The White House on Monday dismissed concerns over the health of democracy in India and said anybody who happens to go to New Delhi can see that for themselves. Hitting out at Rahul Gandhi over his recent statements during his US visit, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday said that the remarks of the White...
Delhi police today collected documents and questioned BJP MP Brij Bhushan’s associates in Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda district in connection with the wrestlers’ case, said the police. No one was detained. In other news, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal is scheduled to meet Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow tomorrow to seek support on the matter of...
World Environment day 2023: India is moving ahead with a clear roadmap for environment protection and climate change, while maintaining a balance between present requirements and future vision, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday. Speaking on the occasion of the World Environment Day, he said if India has expanded its 4G and 5G telecom...
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday said every scheme of the Narendra Modi government is important for the self-reliance of the poor, as he lauded the PM SVANidhi scheme under which street vendors are granted bank loans. “Before 2014, the poor did not have bank accounts. Today more than 48 crore poor people...
Sakshi Malik on Monday denied withdawing from the ongoing wrestlers’ protest against ex-WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. However, she has joined back her position in the Northern Railway. The development comes two days after the wrestlers met Home Minister Amit Shah at his residence. The meeting was held late on Saturday as the wrestlers raised...
BHAGALPUR: In a major setback to the ongoing construction of the four-lane SultanganjAguani Ghat bridge across the Ganga in , its super structure connecting Sultanganjin Bhagalpur with Khagaria collapsed Sunday evening. According to sources, at least 30slabs of several pillars, including pillar nos. 9, 10 and 11, measuring around 100ft, collapsed.The estimated cost of the...
The BJP will have a “very comfortable victory” in next year’s parliamentary elections and will win 330 seats, party leader and Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Friday. The BJP won 303 seats out of 543 in the last Lok Sabha elections in 2019. “I think you are not looking at just a victory...
At least 288 people were killed and several hundreds injured after a three-train collision in Odisha’s Balasore district, officials said Saturday. Horrific scenes at the crash site saw overturned bogies and smashed coaches with bloodstained debris. The incident involving the Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express, Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express and a goods train, is considered as one of the deadliest train...
Cape Town: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday took a swipe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remarks in the US, saying that he refrains from indulging in politics when he goes abroad and will argue “vigorously” on his return to India. While not naming Rahul Gandhi, Mr Jaishankar said, “I may differ strongly...
DAYS AFTER they threatened to throw their medals into the Ganga, and the night before their five-day deadline for action against Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh expired, a delegation of the protesting wrestlers met Union Home Minister Amit Shah at his official residence in the Capital late Saturday. The...