President Draupadi Murmu lauded government’s decisions like abrogation of Article 370 and triple talaq, expressing her gratitude to citizens for electing a stable government for two consecutive terms. In her first address to Parliament as President, Draupadi Murmu said, “My government always kept the country’s interest paramount, showed the will to completely change the policy-strategy.” […]
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear pleas challenging the Centre’s decision to block a BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots.A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala took note of the submissions by lawyer ML Sharma and senior advocate CU Singh seeking urgent listing of their […]
AAP MLA Kunwar Vijay Pratap on Wednesday resigned from the sacrilege panel following differences with Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann government on handling the probe into the cases.The MLA is a former Inspector General of Police. He had resigned from the police on the same issue. The MLA headed the Committee on Government’s Assurances in […]
As many as four in five Indian professionals are considering job change this year and are keen on switching to roles that offer the right wage, and allows for appreciable work-life balance and flexibility, says a report.According to LinkedIn’s economic graph data, hiring level in India was 23 per cent slower in December 2022 as […]
Anup Gupta of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday registered victory in the Chandigarh mayoral election 2023. He has defeated Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Jasbir Singh by one vote. A total of 29 votes were polled of which Gupta got 15, while Singh secured 14. Congress and SAD abstained from the voting. Gupta will […]
A Delhi court on Tuesday extended the judicial custody of Shraddha Walkar muder accused Aftab Poonawala for the next 14 days. However, the Tihar jail authorities have agreed to his demand of being provided with law books to study. The court has also directed the authorities to provide him with warm clothes. Earlier, the jail […]
Defying Covid-19 protocols amidst the scare of the new Omicron variant, crowds of holidaymakers have descended onto Himachal Pradesh’s popular tourist resorts Shimla, Narkanda, Dharamsala, Kalpa, Manali, Dalhousie and elsewhere, the highest-ever arrival of tourists in the history, to ring in the New Year with carnivals and musicals amidst a snowy landscape. After a day […]
India’s star wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant’s car met with an accident while returning home from Delhi. Pant was driving his Mercedes which met with an accident near Roorkee in Uttarakhand. According to the doctors, Pant suffered injuries to his forehead and leg. After getting the information, Superintendent of Police Dehat Swapna Kishore Singh reached the spot. […]
The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) has directed the makers of Shah Rukh Khan- and Deepika Padukone-starrer ‘Pathaan’ to implement “changes” in the movie, including its songs, chairperson Prasoon Joshi said on Thursday.The CBFC has asked production banner Yash Raj Films to submit a revised version of the spy action thriller in accordance with […]
The desert state of Rajasthan is experiencing a record dip in mercury this year with the hill station of Mount Abu experiencing snowfall and the city of Churu, the gateway to the Thar, recording zero degree Celsius.People on the high rocky Aravalli plateau of Mount Abu near the Gujarat border woke up to snow-covered grounds, […]