Amritsar: Hundreds of activists of farmers’ outfit Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMC) on Thursday squatted on a railway track and blocked rail traffic at Devidaspura village here over alleged inadequate compensation for the land acquired for the Bharatmala project. Railway officials said incoming and outgoing trains running between Amritsar and Delhi were affected after 12.30 pm…
New Delhi: Kiren Rijiju’s exit from the coveted Law Ministry came in the midst of his frequent criticism of the judiciary, particularly on the system of appointment of judges to high courts and the Supreme Court. Rijiju, a three-term Lok Sabha member from Arunachal Pradesh, has slammed the collegium system of appointments to the higher judiciary…
Puri: Odisha is likely to get a second Vande Bharat Express, Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said here Thursday. The first semi high speed train in Odisha on the Puri-Howrah route was flagged off by Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtualLY during the day. The union minister, who was speaking at a programme at Puri railway station after…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stay the Patna High Court order which halted the caste survey being conducting by the Bihar government. A bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Rajesh Bindal said it would have to examine if the exercise being carried out is a census in garb of survey. “We…
New Delhi: In a major Cabinet reshuffle, Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on Thursday replaced Law Minister Kiren Rijiju, who has been moved to the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences. Rijiju, who had frequent run-ins with the Supreme Court over judicial appointments, was named as law minister on July 7, 2021. The Sports Minister and the…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court agreed to hear on Friday a plea challenging the Allahabad High Court order of conducting a “scientific survey”, including carbon dating, to determine the age of a ‘Shivling’ which was said to have been found at the Gyanvapi mosque complex in Varanasi. A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and…
Bengaluru/New Delhi: Siddaramaiah will be the next chief minister of Karnataka and DK Shivakumar his deputy, Congress sources said on Thursday after the party arrived at a consensus on government formation in the state following hectic parleys. Sources said the swearing-in ceremony will be held in Bengaluru on May 20 around noon. They said Congress…
New Delhi: Shares of the country’s largest insurer LIC have tumbled nearly 40 per cent from its issue price in the first year of trade, with investors’ wealth eroding by Rs 1.93 lakh crore. LIC had listed at over 8 per cent discount on May 17 last year after a successful Initial Public Offering (IPO) which…
New Delhi: Scientists say the simultaneous events of an exceptionally warm and moist period ushered in by a “warm ice age” approximately 7,00,000 years ago and the expansion of polar glaciers played a critical role in permanently altering the climate cycles on Earth. A European research team including Earth scientists from Heidelberg University, Germany, used recently…
Ramanagara (K’taka): Security was stepped up in Ramanagara, the home district of Karnataka Congress President D K Shivakumar, on Wednesday as a precautionary measure in light of his supporters staging protests at multiple places after some media outlets claimed that he lost the race for the Chief Minister’s post to Siddaramaiah. The move comes amid intense…
