Panaji: Former Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal on Thursday said he would move the Supreme Court against the Bombay High Court’s judgment convicting him in a 2013 sexual assault case, asserting that the order was “wrong”. In a major setback to Tejpal, the Bombay High Court’s Goa bench convicted him for raping a colleague in 2013,…
New Delhi: BJP leaders, including Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and state president Harsh Malhotra, paid tributes to former external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on her death anniversary on Thursday, recalling her contributions to the city and the country. The party leaders also planted saplings at the Delhi BJP office and Vasant Udyan in the…
Ranchi: The protest against alleged examination irregularities in Jharkhand intensified on Thursday with opposition MLAs protesting on Assembly premises on the first day of its Monsoon Session, as the stir gained steam over the past 13 days with six demonstrators on hunger strike. The protest, which began on July 25 under the banner of the…
Guwahati: Fourteen districts and 1.6 lakh people were affected by floods in Assam while the death toll rose to 95 with six more deaths, officials said on Thursday. Six fatalities were reported on Wednesday — two each from Sivasagar and Biswanath districts, and one each from Golaghat and Morigaon. The worst-hit Sivasagar alone has accounted…
New Delhi: Africa is India’s partner and its “priority”, and whether one speaks of a multipolar world order or of a reformed multilateralism, it will happen only when the continent is “given its due place”, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday. In his address at an event marking Africa Day 2026, Jaishankar said…
Ranchi: Students intensified their protest over alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations in Jharkhand with five demonstrators joining an indefinite hunger strike, even as Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday said the question paper leak issues are a national problem and offered talks to resolve the impasse. The protest, which began on July 25 under the…
New Delhi: Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday declared that she is determined to return home in December to put the country on the “right track” by restoring democracy notwithstanding the risk of facing the threat of imprisonment or a death sentence. Hasina made the remarks during an audio-only virtual press conference —…
New Delhi: There is no proposal for any special session from August 16 to 18 on the women’s reservation and delimitation bills, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said on Wednesday night. The government is making a fresh attempt for the passage of a Constitution Amendment Bill to implement 33 per cent reservation for women in…
New Delhi, Aug. 5: Meta has apologised to the Government of India after the temporary removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech video from Facebook triggered sharp criticism from the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology, which warned the social media giant that continued non-compliance could jeopardise its safe harbour protection under Indian…
New Delhi: As India marked the seventh anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370 on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaffirmed his government’s commitment to the development and progress of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh and the people residing there. He stated that in these seven years, the Union Territories have witnessed significant transformation across…
