GUWAHATI: “Our mourning is not yet over, our tears have not yet dried, our wounds have not yet healed – we cannot dance with joy.” This declaration from Imphal Hmar Displaced People Committee captures the defiance of Kuki-Zo groups who said they will boycott events tied to PM Narendra Modi’s likely Sept 13 visit to…
NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge co-ngratulated BJP’s candidate C P Radhakrishnan for winning the VP election, even as he reminded the incoming Vice-President that the high office needed to be revitalised to reflect independence, and urged him to accommodate the opposition and not yield to govt pressure.He chose the occasion to underline that the…
NEW DELHI: Almost 50 days after his resignation, former Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar broke his silence to congratulate his successor C P Radhakrishnan, saying that the office of the VP would attain greater glory with his vast experience.This was Dhankhar’s first public statement since demitting office on July 21 – day one of the monsoon session…
NEW DELHI: Celebrations were expected in the BJP-led NDA camp, given the need to ensure a clean victory of a diehard saffronite after the experience with the ex-VP. The result belied repeated claims by opposition candidate B Sudershan Reddy that many in the governing column would heed their conscience and support him.Celebrations erupted at the…
NEW DELHI: The World Health Organization (WHO) has included popular weight-loss drugs like Semaglutide and Tirzepatide, sold in India under the brand name Wegovy and Mounjaro, respectively, in its Model List of Essential Medicines (EML).This is important because the WHO’s model list of essential medicines serves as a basis for public sector procurement, supply of…
Supreme Court has reiterated that proceedings initiated to review a judgment should not be confused with appeal proceedings. A bench of Justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and S V N Bhatti cautioned that courts ought not mix up review jurisdiction with appellate jurisdiction. It said that a review petition has a limited purpose and could not be…
Five members of a family, including two children, died and three were injured after a landslide struck two houses in Himachal Pradesh’s Kullu on Tuesday. All the victims were asleep when the landslide smashed the houses in Shamarni village around 1.30 am. Locals rushed to the site and managed to rescue three people from the…
The deadline for civil construction work for Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya has been extended by six months to March 2026. The tentative date to mount the 44-foot-long dhwaj (flag post) over the temple has been set for Nov 25, Ram Temple Construction Committee chairman, Nripendra Mishra, told reporters Tuesday at the start of three-day-long…
NEW DELHI: Observing that issuing summons to any person by a court on the basis of a frivolous or vexatious complaint is very serious as it tarnishes the image of the person, Supreme Court has said that in such cases HCs should intervene to protect the person by quashing the case as it would do…
NEW DELHI: Kerala govt on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that governors must play a collaborative role with state govts on bills passed by legislatures, and said they must follow the nuanced yet non-confrontationist approach of Arif Mohd Khan – the present governor of Bihar who was Kerala governor from Sept 2019 to Jan 2025.For…