Russia on Tuesday slapped sanctions on US President Joe Biden, secretary of state Antony Blinken and a several other senior officials. Moscow said it had put the top officials on a “stop list” that barred their entry into Russia. Among other officials named in the list of 13 were defence secretary Lloyd Austin, CIA chief […]
About 45 per cent candidates who won the recent assembly polls in five states have declared criminal cases against themselves, poll-rights group Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) said on Tuesday.. The National Election Watch and Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all 690 winning candidates in the assembly elections of […]
Congress presidents in Punjab, UP, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa, where the party suffered setbacks are all set to put in their papers with Sonia Gandhi cracking the whip on Tuesday and asking for their resignations to enable reorganisation of the party. State unit chiefs Navjot Singh Sidhu (Punjab), Ganesh Godiyal (Uttarakhand), Girish Chodankar (Goa), Ajay […]
tye UT Administration today launched CorBevax Vaccination schedule for children of 12 years to 14 years. CorBEvax Vaccination of Children (12 yrs to 14yrs): Targeted Population is 45,000. As per directions of the Govt of India, COVID vaccination of 12-14-year age group is being launched in Chandigarh from tomorrow. “The child should not be less […]
The Udupi Muslim girls whose petitions seeking permission to wear Hijab inside the classrooms were dismissed by the Karnataka High Court said on Tuesday they will not go to college without hijab and fight the case legally till they get “justice”. They also claimed the verdict was ‘unconstitutional’.“We had approached the High Court seeking permission […]
Days after the Congress working committee meeting, the party’s senior leader Kapil Sibal on Tuesday demanded that the ‘Gandhis should step aside from the leadership role and give a chance to someone else to lead the party’. Since the poll debacle of 2014 the Congress has lost elections continuously except on a few occasions, he […]
Two Indian students injured in an accident in Canada are out of danger and another had a lucky escape, India’s envoy here has said in an update on the horrific road crash. Five Indian students were killed in a road accident in Canada’s Ontario province on March 12. The accident between a passenger van and […]
The United States has said there is no indication that the recent firing of a missile from India which landed in Pakistan was anything other than accidental. India on Friday said it accidentally fired a missile two days back that landed in Pakistan and that the “deeply regrettable” incident was caused by a technical malfunction […]
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said the Indian missile falling in the Pakistani territory is the most unfortunate incident, but it was heartening that no damage to life and property had been reported. He was making a statement in Rajya Sabha.He said the incident took place inadvertently during inspection and testing on March 9. […]