NEW DELHI: Congress’ Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said he spoke the truth in Parliament and will not back down even if BJP moves a privilege motion or files a police case against him.In a video, Gandhi said Congress and the country fought for food security, but PM Narendra Modi has betrayed the farmers by “selling…
NEW DELHI: Opposition MPs Thursday staged a protest in the Parliament complex over the India-US interim trade deal, accusing Modi govt of surrendering Indian interests. They also lent support to trade unions’ nationwide bandh against the newly-notified labour codes.Mallikarjun Kharge, T R Baalu, Dharmendra Yadav, K C Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh, Sudama Prasad, among a host…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has issued summonses to industrialist Bina Modi and senior advocate Lalit Bhasin in an assault case filed by her son and Godfrey Phillips India (GPI) executive director Samir Modi, observing that there is sufficient “prima facie material” to proceed against them.Samir had lodged a complaint at Delhi’s Sarita Vihar police…
New Delhi: Observing that the fundamental right to speech and expression did not give anyone the licence to denigrate a citizen or a community, Supreme Court on Thursday disapproved of the title of the film ‘Ghooskhor Pandat’ and made it clear to the producers that it would not allow its release if the name was…
Amidst the voting in Bangladesh, India said Thursday that it stands for free, fair, inclusive, and credible elections in the country. The ministry of external affairs (MEA) also said India had declined Dhaka’s invitation to send observers for the polls.“We should wait for the outcome to see what sort of mandate emerges, and thereafter, we…
NEW DELHI: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said Thursday that the Centre’s fund is not a “free pool of cash that can be used at will”, asserting that every rupee of the taxpayer is accounted for and that there is no denial or stoppage of funds to any state or any scheme. Dismissing opposition charges…
NEW DELHI: The two-day Bharat Bodhan AI Conclave opened here Thursday, bringing policymakers, academics and industry leaders together to chart how AI can be deployed at scale across India’s education system. The conclave follows a closed-door AI roundtable chaired a day earlier by education minister Dharmendra Pradhan with founders of 10 Indian edtech startups.Pradhan said…
NEW DELHI: Potholes claimed 9,438 lives over five years, from 2020 to 2024, according to govt data. Uttar Pradesh alone reported 5,127 of these fatalities, more than half of all pothole-related deaths, while more than half a dozen states and UTs, including Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Goa, and Chandigarh, reported “zero” road crashes, injuries, or deaths…
NEW DELHI: Cabinet is likely to approve over half a dozen infrastructure projects on Friday worth over Rs 40,000 crore, including nearly Rs 19,000 crore road-cum-rail tunnel through Brahmaputra river in poll-bound Assam. This will be one of the biggest govt funded projects in the highway sector.South Block will host the last Cabinet meeting on…
JAMMU: Facing charges of irregularities in the procurement of 133 luxury vehicles in FY 24-25, Jammu & Kashmir govt on Thursday in a written reply in the assembly denied the allegations and asserted the purchases by various depts and PSUs were strictly in accordance with the prescribed norms.“There has been no deviation,” transport minister Satish…