Pune: A panel backed by Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Wednesday swept elections to the Malegaon Cooperative Sugar Mill in Baramati by winning all but one seat, while a group supported by the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) could not open its account. The election, which had turned into a prestige battle between NCP…
New Delhi: A Delhi University panel’s decision to drop proposed postgraduate Political Science papers on Islam, Pakistan, and China has failed to find consensus among the members. While some called it ideological censorship, those who supported the decision termed it a step towards making the syllabus “India-centric” and free from bias. In its meeting on…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday cited Operation Sindoor as a powerful testament to India’s advancing self-reliance in the defence sector, as he reviewed several infra projects at the 48th meeting of PRAGATI. The Centre’s PRAGATI initiative is aimed at fostering Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation by integrating efforts of the central and…
Nainital: Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar briefly lost consciousness during a public event in Uttarakhand’s Nainital on Wednesday (June 25), prompting a swift response from his medical team. The incident occurred during the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Kumaon University. The Vice President had just concluded his address at the event when he descended from the dais…
New Delhi: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge offered a mix of humour and political clarity while speaking about senior party leader Shashi Tharoor at a press interaction on Wednesday (June 25). With a characteristic chuckle, Kharge remarked, “I can’t read English, but his language is very good. That’s why we made him a member of the…
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”,…
