Trinamool Congress MP Sushmita Dev, who is the only woman member of a parliamentary standing committee that is examining the bill for raising the legal age of marriage for females, has written to its chairperson Vinay Sahasrabuddhe requesting him to invoke a rule that will allow all the women MPs to testify before the panel.The […]
The Congress on Monday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come clean on Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik’s allegation that he was “arrogant” on the farmers’ issue and demanded an unconditional apology if it was true. Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala said the prime minister should come forward and tell the truth to the nation, […]
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has approached the Delhi High Court seeking to quash the Air India disinvestment process and set aside the approvals given to it by authorities. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh is scheduled to hear the petition on Tuesday.Swamy, a Rajya Sabha MP, has sought to […]
Schools from classes 1 to 8 here remained shut on Monday amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The schools, which were to reopen from Monday after winter vacation, remained closed in the wave of the government orders issued on Sunday.“The number of students attending school was already low and now as per the guidelines, classroom activities from […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Ferozepur, Punjab on 5th January, 2022 and at around 1 PM, will lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth more than Rs 42,750 crore. These projects include Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway; four laning of Amritsar – Una section; Mukerian – Talwara New Broad Gauge railway line; PGI Satellite Centre […]
The Supreme Court on Sunday decided to conduct all hearings in virtual mode for two weeks starting from January 3, in view of the rising number of cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. The Supreme Court administration issued a circular announcing the decision on Sunday evening.It stated that an earlier circular prescribing standard operating […]
The West Bengal government on Sunday said that it would restrict flights from New Delhi and Mumbai, the two cities witnessing the largest surge in Covid-19 infections in recent weeks, to just twice a week in a measure to combat the spread of the pandemic in the state. Travel agents believe this will cause a […]
Hitting out at the previous government in Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said earlier criminals and the mafia used to play their games, but now the Yogi Adityanath government is playing “jail-jail” with them. Addressing a public meeting after laying the foundation stone for the Major Dhyan Chand Sports University here, Modi […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday laid the foundation stone of Major Dhyan Chand Sports University in Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh.The University will be established at Salawa and Kaili villages on the outskirts of the Sardhana town of the district at an estimated cost of about Rs 700 crore. The sports university will be […]
India’s vaccination programme against COVID-19 has been one of the most successful and largest in the world, the Union health ministry said on Sunday and termed as misleading some media reports that claimed the country has missed its COVID-19 inoculation targets.Since the start of the national COVID-19 vaccination drive on January 16 last year, India […]