New Delhi: Marrying a woman by concealing identity or having intercourse under false promise of marriage, promotion and employment will be treated as crime for the first time under the proposed law that will replace the colonial-era Indian Penal Code, Home Minister Amit Shah said on Friday. Introducing the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Bill, which will…
New Delhi: In a landmark move, Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday introduced three bills in Lok Sabha to replace colonial-era laws, asserting that the proposed laws will transform the country’s criminal justice system and bring the spirit to protect the rights of the Indian citizen at the centre stage. Shah introduced the Bharatiya Nyaya…
Mumbai: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday called for concerted global efforts led by rich nations to help indebted countries deleverage at a time when multilaterism is the most potent challenge. Addressing online a G20 session, organised by the finance ministry and the Reserve Bank here, ahead of the grouping’s summit next month in New Delhi,…
Jaipur: Congress leaders K C Venugopal, Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, Govind Singh Dotasara and Ashok Gehlot will meet at the party headquarters here on Friday to discuss the upcoming Rajasthan Assembly elections. The meeting of the political affairs committee of the Congress will be held at the PCC war room. Prior to it, a meeting of Lok…
New Delhi: Future chief election commissioners and election commissioners will be selected by a three-member panel headed by the prime minister and comprising the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha and a Cabinet minister, according to a bill listed for introduction in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. This is in contrast to a…
Mumbai: Reserve Bank on Thursday proposed to increase the per transaction payment limit to Rs 500 for UPI Lite in offline mode and announced other measures to further deepen the reach and use of digital payments in the country. Presently, a limit of Rs 200 per transaction and an overall limit of Rs 2,000 per payment…
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…
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…
