Category: Events

Both Rahul and Kharge have repeatedly questioned Shah’s absence from Parliament, demanding a debate on the Ram temple donation theft NEW DELHI: The BJP on Thursday accused Congress MPs Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge of deliberately spreading a false narrative of home minister Amit Shah not attending Parliament, saying he cannot be a part of...

Kharge said they had been demanding Shah’s statement on police “excess” against students for the past 15 days and that the PM should apologise to students NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha on Thursday cleared the Appropriation Bill, 2026, which authorises withdrawal of funds from the Consolidated Fund of India to cover excess expenditure of around Rs...

The FM said the charge will apply to merchants and not to users and will help banks and fintech invest in infrastructure and innovation NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed a bill that seeks to ease tax rules to attract investments and remove the existing legal provision that prevents banks and payment service...

Wangchuk also accused JP Nadda and Jitendra Singh of breaking a promise not to release photos of them offering him soup until he could announce the end of his fast NEW DELHI: Sonam Wangchuk said his wife Gitanjali had tried to get Rahul Gandhi to offer him juice to end his 26-day hunger strike at...

Three minority breakaway Trinamool Congress MPs will meet PM Modi over breakfast on Friday KOLKATA/NEW DELHI: Three minority breakaway Trinamool Congress MPs, who are now with the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) and have so far refused to be a part of the BJP-led NDA, will meet PM Narendra Modi over breakfast on Friday.Murshidabad...

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday in Washington. (AP Photo) US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he believes the conflict involving Iran is likely to end soon and claimed that Tehran cannot sustain the war for much longer.Speaking from the Oval Office in Washington, Trump also...

The Centre maintained that altering reservation policies requires empirical research and legislative action. NEW DELHI: Opposing the application of the ‘creamy layer’ criterion for exclusion of affluent members of scheduled caste and scheduled tribe communities from benefits of reservation in jobs and admissions to educational institutions, the government has told the Supreme Court that discrimination...

The affirmation of friendship comes at a time of Israel losing supporters over Netanyahu’s military offensive in retaliation for Hamas’s terror attack NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday received a telephone call from his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, with the two reviewing progress on various facets of both countries’ special strategic partnership and...

A few allies argued that opposition should join the discussion if govt puts FCRA bill on agenda NEW DELHI: Briefing the opposition parties about his discussion with parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju on the delimitation bill a day earlier, LoP Rahul Gandhi Thursday said he told govt that the opposition stand remains the same, and...

The case stems from the Bofors scandal involving the Rs 1,437 crore howitzer gun deal signed between India and Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors in 1986 NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea challenging the Delhi High Court’s 2005 decision that had quashed criminal proceedings against the Hinduja brothers in the Bofors payoff...