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Never refer to anyone’s caste, religion in LS: Speaker warns members
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday warned members against referring to anyone’s caste and religion in the House after a Congress MP alleged that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made…
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SC to consider early listing of Bilkis Bano’s review plea over remission of 11 convicts
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday said that it would consider early “listing by circulation” a plea seeking a review of its earlier order by which it had asked the Gujarat…
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Bhupendra Patel takes oath as Gujarat CM; PM Modi attends
Gandhinagar: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Bhupendra Patel on Monday took oath as the Chief Minister of Gujarat for a second straight term in Gandhinagar in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.…
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Anil Deshmukh granted bail in corruption case; put on hold for 10 days
The Bombay High Court on Monday granted bail to former Maharastra home minister Anil Deshmukh in an alleged corruption case. The bail order will be effective 10 days from now. In the…
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Hyderabad: YS Sharmila’s health improving, says hospital
Hyderabad: The health of YS Sharmila Reddy, founder and chief of the YSR Telangana Party, has shown improvement and she has been advised two-three weeks of complete rest for recovery, said her…
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Canada’s immigration backlog shrinks to 2.2 mn: IRCC
Toronto: Canada’s immigration backlog came down to just over 2.2 million from last month’s 2.4 million, according to new data revealed by the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). With this, the…
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Rajasthan: Congress’ Bharat Jodo Yatra resumes from Bundi
Jaipur: Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra resumed from Bundi in the Hadoti region of Rajasthan on Monday. Party’s general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, along with her husband Robert Vadra, is also participating in…
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New York City, Singapore declared most expensive cities in world
Singapore: The latest Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Worldwide Cost of Living (WCOL) Index released earlier this month declared Singapore and New York City (US) as joint “most expensive cities in the world”.…
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Russia offers to help India overcome crude price cap: Reports
New Delhi: Russia is said to have offered to help India overcome the oil price cap, which has been imposed by Western nations on the world’s largest country. “In order not to…
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Will restore old pension scheme if Congress comes to power in MP, says Nath
Bhopal: The Congress will bring back the old pension scheme (OPS) if elected to power in Madhya Pradesh in Assembly polls scheduled for next year, state unit chief Kamal Nath said on…
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Protests across NE on third anniversary of Parliament nod to CAA
Guwahati: The North East Students’ Union (NESO) on Sunday marked the third anniversary of the passage of CAA in Parliament as ‘black day’ across the region. Black flags and banners were displayed…
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Necessary to have connections with govt: AAP MLA on defection to BJP
The Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) winning MLA from the Visavadar constituency Bhupat Bhayani has denied joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) but has also said, “It is necessary to have good connections…
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Delhi liquor scam: MLC Kavitha questioned by CBI for seven hours
The questioning of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLC K Kavitha in the Delhi liquor scam case by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) continued for seven hours at her residence in the…
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Saudi tourist visa woes: Indians landing in trouble
Jeddah: A 62-year-old Hyderabadi woman, a resident of Toli Chowki, was stopped by Passport officials at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. Shocked by the unexpected development she was told that she…
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Gujarat: More Hindus voted for BJP than in 2017, what will Congress do? asks Owaisi
Refuting the claims made by Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on December 10 that it was parties like AAP and AIMIM’s (All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen) objective to cut down the vote share which…
