With usable foreign exchange reserves plummeting to USD 500 million, the March 9 local elections have been postponed due to lack of funds even as there is no sign of China coming on board with IMF and Paris Club on debt restructuring for the Island nation. The new dates for local elections are expected to […]
The National Education Policy (NEP) has reoriented the country’s education system in accordance with the demands of the future, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday.Addressing a post-budget webinar, the prime minister said the education system was a victim of “rigidity’ earlier. “The NEP has brought the flexibility and reoriented the education system according to […]
Former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) chief AS Dulat has warned against “mis-governance” in the “sensitive border state” of Punjab and asserted that it can’t be “governed from Delhi”.Dulat, however, said he did not foresee another outbreak of militancy in Punjab, but stressed that the state needed “empathy”. “I am of the firm belief that […]
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz began his two-day visit to India on Saturday with an aim to expand the overall bilateral ties and discuss the Ukraine conflict.Prime Minister Narendra Modi received Scholz at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, where the German leader was accorded a ceremonial welcome. In a tweet, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Arindam Bagchi […]
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea filed by advocate ML Sharma seeking to injunct the media from reporting on the Adani-Hindenburg issue till the court delivers its verdict on the committee. “We won’t injunct the media…We will pronounce our order,” Chief Justice of India Justice DY Chandrachud told Sharma. Earlier, the Supreme Court […]
Breaking his silence on the ongoing political drama around the arrest of Congress leader Pawan Khera for his derogatory remarks against the prime minister, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday said Khera had tendered an unconditional apology but the matter wasn’t over.“The majesty of law shall prevail. The accused has tendered an unconditional […]
Members of the Congress party’s first family, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi are not attending the meeting of the party’s steering committee under way here on Friday.Absence of the Gandhis in the meeting, sources say, is to give the message that Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has been given a free hand in setting […]
India has abstained in the UN General Assembly on a resolution that underscored the need to reach “comprehensive, just and lasting peace” in Ukraine, as it questioned whether the world was “anywhere near a possible solution” acceptable to both Moscow and Kyiv a year into the Ukrainian conflict.India was among the 32 nations that abstained […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday made a case for strengthening multilateral development banks to meet the challenges facing the world, especially climate change.In his video address to the G20 meeting of the finance ministers and central bank governors, Modi said it is imperative for the grouping to provide stability, confidence and growth to the […]
A Delhi court on Thursday granted interim bail till February 28 to Congress leader Pawan Khera, arrested by the Assam Police in a case related to his alleged objectionable remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Archana Beniwal granted interim bail to Khera, who was produced before the court, on a bail bond of […]