- India
Unnao rape case: Kuldeep Sengar granted interim bail for daughter’s wedding
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday granted interim bail to expelled BJP leader Kuldeep Singh Sengar, who is serving life term for raping a minor girl in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao…
- India
SC refuses plea for declaring Joshimath subsidence a national disaster
Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a plea seeking the court’s intervention to declare the crisis in Uttarakhand’s subsidence-hit Joshimath a national disaster. A bench of Chief Justice D…
- India
Govt wants inclusion of its reps in SC, HC collegiums after NJAC strike down
New Delhi: Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday said that the government’s demand for inclusion of its representatives and that of states in collegiums of the Supreme Court and high courts was…
- India
Agnipath, game changer in making armed forces future-ready: Modi
Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday addressed the first batch of Agniveers and asserted that Agnipath, a short-term military employment scheme which has drawn criticism from some sections, is a transformative…
- India
I belong to middle class, understand their struggles: Sitharaman
New Delhi: Ahead of the Union Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Sunday that she was aware of the pressures of the middle class but also recalled that the present government has not imposed…
- India
Nepal crash: Nepalese rescuers resume search for four missing persons
Kathmandu: Nepalese rescuers resumed their search on Monday for four persons still missing after a passenger plane with 72 people, including five Indians, crashed into a river gorge while landing at the…
- India
India’s richest 1% own more than 40% of total wealth: Report
Davos: The richest one per cent in India now own more than 40 per cent of the country’s total wealth, while the bottom half of the population together share just 3 per…
- World
Networth of richest 1 percent double of rest of world: Oxfam
Davos: The richest 1 percent have bagged nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world population put together over the past two years, a new report said on Monday.…
- India
Joined Bharat Jodo Yatra for united India, shouldn’t be seen as leaning towards a party: Kamal Haasan
Kozhikode: Having recently joined Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra in Delhi, veteran actor Kamal Haasan on Sunday said he would have walked the streets of the national capital during the…
- India
Bharat Jodo Yatra resumes after 24-hr break in respect of Santokh Singh
Jalandhar: Hundreds of people including the late singer Sidhu Moosewala’s father joined the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra as it resumed from the Khalsa College Ground here on Sunday after remaining suspended…
- Kashmir
Project for revival of silk industry approved in J-K
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Administration has approved a project worth Rs 91 crore for the revival and revitalization of silk industry in the Union Territory through technological interventions, an official said on…
- India
BJP’s conspiracy behind Ramcharitmanas’ controversy: Tejashwi
Patna: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday blamed BJP’s “conspiracy” for the controversy over alleged insult to the Ramcharitmanas’ by his cabinet colleague, who belongs to the RJD. Yadav was…
- India
Gates named after ‘Ramayana’ characters to greet visitors to Ayodhya
Ayodhya: Devotees and visitors arriving to the city will soon be greeted by giant gates named after characters from the ‘Ramayana’ as part of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s directive to…
- India
Opposition parties to oppose EC’s proposal on remote voting machine: Digvijaya Singh
New Delhi: Most of the Opposition parties have decided to oppose the Election Commission’s proposal on remote electronic voting machine (RVM) as it is “sketchy” and not “concrete”, senior Congress leader Digvijaya…
- India
Creative autonomy necessary, but with safeguards: Anurag Thakur
New Delhi: Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Sunday made a strong pitch for creative autonomy and said there were adequate safeguards in place for monitoring content on OTT platforms. “Creativity…
