New Delhi: School students from across the country will get a chance to go on a seven-day study tour to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s school in Gujarat’s Vadnagar town, the Ministry of Education said on Thursday. The ministry has launched an online portal for the interested students of classes 9 to 12 to register and…
New Delhi: Sebi on Thursday said Govindayapalli Ram Mohan Rao has taken charge as an executive director and will handle the departments of investigation and internal inspection. Earlier, Rao was the regional director of the eastern regional office of Sebi (Securities and Exchange Board of India). In that role, he had supervised diverse portfolios, including…
Cape Town: India eased to a seven-wicket win in the second Test against South Africa here on Thursday to level the two-match series. Set a target of just 79, India raced to victory in 12 overs as the Test ended after lunch on the second day. Earlier, Aiden Markram scored the most combative hundred of…
Kathmandu: Nepal on Thursday signed a long-term agreement that will facilitate the export of 10,000 MW of electricity to India in the next 10 years during the two-day visit of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to the Himalayan nation. The agreement on power export was inked in the presence of Jaishankar and Nepalese Minister for…
New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday renamed the Rahul Gandhi-led Manipur-Mumbai yatra starting on January 14 as ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ which will travel through 15 states, including Arunachal Pradesh. This was announced by Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh after a meeting of party general secretaries, state in-charges, state unit chiefs and Congress Legislature Party…
New Delhi: In a major setback to senior Congress leader, Pawan Khera, the Supreme Court on Thursday refused to quash the criminal case registered against senior Congress leader and spokesperson Pawan Khera for his remark against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “An offence cannot be wished away,” said the two-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed…
New Delhi: Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena on Thursday recommended a probe by the CBI into the investigations of alleged fake pathology and radiology tests in the mohalla clinics in the national capital under the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government. It is alleged that “lakhs of tests” were done on ghost patients to…
New Delhi: Y S Sharmila, the daughter of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and founder of YSR Telangana Party, joined the Congress here on Thursday. She also announced the merger of her YSR Telangana Congress with the Congress, and said she would fulfil any responsibility given to her. Sharmila joined the…
Hamirpur (HP): Hitting out at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for skipping the ED’s summons for a third time, Union Minister Anurag Thakur wondered what the convenor of the AAP, which lectures on honesty, is trying to hide. Thakur said the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has been issuing summonses to Kejriwal time and again and he…
New Delhi: BJP’s Jharkhand unit chief Babulal Marandi on Wednesday lashed out at the opposition parties and asked them to apologise to the people of the country after the Supreme Court declined pleas for a SIT or CBI probe into stock price manipulation allegations against the Adani Group. The BJP leader’s reaction came after the…
