Violent protests over the Central Government’s ‘Agnipath’ scheme for recruitment in armed forces continued across Bihar and Uttar Pradesh on Friday. In Bihar, agitators disrupted rail and road traffic and set the Bhagalpur-New Delhi Vikramshila Express and Jammu Tawi-Guwahati Express trains on fire. Several organisations have given a 72-hour ultimatum to the Modi Government to […]
India’s Test players have left for England where they will play the postponed fifth Test from their 2021 series in the country. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) shared photos of the players at the airport and in flight ahead of the tour. India are set to face England at Old Trafford […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on Saturday likely to visit his mother, Hiraba, in Gandhinagar, where a road was named after her on Wednesday, ahead of her 100th birthday on June 18. Gandhinagar mayor Hitesh Makwana said the 80-metre road in the Raysan area has been named as Pujya Hiraba Marg so that the next […]
The foreign ministers of India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) began a special meeting in New Delhi on Thursday to review relations between the two sides and to forge a response to the impact of the Ukraine crisis on the economy and security of the region. This is the first time India […]
The Parliamentary Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture, in its report submitted to Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu today, recommended allowing religious rituals at sites declared as “protected monuments” by the Archeologiocal Survey of India (ASI).The committee headed by BJP RS member TG Venkatesh felt several historical monuments across the country held immense religious significance […]
Almost seven years after national-level shooter and advocate Sukhmanpreet Singh Sidhu, aka Sippy Sidhu, was shot dead at a park in Sector 27, Chandigarh, CBI officials on Wednesday arrested Kalyani Singh, daughter of Himachal Pradesh High Court judge Justice Sabina. Justice Sabina is also the acting Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court.Sippy was shot […]
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will have to appear at the ED office again on Friday as the questioning in connection with the National Herald case will continue. On Wednesday, Rahul Gandhi appeared before the investigative agency for the third consecutive day for questioning. Congress workers have been staging protests over Rahul Gandhi’s questioning in the […]
Shortly after the government made the big announcement of filling up 10 lakh vacancies in 1.5 years, the Congress – already sparring with the BJP over the National Herald case – further went a notch higher and shredded the mega plan. India is experiencing the worst employment rate in 50 years, Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala […]
Union defence minister Rajnath Singh and the three service chiefs on Tuesday introduced the short-term defence recruitment policy called Agnipath at a press conference. “The Cabinet Committee on Security has taken a historic decision today to approve the transformative scheme of ‘Agnipath’. Under this, Indian youth would be granted an opportunity to get inducted into […]