Mamata Banerjee and Arvind Kejriwal pitched Mallikarjun Kharge as the Prime Ministerial face of the I.N.D.I.A bloc at a meeting of the here on Tuesday but the Congress president made it clear that it was important to “win first and then decide [such issues] later” West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata’s proposal for making Kharge the...
Adding to the shock surrounding the suspension of 79 Opposition MPs from Parliament in a single day, as many as 49 members faced the same action today. This has taken the total number of MPs suspended this session to a whopping 141, the highest ever. National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor and...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. PM Modi took to social media to inform about his conversation with Netanyahu and said the two leaders “had a productive exchange of views with PM Netanyahu on the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict…” In a post on X, formerly known...
India pushed back against the International Monetary Fund for saying the Reserve Bank of India’s intervention in the foreign-exchange market was excessive, implying that the country was trying to influence the level of the rupee. The Washington-based lender said the currency moved within a very narrow range from December 2022 to October 2023, suggesting the...
Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha attacked the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government Tuesday, alleging that Delhi CM Kejriwal’s Enforcement Directorate summons for the Delhi excise policy case were attempts of the BJP to “weaken” the CM. “If the BJP is afraid of any leader, it is Arvind Kejriwal; the BJP wants to...
India’s Covid-19 active caseload on Monday rose to 1,828 while one death was recorded in Kerala, the state where the Covid sub-variant JN.1 was detected recently, according to Union Health Ministry data. The number of people who recovered from the infection increased to 4.46 crore (4,44,69,931). The national recovery rate was pegged at 98.81 per cent, the...
Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has reportedly said that driverless cars will not be allowed in India to protect the jobs of drivers. According to a report by Business Today, Gadkari said, “I will never allow driverless cars to come into India because it will take away the jobs of several...
In an unprecedented development, 78 MPs, including both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members, were suspended today for staging protests in demand of a statement by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the security breach in Parliament last week. Fourteen MPs had been suspended last week, also for demanding a statement on the security breach. So,...
Homegrown budget airline SpiceJet, along with two more entities, Africa-focused Safrik Investments and Sharjah-based aviation company Sky One, have reportedly expressed interest in acquiring beleaguered carrier Go First. Their interest comes weeks after the deadline for making proposals passed and lenders started considering Go First’s liquidation. According to a report in The Economic Times, the resolution...
India has witnessed investment of over Rs.1,000 crore in Space Startups in last nine months of the current financial year from April to December 2023, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh has said. During an exclusive interview at the National Zee TV Conclave here, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology, MoS PMO, Personnel,...