Rebel TMC MPs with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in June NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has issued notices to 20 rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs who are now affiliated with the little-known Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI), seeking their responses within seven days to disqualification petitions filed by the TMC.The disqualification … Read more
Image reshared by Kangana Ranaut NEW DELHI: Actor and BJP MP Kangana Ranaut on Wednesday hit back at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi amid the controversy over his “smash the patriarchy” remark.Ranaut’s response also came after Rahul Gandhi weighed in on the row over her comments about actor Kriti Sanon’s outfit in a Raksha Bandhan advertisement, … Read more
His remarks come amid an intensifying political confrontation between the BJP and Congress over the Manusmriti and its place in India’s social and constitutional discourse. NEW DELHI: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi has launched a sharp attack on the RSS and BJP over the Manusmriti, questioning their commitment to the Indian Constitution. He accused them of … Read more
SC on Tuesday granted interim protection from arrest to Abhishek Upadhyay. NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday granted interim protection from arrest to Abhishek Upadhyay who claimed he was vindictively booked under SC/ST Act by Ghaziabad police for an alleged road rage incident just because he had exposed embezzlement of donations offered by devotees at the … Read more
Sources said Congress MP Ajay Maken had written to parliamentary committee on home affairs chairperson. NEW DELHI: Demand from opposition MPs, including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, that a parliamentary committee take up the issue of use of “excessive” force against protesting students led to a fiery exchange at its meeting on Tuesday as a BJP member … Read more
Appearing for Qazi, senior advocate Parag Tripathi told SC that the 82-year-old medical practitioner had visited India in the past. NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought the Union govt’s response to US-based octogenarian — Khalid Jahangir Qazi — an OCI card holder accused by India of peddling pro-Pakistan propaganda and being sympathetic to … Read more
Mamdani was responding to questions about the RSS, the proposed event and protests against Bhagwat’s appearance. NEW DELHI: New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has said he does not support a planned event featuring RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at Madison Square Garden, while noting that the city may not have the legal authority to stop … Read more
In Jan, railway board chairperson Satish Kumar had said the project cost had increased by around 83% to Rs 1.98 lakh crore. (Representative image) NEW DELHI: The cost of the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train has been revised to around Rs 2.1 lakh crore, nearly double the original cost of approximately Rs 1.1 lakh crore. The proposal … Read more
Chairing the monthly Pragati meeting on Tuesday, PM Modi is learned to have told the top bureaucrats that such things are “unacceptable”. NEW DELHI: “Do we now need to go for a fourth-party audit?” PM Modi is learned to have asked secretaries at the Centre and chief secretaries in states while expressing concerns over reports … Read more
Ajit Doval and Wang Yi after the meeting. Ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to India next month, India and China held the 25th round of Special Representatives (SR) Dialogue on the Boundary Question, endorsing efforts to formalise the recent turnaround in the relationship on the back of border peace and discussing issues like … Read more