United Nations: India abstained in the UN General Assembly on a draft resolution introduced by Pakistan and co-sponsored by China on Islamophobia, asserting that the prevalence of “religiophobia” against Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and other faiths facing violence and discrimination must also be acknowledged rather than singling out just one religion. The 193-member General Assembly adopted…
Bengaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi would formally kickstart the BJP’s Lok Sabha election campaign in Karnataka on Saturday from Congress President M Mallikarjun Kharge’s home turf — Kalaburagi. He is scheduled to address a mega public meeting at the district headquarters town’s N V Ground at 2 pm. Kharge, who had represented Kalaburagi (Gulbarga Lok…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court in its order on Friday refused to stay the appointments of new election commissioners (ECs) under a 2023 law that dropped the Chief Justice of India (CJI) from the selection panel. The apex court’s three-judge bench, headed by Justice Sanjiv Khanna and also comprising Justices Dipankar Datta and A G…
New Delhi: “Every method has its plus and minus points,” the Supreme Court on Friday said as it refused to entertain a plea alleging irregularities in the functioning of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs). A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih said this court has already examined several petitions time and…
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Friday directed the police in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore to grant permission with certain conditions to BJP to conduct a four km road show of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in that city on March 18. Justice N Anand Venkatesh gave the directive to the Assistant Commissioner of Police, R S…
New Delhi: The Ministry of Railways on Friday said it is on track to register its best-ever performance in terms of freight loading, overall revenue collection and track laying in the financial year 2023-24. In a press statement, the ministry said, “As per the preliminary data, IR (Indian Railways) has crossed an originating freight loading…
New Delhi: Admonishing the State Bank of India for furnishing incomplete information, the Supreme Court said on Friday the bank was required to provide the number unique to each electoral bond that would disclose the link between the buyer and the recipient political party. It issued a notice to the country’s largest bank to explain…
Hyderabad: The ED on Friday took into custody BRS MLC and former Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter K Kavitha in connection with a money laundering case. Officials of the Enforcement Directorate had earlier raided her premises. Senior BRS leader and former minister Prasanth Reddy quoting ED officials said Kavitha will be taken to Delhi…
New Delhi: With political programmes in three states on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off the BJP’s determined southern push for the Lok Sabha election, a day before its announcement, as his party seeks to boost its seat tally from the region’s five states. Modi is scheduled to travel through all the southern states,…
Washington: India-US security cooperation will become even more important in the years ahead and the work of the two countries on emerging technologies will take on even more promise, a top American diplomat said on Thursday, reiterating the remarks of President Joe Biden that this is the defining partnership of the 21st century. “As both…
