Congress won 64 assembly seats in Telangana and ended the nearly 10-year-old rule of the K Chandrasekhar Rao-led Bharat RashtraSamiti (BRS) government. Congress state unit chief Revanth Reddy and Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar met the governor in the evening to stake claim to form the government in the state. The BRS, which has...
The AAP will run a signature campaign from December 1 to 20 to get people’s feedback on whether Arvind Kejriwal should resign as Delhi chief minister if he is arrested under a “conspiracy by the BJP”, the party’s city convener Gopal Rai said Thursday. Addressing a press conference along with party MP Raghav Chadha, Rai...
India on Thursday described as a “matter of concern” the US charging an Indian national with conspiring to kill a Sikh separatist on American soil, and asserted that a high-level probe committee will investigate all aspects of the case. India has constituted a probe team to investigate allegations relating to the foiled plot to kill...
A 22-year-old man was killed after being hit by a train at the Qutab Minar Metro station in Delhi while he was crossing the tracks, the police said on Wednesday. The incident took place on November 12, they added. The man was crushed between the platform and the train and was rushed to a hospital...
The Centre’s free grain scheme has been extended for 5 years, it will benefit about 81 crore people. This information was given by Union Minister Anurag Thakur in the cabinet press conference on Wednesday. He said that it has been decided to extend the free grain scheme for five years. About 81 crore people will...
There were as many as 57 instances of extensions being granted to superannuating chief secretaries of various states in the last 10 years, the Centre told the Supreme Court on Wednesday. In a major setback to the AAP government, a bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud allowed the Union Ministry of Home Affairs to...
Lieutenant governor VK Saxena on Tuesday flagged off the Viksit Bharat SankalpYatra in the presence of MPs and senior government officials in northeast Delhi.The yatra, started about five months before the general elections, aims to educatepeople about schemes launched by the central government and how they can benefitfrom them.During the Delhi campaign, which will cover...
The US Embassy and its consulates in India have issued an all-time record of over 140,000 student visas between October 2022 and September 2023. “Our embassy and consulates in India issued an all-time record of more than 140,000 student visas,” the US State Department announced on Tuesday. The US State Department stated, “From October 2022...
Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud Tuesday said top judges of several countries agree that the right to legal aid has to begin “at the earliest,” even before arrest of an accused. He said judges need to educate not just students but the masses also about it. The CJI was speaking at the valedictory...
Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva has welcomed the Delhi’s RERA decision to withdraw its September 2023 notification due to which property registration had stalled.Delhi BJP chief who had last week condemned the Delhi’s Real Estate Regulatory Authority’s notification of September 2023 & demanded its withdrawal.Sachdeva thanked the Lt. Governor of Delhi for pursuing the matter...