NEW DELHI: Amid disruption of proceedings over SIR, the chair in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday said videos of expunged portions of speeches should not be shared on social media. When the Mines and Minerals (Amendment) Bill was being taken up for discussion, BJP’s Radha Mohan Das Agrawal raised the issue of leader of opposition Mallikarjun…
NEW DELHI: Govt told Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that in 2024-25, India collected 1,46,01,147 units of blood, more than the annual requirement of 14.6 million units. This was 15% more than the amount of blood collected in 2023, which was 1,26,95,363 units.In India, voluntary blood donation is around 70% while the rest of the donation…
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah chaired a meeting of the parliamentary consultative committee for the ministry of home affairs (MHA) on ‘Disaster Management and Capacity Building’ here Tuesday and said that a strategy is being formulated to deal with cloudbursts and landslides.The announcement comes after two recent incidents of cloudbursts resulting in more…
PM Modi meets Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi NEW DELHI: The recent Sino-Indian detente seemed set for a significant step forward with PM Narendra Modi saying Tuesday that bilateral ties have made “positive and steady” progress guided by respect for each other’s interests and sensitivities, and accepting President Xi Jinping’s official invitation to visit China…
Justice (retired) BS Reddy with INDIA bloc leaders NEW DELHI: Dubbing the vice-presidential poll as an “ideological battle” to counter the assault on constitutional values, the joint opposition announced Tuesday former Supreme Court judge B Sudershan Reddy as its candidate to take on NDA’s C P Radhakrishnan, underlining that Reddy is a “consistent and courageous…
Crowd gathered at murder spot VADODARA: A former Congress councillor was stabbed to death during his morning walk in Bakrol area of Gujarat’s Anand on Tuesday.A passerby discovered the body on the walking track at 8.30am and informed police. The victim Iqbal Malek’s brother, Irfan Hussain Yusufmiyan Malek, has filed a police complaint.“As per Irfan,…
Chennai: Two days ago, Govt Chengalpet Medical College and Hospital assistant professor Dr S Manikumar, posted a WhatsApp story announcing that he had registered for organ donation, along with a photo of the pledge certificate issued by the Union health ministry. On Monday, a team of doctors from the same hospital harvested his cornea, minutes…
NEW DELHI: “We have been friends for over 40 years; back then, our hair was black,” PM Narendra Modi recalled at the felicitation of NDA vice-presidential candidate CP Radhakrishnan (CPR) during NDA parliamentary party meeting on Parliament premises on Tuesday.The PM expressed happiness at the enthusiasm among allies for “CPR” and urged opposition to support…
Home minister Amit Shah (PTI) NEW DELHI: In a significant move, home minister Amit Shah will on Wednesday move a set of three bills providing for mandatory resignation or removal of the Prime Minister, chief ministers and ministers at the Centre and in states/UTs, if they have spent 30 consecutive days under arrest or detention,…
A 50-year-old Indiana woman was arrested in the District of Columbia (DC) after allegedly making a series of violent threats against United States President Donald Trump through social media platforms, the US Attorney’s Office, DC, said in a statement.Nathalie Rose Jones of Lafayette, Indiana, was taken into custody on Saturday, August 16, and charged with…
