New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday urged the opposition not to give a political colour to the government’s bills for implementation of the women’s reservation law and cautioned that they should be mindful that those who had opposed this in the past had suffered badly in elections. Allaying fears on delimitation, he assured…
New Delhi: The strength of the Lok Sabha will increase to 815, of which 272 seats will be reserved for women, and neither men nor any state will suffer any loss due to the implementation of this quota, Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said on Thursday. In his introductory remarks in the Lok Sabha…
Chandigarh: The Punjab Police on Thursday claimed to have busted a terror module backed by Pakistan’s ISI with the arrest of one person and the recovery of four hand grenades. In a joint operation of the State Special Operations cells of Amritsar and Mohali, the Counter Intelligence Wing of the Punjab Police also recovered two…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday called for the peaceful resolution of the conflicts in West Asia and Ukraine. He made the remarks after talks with Austria’s Federal Chancellor Christian Stocker here. “Today, the entire world is passing through a very serious and tense situation,” PM Modi said, adding, the impact of the…
New Delhi: NDA leaders on Thursday defended bills to amend the women’s quota law and set up a delimitation commission, saying women have waited for years for reservation, while opposition leaders alleged the way the government was proceeding with it could undermine the country’s federal and democratic structure. According to a bulletin issued on April…
Chennai/Namakkal: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday burnt a copy of the delimitation bill and dubbed it a “black law” and alleged it seeks to make the Tamil people “refugees” in their own land. Stalin hoisted a black flag and burnt a copy of the bill on delimitation circulated by the union…
New Delhi: In the backdrop of the ongoing West Asia conflict and its global ramifications, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday underlined India’s strong commitment to “safe and unimpeded” transit passage of maritime shipping, even as he emphasised that attacks on merchant shipping are “completely unacceptable”. The EAM said this in his remarks while…
Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday pledged the BJP will recover every penny the TMC has “stolen from the people of Bengal through corruption”, and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has no taint of graft charge even after two decades in the ruler’s seat. Addressing an election rally in Rajganj in the north…
New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Wednesday announced results for Class 10 board exams, officials said. “The results have been declared,” a senior board official said. The CBSE started with two editions of board exams for Class 10 from this year. Students needed to appear in the first edition, the results…
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday claimed that central forces tried to search her vehicle while on the way to the Kolkata airport. “Central forces tried to check my car when I was going to the Kolkata airport today. If you have the guts, you check my car every day,” the CM…
