At least seven people have died and 15 others fallen ill, some of them losing their eyesight, in yet another suspected case of hooch tragedy in dry Bihar, officials said on Friday.According to Rajesh Meena, the District Magistrate of Saran, all cases have been reported from villages falling under the Maker police station area. “Prima […]
The Finance Ministry has said that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will not apply on room rents of ‘sarais’ (inns) or properties managed by religious and charitable institutions. Certain ‘sarais’ managed by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) had on their own started collecting GST for rents up to Rs 1,000 per day after […]
Congress MPs, including Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, P Chidambaram and Jairam Ramesh, were detained at Vijay Chowk here while they were staging a protest march to President House against inflation. A separate group of Congress leaders marching towards the Prime Minister’s house from the AICC headquarters was also detained. The Congress had announced a pan-India […]
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 […]