NEW DELHI: The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, under the Union ministry of culture, has launched a yearlong programme to sensitise the younger generation to the loss of civil liberties and national resilience. The agenda commemorates 50 years since the Emergency, imposed by then PM Indira Gandhi on June 25, 1975.The nationwide exhibitions…
NEW DELHI: Without naming Pakistan, India on Tuesday called on Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member states to hold accountable the perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors of acts of cross-border terrorism, and to help bring them to justice.During his intervention at the SCO meeting of top security officials in Beijing, national security advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi NEW DELHI: Calling the imposition of Emergency on India “the darkest chapters in India’s history,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the values enshrined in the Constitution were set aside, and several people were jailed at that time; it was as if the Congress at that time placed democracy under arrest….
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down the plea of an Army commando who claimed to have participated in Operation Sindoor and sought exemption from surrendering after being convicted and sentenced to ten year jail term in dowry death of his wife.A bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and K Vinod Chandran said that it…
A brilliant Bombay-born engineer helped build America’s deadliest ghost in the sky. Then he betrayed it. Sold its secrets to China. Decades later, the same B-2 stealth bombers he helped perfect unleashed bunker busters on Iran’s nuclear facilities on June 22.Noshir Sheriarji Gowadia, now 81, sits behind bars in Colorado’s Florence, serving a 32-year sentence…
NEW DELHI: Defence ministry has inked 13 contracts worth Rs 1,982 crore for fast-track acquisition of air defence missiles, kamikaze drones, counter-drone systems and other equipment to bolster the Army’s operational readiness after Operation Sindoor against Pakistan last month.These contracts were inked specially to augment the Army’s counter-terrorism capabilities under the fifth phase of the…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday said one-time settlement (OTS) at the time of divorce, under which a man pays the woman a lump sum as life-long maintenance expenses, would not include the money needed for bringing up children born during subsistence of the marriage.A bench of Justices K V Viswanathan and N Kotiswar Singh…
NEW DELHI: On the eve of the 50th anniversary of imposition of Emergency by Indira Gandhi in 1975, home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said it was an attempt to turn a multi-party democracy into a dictatorship as he hit out at DMK, socialists and others who have joined hands with Congress, saying they were…
NEW DELHI: The Rajya Sabha secretariat has verified signatures of 45 of the 54 MPs on a notice for a motion to remove Justice Shekhar Yadav of Allahabad high court over his “hate speech”, while nine MPs are yet to do so. Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram’s signature verification was received by RS Secretariat on…
MUMBAI: Even as Maharashtra govt issued a govt resolution (GR) on Monday clarifying that SC, ST, and OBC reservations will not apply to minority colleges, officials are still allotting seats under the altered seat matrix in minority colleges. Those in the know have raised serious doubts about whether the first FYJC merit list will be…