiv Sena-BJP government last month, Pawar said their claim…
New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday reconstituted the party’s top decision-making body – CWC – with some leaders of the G23 grouping, including Shashi Tharoor and Anand Sharma, who were critical of the party leadership in the past among the 84 members. The all-important Congress Working Committee, formed 10 months after Kharge took…
Bhopal: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday released the Madhya Pradesh government’s ‘report card’ from 2003-2023 and said the BJP government in these years successfully removed the BIMARU category (laggard) tag from the state, which, according to him, was a legacy of the Congress regime. Shah released the government’s ‘report card’ of 20 years at…
