External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday (July 10) will file his nomination for Rajya Sabha from Gujarat’s Gandhinagar. Gujarat BJP general secretary Pradeepsinh Vaghela said Jaishankar is scheduled to file his nomination form on Monday at around noon, news agency PTI reported. The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the schedule for the election on 10 Rajya Sabha seats across three states– Goa, Gujarat and West Bengal...
Monsoon fury disrupted normal life across several North Indian states including Delhi, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. Extremely heavy rainfall has caused waterlogging, swept cars away and washed away bridges in several states. India received 81% above normal rainfall on Sunday while Delhi recorded the highest rainfall in four decades. According to the weather department,...
Delhi BJP leaders Sunday criticised the Arvind Kejriwal government in the national capital over waterlogging in the city for the second consecutive day after heavy rains and demanded resignation of Public Works Department (PWD) minister Atishi. Virendra Sachdeva, Delhi BJP president said the city is flooded due to poor infrastructure development under the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)...
Union defence minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday chaired a ‘Chintan Shivir’ of the ministry at which “several innovative proposals emerged” to enhance indigenisation content in domestic defence manufacturing Union defence minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday took stock of a raft of defence-related issues, including proposals to boost domestic defence manufacturing, increasing self-reliance, bringing in more...
Instagram, owned by Meta Platforms Inc., has officially introduced Threads, a new application explicitly developed to directly compete with Twitter. This launch poses the most significant challenge to Elon Musk’s ailing social media platform to date. As reported by Bloomberg, Threads, the newly unveiled app by Instagram, offers users the ability to share text, links, and engage in...
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 meeting has come amid a heightened buzz about a likely Cabinet reshuffle following a series of meetings of the ruling BJP’s top brass. Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a meeting of the Union Council of Ministers on Monday at the newly built convention centre at the Pragati Maidan, which will host the G20 summit...
In what is seen as a massive political development ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar on Sunday was sworn in as deputy chief minister in the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government. Pawar, who will now share the deputy CM post with Bharatiya Janata Party’s Devendra Fadnavis, took the...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a ride in Delhi Metro to reach the valedictory ceremony of DU centenary celebrations. Amid tight security preparations, PM Modi swiped his card at a metro station and boarded the train. The Prime Minister can also be seen interacting with his fellow passengers while on his way to the Delhi University centenary celebrations. In...