Senior BJP Lok Sabha member Jagdambika Pal was named chairperson of the joint committee of Parliament (JPC), which will examine the contentious Waqf (Amendment) Bill. A Lok Sabha notification said Speaker Om Birla appointed Pal as the head of...
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5th Dec 2025 | Updated at 11:46am 5th Dec 2025
CM Sharma visits UK to usher investments into ‘Rising Rajasthan’
The Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma, Deputy CM Diya Kumari with delegates visited London last week, to host an investor meet. The afternoon was organised by FICCI and High Commission of India at Taj 51 Buckingham Gate, and was attended...
Punjab govt to move SC against governor
Chandigarh: The two-day Punjab assembly session was cut short by a day after chief minister Bhagwant Mann informed the House that since governor Banwarilal Purohit had not given assent to the three money Bills, his government would resume the...
Gaganyaan test flight's crew module successfully recovered by Navy
Hours after the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) scientists successfully conducted the Gaganyaan failure test, the Navy’s Eastern Naval Command recovered the Crew Module (CM) from the Bay of Bengal. Isro chief S Somanath said the crew...
KCR unveils poll promises to counter Congress' guarantees
Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) unveiled its own set of promises ahead of the November 30 assembly polls to counter Congress’s “six guarantees”, setting the stage for a competitive electoral race as the party led by CM K Chandrasekhar...
TMC stands for 'terror, mafia, corruption': Nadda
Kolkata: Launching a frontal attack on the Mamata Banerjee-led regime in Bengal, BJP national president J P Nadda said that the time has come to bid farewell to the jungle raj of the TMC, which stands for ’Terror, Mafia, Corruption’.
Encroachment row: Didi gives Amartya Sen land deed
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday handed over land record documents of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s residence in Santiniketan to the celebrated economist, dismissing the claims of the current Visva-Bharati dispensation that he was illegally...
Vibrant Gujarat roadshow held in Mumbai
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani held a roadshow in Mumbai on November 26, for the ninth edition of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2019
Manchester airport delivers major boost to north with new Mumbai connection
Jet Airways’ five-times-a-week service from Manchester to Mumbai took for the first time this morning, at a celebration attended by Aviation Minister, Baroness Liz Sugg and hundreds of guests from across the region.
With both China and Pakistan bolstering their fleets of armed drones, India is fast-tracking negotiations for the acquisition of 31 weaponised MQ-9B ‘hunter-killer’ remotely piloted aircraft from the US, with the somewhat ambitious aim to ink...
Haryana will be a keenly watched battle where a resurgent Congress will seek to oust the BJP after a decade out of power in what was its bastion till the advent of Narendra Modi on the national scene.
A 33-year-old Gujarati man is under scanner in the US for allegedly providing forged American green cards sourced from China to illegal immigrants. A native of Matar taluka in Kheda, the man, identified as Atul Patel (name changed), had moved...
Election Commission will announce assembly polls in Maharashtra only after the J&K and Haryana election results on Oct 4, and is likely to tie them up with the Jharkhand polls.
A US court has ruled that Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Hussain Rana can be extradited to India, where he is wanted for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks carried out by Pakistan based LeT terrorists.
Around 22 coaches of Sabarmati Express en route from Varanasi to Ahmedabad derailed near Govindpuri station in Kanpur last week after the engine hit an “object placed on the track”, triggering suspicions of sabotage and an intensive investigation....
The Election Commission announced assembly polls in Jammu & Kashmir, ending a 10 year-wait for political parties since the last state elections and honouring Supreme Court’s Sept 30 deadline. This will be the first assembly poll in J&K since...
As the world continues to grow increasingly hostile and unsafe for women, a recent tragedy in India has once again highlighted this grim reality.
The Indian Navy's frontline frigate, INS Tabar, made a grand entry into London Harbour on August 7, 2024, for a four-day visit, further strengthening the...
