Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday laid the foundation stone for the construction of a new building of state-run Osmania General Hospital (OGH) here. To be constructed in 26 acres of land, the new hospital complex will have 2,000 beds capacity in 32 lakh Sq Ft of space. The scientifically designed facility,…
New Delhi: AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal went to the Election Commission’s office here on Friday and furnished his reply to the poll body over its notice to him on his “poison mixed” in Yamuna water remark. Kejriwal was accompanied by Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and her Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann. The former Delhi chief minister…
Thane: Nine Bangladeshi nationals were arrested from a chawl in Maharashtra’s Thane district for allegedly staying in the country illegally, police said on Friday. Based on a tip-off, the police raided a chawl in the Thakur Pada area of Bhiwandi on Wednesday afternoon, arrested the group and booked the house owner who rented his premises…
New Delhi: The government’s third term is seeing work being done at thrice the speed of previous administrations with a determination to end “policy paralysis”, President Droupadi Murmu said on Friday, citing decisions on issues such as Waqf boards and One Nation, One Election. Addressing a joint session of Parliament, signalling the start of the…
Ever since its crushing defeat in 2014, the Congress party has been caught in a spiral of confusion and missteps, seemingly unable to learn from its past mistakes. From bizarre statements by senior leaders to embarrassing public gaffes, the party appears to be struggling with both leadership and coherence. One of the most glaring instances…
New Delhi: A high drama unfolded outside Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s residence in Delhi on Thursday as EC officials tried to conduct a search of the premises following an allegation that money was being distributed from the property ahead of the February 5 assembly polls. Mann, who has been campaigning for AAP in Delhi,…
Washington: US President Donald Trump has announced plans to impose on Saturday a 25 percent tariff on Canada and Mexico, its two neighbouring countries, and is also in the process of considering a similar measure against China. Trump said he would make a decision on Thursday night about whether to include oil in the list…
Washington: President Donald Trump has said that birthright citizenship was primarily intended for the children of slaves and not for the whole world to “come in and pile” into the US. On the very first day of his inauguration, Trump issued an executive order against birthright citizenship, which was struck down by a federal court…
The Gond tribes of Adilabad district believe he is God; they deify him and the younger generation remembers him as their saviour. That was Prof. Christoph Von Furer Haimendorf (1915-1995) who lived among them at Marlawai. Haimendorf was an eminent social anthropologist who taught at the University of London. He had spent many years in…
While debating the glorious journey of 75 years of the Constitution, one should remember the words of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. The committee headed by him examined the issue of minority rights and accordingly, Articles 25 to 30 were enacted in our Constitution. The underlying argument in these Articles is that individualistic universal rights are not…
