Rainfall in Gurgaon on Tuesday left several roads waterlogged yet again, forcing commuters and vehicles to navigate knee-deep water at some place. The city received 65 mm rainfall till 4.30 pm, said the district administration. Wazirabad recorded a rainfall of 36 mm and Badshahpur received 36mm of rainfall. Stretches that were waterlogged included Rajeev Chowk,...
In a major organisational restructuring ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday announced new party presidents for the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand and Punjab. While union minister G Kishan Reddy has been appointed the president of the state unit in Telangana replacing Bandi Sanjay while Etela...
A day after two Aam Aadmi Party MLAs were sentenced by a court here, Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party president Virendra Sachdeva on Tuesday asked Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to remove “tainted” former Ministers and MLAs from his party and the Assembly. On Monday, AAP MLAs Akhilesh Pati Tripathi and Sanjeev Jha were sentenced “till rising...
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Leaders’ summit held virtually on Tuesday concluded with a joint communique ‘New Delhi Declaration’; along with two separate joint statements, one on ‘cooperation in countering radicalisation leading to separatism, extremism, terrorism’; and the other on ‘digital transformation’. During the summit, the SCO Heads of State Council approved the SCO Economic...
Gearing up for the big 2024 elections, and crucial state polls this year, the Bharatiya Janata Partytoday announced new chiefs in many states.G Kishan Reddy, MP and union minister, will now lead the party in poll-bound Telangana, replacingBandi Sanjay Kumar. BJP MLA Etela Rajender, who served as the first finance minister ofTelangana, has been appointed...
The Indian consulate in San Francisco was set on fire allegedly by Khalistani supporters in the early hours of Sunday. This is the second such attack on the consulate in five months; Khalistani supporters had vandalised the Indian Consulate in March. The incident was “strongly condemned” by the US. Diya TV, a local channel, shared a...
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said that southwest monsoon on Sunday covered the entire country six days before the normal date. Monsoon advanced in the remaining parts of Rajasthan, Punjab, and Haryana. As many as 16 states and union territories received deficient rainfall in June, with Bihar and Kerala reporting deficits at 69 per cent...
No country can progress without embracing technology and research and development, Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Monday. Interacting with the students of NIT Delhi as part of the BJP’s mega public outreach to mark nine years of the Narendra Modi government, Jaishankar advised them to understand local and global developments. “Globalisation has broken...
The Sabarmati Riverfront has become the soul of social and cultural activities in Ahmedabad, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday as he virtually launched the ‘Akshar’ cruise on the river that cuts through the city. Addressing a gathering through video conference, Amit Shah lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying when the latter was...
Lt Governor V K Saxena terminated the services of around 400 ‘specialists’ appointed by the AAP government in different departments, officials said on Monday, a decision that could trigger a fresh round of confrontation between the ruling party and the LG. They were engaged in a “non-transparent manner” and without the mandatory approvals of the...