New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to file its response to the pleas seeking a direction to lay down criteria for exclusion of the creamy layer of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes from availing benefits of reservation in admissions and public employment. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant…
New Delhi: India’s Aakriti Dahiya and Anjum Moudgil won the silver and bronze medal respectively in the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions event at the Asian Shooting Championship here on Tuesday. Kazakhstan shooter Sofiya Shulzhenko set a new world record in the same event enroute winning gold at the Karni Singh Range. Sofiya ended the…
New Delhi: Over 24.64 lakh income tax returns are pending for processing for more than 90 days, out of about 8.80 crore ITRs filed for Assessment Year 2025-26 till February 4, 2026, Parliament was informed on Tuesday. To a question on the number of such returns pending for processing by the I-T department as on…
Patna: BJP national president Nitin Nabin on Tuesday asserted in the Bihar assembly that the state’s image has improved substantially since the NDA, led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, assumed power, defeating the RJD-Congress combine. Nabin, a former state minister who continues to represent the Bankipur seat, turned up at the House for the first…
New Delhi: Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday said “very ugly scenes” could have taken place had the BJP MPs not been stopped and the party’s women MPs been allowed to confront the Congress members who had come to the treasury benches on the day Prime Minister Narendra Modi was supposed to reply to the…
New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday said the Indo-US interim trade agreement sacrifices India’s strategic national interests and exposes the betrayal of the Modi government. Dubbing the deal as “trapped surrender”, Kharge, in a post on X, alleged, “Fine print of the Indo-US trade deal has exposed how PM Modi mortgaged India’s national…
New Delhi: Describing the Budget as an “underwhelming” and a “squandered opportunity”, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday likened it to rearranging air bags on a crashing car while assuring the passengers that the chassis is sturdy and they will feel better afterwards. Initiating the debate in Lok Sabha on the Union Budget, Tharoor quoted…
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…
