Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his 90th edition of “Mann Ki Baat” on Sunday recalled the imposition of National Emergency in June 1975, saying people’s democratic rights were crushed during the period but their faith in democracy and constitutional values did not wane.Addressing the youth, Modi said their parents’ rights were snatched away during the […]
Punjab is in an economic morass and debt trap, said the White Paper on state finances presented in the state Assembly here on Saturday.The document presented by Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema blamed previous governments for the fiscal mess. According to the document tabled two days ahead of the presentation of the state Budget in […]
The Centre has accorded a Z+ security cover of CRPF commandos to the NDA’s presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu, officials said on Wednesday. BJP president J P Nadda announced the candidature of Murmu, a party leader from Odisha who served as Jharkhand governor, at a press conference on Monday night following a meeting of the party’s […]
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi had to withdraw the farm laws, he will have to accept the demand of the youth and rollback the Agnipath defence recruitment scheme.The former Congress chief also said that for eight consecutive years, the BJP government has “insulted” the values ??of […]
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has been conducting searches on Friday at the Jodhpur residence and shop of Agrasen Gehlot, the brother of Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, in connection with alleged 2007 fertiliser scam case, sources said.Agrasen is a fertiliser trader. He was earlier questioned by the Enforcement Directorate under Prevention of Money […]
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 visit the house of slain Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala in Mansa district on Tuesday.Gandhi, who landed at the Chandigarh airport this morning, will express condolences to the family of Moosewala at his native Musa village in Mansa, said a party leader. Several Congress leaders including Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh […]
A gunman carrying a rifle and a handgun killed four people on Wednesday at a Tulsa medical building on a hospital campus, police said, the latest in a series of deadly mass shootings across the country in recent weeks.Tulsa Police Department Deputy Chief Eric Dalgleish confirmed the number of dead and said the shooter also […]
India’s GDP grew at 8.7 pc in 2021-22 as against contraction of 6.6 pc in previous fiscal, as per government data released on Tuesday.The GDP growth was 4.1 pc in January-March 2021-22. India’s GDP growth fell to 4.1% in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year, its slowest pace in a year. The economic […]
Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann who has come under fire following the shocking, daylight murder of singer-turned-political leader Sidhu Moose has agreed to judicial probe into the case after Moose Wala’s father wrote to him seeking an investigation by CBI, NIA or by a sitting judge of the Punjab and Haryana high court. A sitting […]