NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked citizens to share their ideas and suggestions for his Independence Day speech. Posting on social media platform X, the Prime Minister said, “As we approach this year’s Independence Day, I look forward to hearing from my fellow Indians! What themes or ideas would you like to…
NEW DELHI: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Friday announced yet another sop ahead of the upcoming assembly elections, doubling the honorarium of education workers in the state.In a social media post on X, Nitish claimed that cooks, night watchmen, and physical education and health instructors have played a crucial role in strengthening the education…
Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday summoned industrialist Anil Ambani on August 5 in loan fraud case amid probe over bribery, unsecured loans allegations, according to Economic Times.This comes days after the central probing agency conducted simultaneous raids in connection with an alleged money laundering case involving bank loan…
India has taken note of reports that an Islamist group in Dhaka called the ‘Saltanat-e-Bangla’, backed by a Turkish NGO called the ‘Turkish Youth Federation’, has put out a map of the so-called ‘Greater Bangladesh’ that includes parts of India, said foreign minister S Jaishankar.The map was displayed in the Dhaka University. “The Government of…
Mumbai/Pune: It has been painful to endure accusations for 17 years, Lt Col Prasad Purohit told TOI after being acquitted in the Malegaon blast case on Thursday. Purohit, currently stationed at an Army unit in Mumbai, said, “I did not do anything against my country. There is nothing above the nation. How can a serving…
NEW DELHI: The completion of the strategic Zojila Tunnel in Jammu & Kashmir has been pushed back to Feb 2028 due to multiple factors, including the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, a terrorist attack at the Sonamarg Tunnel project, and extreme adverse weather conditions, the road transport and highways ministry informed the Lok Sabha on…
NEW DELHI: In its first-ever enforcement action in Andaman & Nicobar Islands, the ED on Thursday conducted searches at nine locations in Port Blair and two in Kolkata in a money laundering case against a former Congress MP from the island and officials of the Andaman Nicobar State Cooperative (ANSC) Bank for alleged fraud of…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has slammed the West Bengal govt’s decision to deny teachers who had joined universities in West Bengal from other states the benefit of extension of retirement age from 60 to 65 years on the parochial ground that they had not taught in state-domiciled institutions for a continuous period of 10…
NEW DELHIl Parliament proceedings were disrupted on Thursday as opposition parties protested the revision of Bihar’s electoral rolls, while in RS, leader of the House JP Nadda accused them of displaying “double standards” by walking out when home minister Amit Shah started replying to the debate on Operation Sindoor on Wednesday, insisting that a reply…
NEW DELHI: Deciding to call it “vote chori” for better political messaging, the opposition Thursday resolved to keep its collective focus on Special Intensive Review of electoral rolls during the remainder part of the monsoon session. After the discussion on the Pahalgam terror attack, it is set to demand one on SIR, a move that…