Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has invoked emergency powers to try to quell the protests by truck drivers and others who have paralysed Ottawa and blocked border crossings in anger over the country’s Covid restrictions. Trudeau ruled out using the military and said on Monday that the emergency measures “will be time-limited, geographically […]
SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday released the SAD-BSP manifesto for the Punjab polls saying it was the party’s vision for the next five years. Old-age pension of Rs 3,100 Shagun scheme Rs 75,000 To construct 5 lakh houses for poor with one lakh per year income Bhai Kaneria scheme re-launch with insurance of […]
The official YouTube account of Sansad TV– the government TV channel that live streams Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha proceedings– was founded to be “terminated” by YouTube Tuesday morning for “for violating YouTube’s Community Guidelines”. However, Sansad Television in an official statement has revealed the actual reason as to why the YouTube account got removed.In […]
Dr Ashwani Kumar, senior Congress leader and former Union Law Minister, quit the party today.In a resignation letter addressed to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, which was shared by news agencies, Dr Kumar wrote, “Having given my thoughtful consideration to the matter, I have concluded that in the present circumstances and consistent with my dignity, I […]
A special CBI court on Tuesday convicted Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad in the Rs 139.35 crore Doranda treasury embezzlement case. Prasad has already been convicted in four other cases of the fodder scam.Earlier, the RJD supremo arrived in Ranchi on Sunday to be present in the court during […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Future Group to approach the Delhi high court for a nod to go ahead with proceedings before the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLT) on the group’s deal with Reliance. The high court has listed for hearing on February 24 a batch of pleas concerning the ongoing legal […]
New COVID-19 cases in India were recorded below 30,000 after around 44 days, taking the virus tally to 4,26,92,943, while the active cases dipped to 4,23,127, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. The death toll climbed to 5,09,358 with 347 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.The daily COVID-19 […]
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres spoke to the foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine on Monday, expressing “serious concern” over the heightened tensions between the countries, his spokesman said. During the telephone talks, Guterres told Russia’s top diplomat Sergei Lavrov and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dymtro Kuleba that diplomacy was the only way forward, said spokesman […]
The Congress rebuffed its Karnataka leader Zameer Ahmed on Monday for his statement that “hijab prevents rapes”. Speaking about the hijab row, Ahmed said the veil kept women safe by “hiding their beauty”.Snubbing Ahmed, AICC general secretary Karnataka Randeep Singh Surjewala said there was no place in modern India and our society for parochial and […]
Making a strong case for banning cryptocurrencies, Reserve Bank Deputy Governor T Rabi Sankar on Monday said they are even worse than Ponzi schemes and threaten the financial sovereignty of a country. Observing that crypto-technology is underpinned by a philosophy to evade government controls, he said they have been specifically developed to bypass the regulated […]