Mumbai: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar on Tuesday assumed her ministerial duties at the state secretariat Mantralaya, 13 days after the death of her husband and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar. She was accompanied by senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders and her elder son Parth Pawar as she took her seat in the deputy…
Kolkata: The final electoral roll in West Bengal will not be published before February 21, while attempts are being made to release it by the end of this month, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal said. The Supreme Court had on Monday extended the deadline for scrutiny of documents submitted by affected persons during…
New York/Washington: In the coming weeks, the US and India will work toward finalising the interim agreement on trade with a view to concluding a mutually beneficial Bilateral Trade Agreement, the White House has said. The two countries will also continue negotiations to address remaining issues, including services and investment, labour and government procurement, it…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday highlighted the changing face of Chhattisgarh’s Bastar, which was once known for Maoist violence. He also lauded the special celebration of ‘Bastar Pandum’ organised between February 7 and 9. “During this festival, the rich culture, traditions, and tribal heritage of Bastar were showcased in a magnificent way,”…
New Delhi: BJP’s women MPs have urged Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to take the strongest possible action against the opposition MPs who have committed “heinous acts” like moving deep inside treasury benches, climbing the table and laying a siege of the seat of the Prime Minister. The women MPs of the BJP also said…
Special Correspondent If parliamentary conventions carried constitutional immunity, Indian politics would be far less noisy—and far more convenient for those who mistake designation for distinction. Unfortunately for such assumptions, the Indian Constitution is refreshingly blunt on one crucial point: it does not recognise the office of the Leader of the Opposition at all. Not by…
By any measure, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s nearly hour-long press briefing on the findings of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) has pushed the Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi into the eye of a political and national-security storm. The Chief Minister did not merely trade in insinuations; he chose to publicly outline what he described…
Some books change history, books that gather dust, and then some books do not exist but still manage to enter the Lok Sabha. One also wonders, in passing, whether Rahul Gandhi has the habit of reading any books at all – published or unpublished. The safer assumption is that he relies on briefing notes supplied…
New Delhi: Penguin Random House India (PRHI) on Monday said it holds the exclusive publishing rights to former Army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane’s memoir titled Four Stars of Destiny, and clarified that the book has not yet been published, amid reports of unauthorised copies in circulation. The clarification came after the Delhi Police registered…
Dubai: The ICC on Monday said it would not be imposing any penalty on the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) for refusing to play its T20 World Cup matches in India. The world governing body said it decided after a dialogue with the BCB, as well as the Pakistan Cricket Board, which announced a boycott of…
