New Delhi: A meeting of the Joint Committee on Waqf bill took a dramatic turn on Tuesday when Banerjee smashed a glass water bottle and threw it away during a heated exchange of words with BJP’s Abhijit Gangopadhyay. Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee was suspended for one day from the parliamentary committee on Waqf for…
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Karnataka government’s decision to withdraw its consent to the probe agency for investigating a disproportionate assets (DA) case against Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar. The current Karnataka cabinet headed by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on November 23, 2023, held the…
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Monday said two foreign terrorists, who have possibly infiltrated from north Kashmir’s Bandipora area, were involved in an attack that left seven people dead in Ganderbal district a day before. A doctor and six labourers were killed when terrorists struck a tunnel-construction site on the Srinagar-Leh…
New Delhi: Eighty-five Indian nationals have been discharged from the Russian military so far and efforts are on to secure the release of 20 more Indians, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said on Monday. The Indian side is expected to take up the issue of discharge of the remaining Indians when Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds…
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Monday slammed Canada for its “double standards,” as relations between New Delhi and Ottawa continue to deteriorate following the killing of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada last year. “Double standards is a very mild word for it,” Jaishankar said while explaining how Canada treats other…
New Delhi: The Congress released its first list of 21 candidates for the Jharkhand Assembly polls on Monday night, fielding Finance Minister Rameshwar Oraon from the Lohardaga seat reserved for Scheduled Tribes. Senior Congress leader and the party’s in-charge for Tripura, Odisha and Nagaland, Ajoy Kumar, will contest the election from the Jamshedpur East constituency….
New Delhi: Union Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu on Monday said that the government is looking to amend rules to put perpetrators of bomb threats to airlines on a no-fly list. Nearly 100 flights have received bomb threats in seven days since October 14. All the threats were later found to be hoaxes. At…
New Delhi: Indian and Chinese negotiators have reached an agreement on patrolling along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said on Monday. The foreign secretary said the Indian and Chinese negotiators were in touch over the last few weeks to resolve the remaining issues. It is understood that…
New Delhi: Two top aviation security officers met Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan on Monday and discussed the unabated incidents of bomb threats to Indian airlines, leading to diversions, cancellations, and passenger inconvenience. Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) Director General (DG) Zulfiquar Hasan and Director General of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) Rajwinder Singh…
Hisar: Dr. Satyawan ‘Saurabh’ and Priyanka ‘Saurabh’, a renowned writer couple from Hisar, presented their acclaimed books Titli Hai Khamosh and Deemak Lage Gulab to Haryana’s newly appointed Cabinet Minister, Ranbir Gangwa, during a meeting at his residence. Originally from Barwa village, the couple has beautifully captured the challenges of contemporary society through poetry in…
