Category: India

The government on Wednesday listed a special discussion on Parliament’s journey of 75 years starting from the Samvidhan Sabha on the first day of the five-day session of Parliament beginning September 18. During the session, the government has also listed the bill on the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and other election commissioners to...

Actor and Trinamool Congress MP Nusrat Jahan was on Tuesday questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for nearly six hours in Salt Lake in connection with a cheating case. Jahan, who is the latest TMC leader under the scanner of central probe agencies, reached ED’s Salt Lake office around 11 am. The Basirhat MP was...

He was meant to fly on Sunday after the G20 summit ended but an embarrassing mechanical snag grounded him. Opponents at home and Indian social media users mocked him for the delay, which came after Mr Trudeau had a tense meeting with Indian PM Narendra Modi. Canada-India relations have grown increasingly strained in recent months....

On Tuesday, Union minister Meenakshi Lekhi laid the keel for a “stitched ship”, reminiscent of vessels that sailed on India’s ancient maritime trade routes, in Goa. She said the stitching of this vessel is an intangible cultural heritage of the country. Chief of Naval Staff Admiral R. Hari Kumar and Sanjeev Sanyal, a member of the Economic...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, 51, chose to stay in his room in the Capital’s Lalit Hotel after his Airbus plane developed a snag. What made the situation worse was that New Delhi has not been entirely warm towards Trudeau with a tersely worded statement describing India’s “strong concerns about continuing anti-India activities of extremist elements in Canada”...

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Space and Atomic Energy, Dr Jitendra Singh today said, the G20 India Summit, that concluded yesterday, showcased Bharat’s technological capabilities as well as economic strength.“Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, this Government has institutionalised fusion between the traditional knowledge and the...

 Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday attended the Madhya Pradesh Core Group meeting at the residence of BJP national president JP Nadda in the national capital ahead of the state assembly election. Earlier on August 17, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released its first list of candidates for poll-bound Madhya Pradesh. BJP declared the...

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that India consciously chose to make this G20 forum as inclusive as possible under its presidency. His comments came against the back drop of the 55-member African Union (AU) being admitted to G20 — a group of the world’s top economies We have consciously sought to make this G20 as inclusive...

Even as Delhi’s air quality improved slightly on Tuesday, it is likely to remain within ‘Very poor’ or upper end of Poor till Wednesday (November 9). According to System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) data, at an AQI of 321, the national capital continued gasping for fresh air. The air quality...