New Delhi: With G20 dinner invites being sent out in the name of ‘President of Bharat’, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday said while there is no constitutional objection to calling India ‘Bharat’, he hopes the government will not be so “foolish” to completely dispense with ‘India’ which has “incalculable brand value”. The Congress MP also…
New Delhi: Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Tuesday said that “our country’s name is Bharat and there should be no doubt about it”. The minister’s comments come against the backdrop of Opposition parties alleging that the government was trying to change the name of the country from India to Bharat. A G20 dinner invite in the…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to move a resolution renaming India as ‘Bharat’ during the special session of Parliament, sources said. The PM will move the resolution on September 18 at the new Parliament House. There will be no Question Hour, Zero Hour, and private members’ business during the session. This will…
New Delhi: Over 260 eminent citizens, including former judges and bureaucrats, have written to Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud urging him to take cognisance of DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin’s eradicate “Sanatan Dharma” remark. In a letter to the CJI, the signatories, including former Delhi HC judge S N Dhingra, said not only did Stalin…
Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate has summoned TMC MP and actor Nussrat Jahan for questioning next week in Kolkata in a case linked to alleged duping of senior citizens by promising them flats in New Town on the eastern fringes of the city, official sources said on Tuesday. Jahan has been asked to depose before the central…
New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday alleged that the “Union of States” is under assault in the Modi government as it claimed that a G20 dinner invite refers to the President as “President of Bharat”. “So the news is indeed true. Rashtrapati Bhawan has sent out an invite for a G20 dinner on Sept 9th…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded the role of teachers in building the future as he greeted them on Teachers’ Day on Tuesday. On the occasion, he also paid tributes to noted educationist and former president S Radhakrishnan on his birth anniversary, which is commemorated as Teachers’ Day. Modi said on X, “Teachers play a…
United Nations/Geneva: India has strongly rejected comments by UN experts on Manipur, terming them “unwarranted, presumptive and misleading” and asserting that situation in the Northeast state is peaceful. In the note verbale issued on Monday to the Special Procedures Branch of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Indian mission underscored that the…
New Delhi: The row over Udhayanidhi Stalin’s “eradicate Sanatan Dharma” remark escalated on Monday with the senior BJP leaders and Union ministers intensifying its attack against the opposition bloc INDIA, asking it if the recent Mumbai meeting was to target the Hindu religion and the Congress saying that it respects all religions but others have the…
New Delhi: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday met Union Home Minister Amit Shah here and discussed the roadmap for complete withdrawal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act from the state. Sarma said his government will take further steps based on the suggestions of the home minister. “I met Hon’ble Union Home Minister…
