New Delhi, The Congress on Thursday termed the all-party meeting convened by Home Minister Amit Shah on the Manipur situation as “too little, too late,” and said efforts to bring warring factions on the discussion table will lack seriousness if they are done sitting in Delhi. Congress general secretary KC Venugopal said the entire nation…
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah has convened an all-party meeting on June 24 in New Delhi to discuss the situation in Manipur which has witnessed sporadic violence since May 3. “Union Home Minister Shri @AmitShah has convened an all party meeting on 24th June at 3 PM in New Delhi to discuss the situation…
New Delhi: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday accused the central government of indulging in “dirty politics” by “denying” the supply of rice to the state for the implementation of a poll-promise of free distribution of the cereal to the poor. Siddaramaiah, who has just completed one month as chief minister in his second tenure,…
New Delhi: The NIA on Wednesday said it has arrested a key associate of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi for his alleged involvement in harbouring members of a terror syndicate involved in an RPG attack on the Punjab Police intelligence headquarters last year. Accused Vikas Singh, a resident of Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow, had provided shelter to Deepak…
New Delhi: Yoga was the mantra and ‘asanas’ the discipline on Wednesday as millions across the globe and distant corners of India stretched for the skies and dived for their toes, breathed in and out – mindfully – and twisted and turned to celebrate the International Day of Yoga. The day began with Prime Minister…
New Delhi: Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday issued an appeal for peace in violence-hit Manipur and said the unprecedented violence that has devastated the lives of people of the state has left a deep wound on the nation’s conscience. In a video message shared by the Congress on social media, she expressed…
New Delhi: Accusing the Modi government of being “anti-poor”, the Congress on Wednesday said the Centre discontinued the sale of foodgrains from the central pool under the Open Market Sale Scheme (OMSS) to state governments to “scuttle” the Karnataka government’s Anna Bhagya scheme. The Anna Bhagya scheme, one of the five pre-poll guarantees of the…
Srinagar: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti Wednesday urged party workers to support the upcoming annual Amaranth Yatra and serve the yatris, calling the pilgrimage a “golden chance” to remind the country of Kashmiriyat. “We had invited office bearers of the party from Anantnag district in south Kashmir and Ganderbal to direct our workers and activists to support…
Surat: The Yoga Day event organised in Surat city of Gujarat on Wednesday has set a new Guinness World Record for the largest gathering for a yoga session at one place with 1.53 lakh people joining the program, officials said. Representatives of the Guinness World Records have confirmed that 1.53 lakh people participated in the Yoga…
New Delhi: India has ranked at 127 out of 146 countries in terms of gender parity — an improvement of eight places from last year — according to the World Economic Forum’s annual Gender Gap Report, 2023. The World Economic Forum (WEF) ranked India at 135 out of 146 countries in the Global Gender Gap…
