NEW DELHI: AAP Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha on Monday sharply criticised the functioning of toll plazas, arguing that commuters face excessive taxation, poor road conditions and long queues despite paying multiple charges. Raising the issue in the Upper House, he said the situation amounted to “legalised loot” and urged the government to revisit tolling…
NEW DELHI: All India Trinamool Congress MP Sugata Roy on Monday interrupted Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his address on Vande Mataram in the Lok Sabha over the choice of words he used to refer to the composer of the national song, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.During his speech, the Prime Minister, on one occasion, referred to…
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and accused him of using his speech during the Lok Sabha discussion on “Vande Mataram” to “rewrite history” and give a “political colour” to the debate. During the day-long discussion on 150 years of Vande Mataram, Congress deputy leader Gaurav Gogoi said…
NEW DELHI: The aviation minister K Rammohan Naidu vowed in Rajya Sabha on Monday that the government will take “very, very strict action” against Indigo over the recent fiasco to “set an example” across the industry.Speaking during question hour, Naidu said the disruption was a result of IndiGo’s internal lapses. Blaming the carrier for failing…
Mike Andrews (Source: X/ANI) Mike Andrews, lead lawyer representing families of victims of the Ahmedabad Air India crash said on Monday that his team has signed up 130 families and is continuing investigations on their behalf.Speaking to news agency ANI, Andrews said survivor accounts indicated the aircraft’s lights flickered off and on before turning green,…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a fierce attack on the Congress in the Lok Sabha during a special debate marking 150 years of Vande Mataram, accusing the party of repeatedly compromising on the national song — from the freedom movement to the years after Independence. Framing the discussion around what he described as…
Bihar CM Nitish Kuma with his son Nishant Kumar (File photo) NEW DELHI: Posters urging Nishant Kumar, son of Bihar chief minister and Janata Dal (United) president Nitish Kumar, to lead the party appeared outside the JD(U) office in Patna on Monday, days after the ruling National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) landslide win in the Bihar…
In an era where global powers are flexing their nuclear muscles and dormant arsenals hum with renewed urgency, India stands at a perilous crossroads: should it reignite the fire of nuclear testing to assert its strategic sovereignty, or maintain the delicate restraint that has balanced diplomacy and deterrence for decades? The shadow of India’s 1998…
Representative image (ANI Photo) NEW DELHI: India’s push to expand medical education into underserved districts has entered a new phase, with the Centre revealing in the Lok Sabha that 11 new medical colleges have received in-principle approval under a Public–Private Partnership (PPP) model. These colleges will come up by upgrading district hospitals — a shift…
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday warned of a “strict and decisive” action against Bangladeshi and Rohingya “infiltrators” in the state. He advised the state residents to ensure that the “identity of any individual is thoroughly verified before employing them in domestic or business activities.““My esteemed residents of the state, The…