NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing on a plea challenging the preventive detention of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk to March 17. The petition filed by his wife has been listed 24 times over the last five months, but the hearing has remained inconclusive. The activist was taken under preventive detention on Sep…
NEW DELHI: The Cabinet on Tuesday approved expansion of a highway project and two multi-tracking railway projects worth Rs 8,313 crore in Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Jharkhand. It also approved the proposal for declaration of Madurai airport in Tamil Nadu as an international airport.Information and broadcasting minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the Cabinet gave go…
NEW DELHI: The governing NDA on Tuesday came down heavily on Rahul Gandhi over the no-confidence motion against Speaker Om Birla, with parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju saying the leader of the opposition was attacking democratic institutions because of the realisation that there is no way he could lead his party to win an election.Rijiju…
KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee Tuesday called off her protest launched on March 6 against “forced deletion” of names from voters’ list, hailing the SC order on Bengal SIR as a “people’s victory” as it “opened a closed door” for those stripped of voting rights.The sit-in at Esplanade continued for 114 hours, during which the…
NEW DELHI: During the discussion on the resolution for removal of Om Birla from the Speaker’s post, Congress member Gaurav Gogoi on Tuesday said Kiren Rijiju would be remembered as the parliamentary affairs minister who interrupted the opposition the most. His remark drew a swift response, not from Rijiju, but home minister Amit Shah.Shah said…
NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha on Tuesday took up the opposition’s resolution on removal of Speaker Om Birla amid a heated debate over who should preside while the House discussed him. Opening the debate, Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi accused Birla of partisan behaviour. He said the Speaker made “baseless” allegations against women opposition MPs and…
NEW DELHI: Cabinet Tuesday approved the Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Bill, a statutory intervention purportedly aimed at retaining the provision for deputation of IPS officers at the level of inspector general (IG) and deputy inspector general (DIG) in CAPFs.The Bill, likely to be brought before Parliament soon, comes despite last year’s SC order…
NEW DELHI: Cabinet Tuesday gave its approval for restructuring and reorienting the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) and extended its timeline to Dec 2028 with an enhanced total outlay of around Rs 8.7 lakh crore.The focus the restructured JJM 2.0 would be on service delivery, supported by drinking water governance and institutional ecosystem for sustainable piped…
NEW DELHI: Cabinet Tuesday approved a proposal to amend the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019, seeking to expand the definition of transgender persons in what is being cited as an attempt to make the law more “inclusive” so that all bona fide persons receive benefits and protection.There has been debate over the implementation…
NEW DELHI: India’s inbound international student numbers are projected to grow by about 8% annually from a base of around 58,000 in 2025, signalling a steady shift in global student mobility as visa curbs and rising costs in traditional Western destinations push many applicants to explore alternatives. The trend, outlined in the latest QS Global…
