India is witnessing the death of democracy, Rahul Gandhi said on Friday, slamming the central government yet again as Congress holds pan-India protests on inflation. “We are not allowed to speak in Parliament, we are arrested on the road, this is the condition of India today,” he told at a press briefing. “The government just […]
The Reserve Bank of India on Friday increased the policy repo rate by 50 basis points to 5.4 per cent, governor Shaktikanta Das announced. In simple words, repo rate is the interest charged by the Reserve Bank of India when commercial banks borrow from them by selling their securities to the central bank. “Real GDP […]
The government on Thursday informed in Parliament that airlines were free to restart and to start air services from any airport in the country depending on their operational and commercial viability.Akali Dal MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal raised a question as to whether the government proposed to restore flight services from Delhi-Bathinda by Alliance Air which […]
India ended its campaign in the weightlifting competitions in the 2022 Commonwealth Games with super heavyweight lifter Gurdeep Singh bagging a bronze medal in Men’s 109+ kg final.Gurdeep’s medal took India’s total medal count from weightlifting to 10 — three gold, three silver and four bronze — marginally better than that at Gold Coast in […]
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut will be produced in a special court as his three-day Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody ends on Thursday. On Monday, the court remanded Raut in ED’s custody after the agency said he and his family were found to have received ₹1.06 crore of “tainted money” from his “front man” Pravin Raut, […]
US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed Taiwan’s parliament on Wednesday and was due to meet with its president as well as human rights activists during a visit to the island that has infuriated Beijing.China condemned the highest-level US visit to Taiwan in 25 years as a threat to peace and stability in the […]
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena, in the Supreme Cpurt argued that the Eknath Shinde faction can not claim to be the original party. “You can’t claim that you are the political party. And you say you are the political party sitting in Guwahati. Political party is […]
The United States has sanctioned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s rumoured girlfriend Alina Maratovna Kabaeva in a fresh round of sanctions targeting Russian elites over Moscow’s actions in Ukraine.According to the Treasury Department, the 39-year-old Kabaeva was in a “close relationship to Putin.” She is a former member of the State Duma and is the current […]
Contrary to the Pakistani military’s narration, Baloch Raaji Aajoi Sangar (BRAS) – an umbrella organisation of Baloch armed groups, claimed the responsibility for targeting and downing the military helicopter in the mountainous areas of Windar and Noorani in Balochistan.Earlier on Tuesday, the wreckage of military helicopter that went missing on Monday night carrying senior military […]
Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday spoke in Punjab while congratulating Punjab MP Sant Balbir Singh Seechewal who made his first zero hour reference in the upper house.“Tussi changa bolaya hai…aapko abhinandan,” said Naidu after Seechewal flagged the problem of incessant water logging in Malwa districts of Muktsar and Fazilka, leading to damage […]