Aftermath of Cyclone Ditwah in Sri Lanka NEW DELHI: India has strongly denied Pakistan media reports that it refused to grant airspace to Pakistani flights carrying humanitarian aid to Sri Lanka.Official sources said that given the fact that the request pertained to humanitarian assistance for Sri Lanka, India expeditiously cleared the request and intimated “Govt…
NEW DELHI: Indian defence PSUs Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL), Bharat Electronics (BEL) and Mazagon Docks (MDL) continue to figure in the global top 100 arms-producing companies, but together accounted for just a paltry 1.1% of the global arms sales last year.Global arms revenues rose sharply by 5.9% to reach a record $679 billion in 2024, with…
NEW DELHI: Accusing PM Narendra Modi of “delivering dramabazi” on the first day of winter session of Parliament, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said BJP govt has shattered parliamentary conventions over the past 11 years by refusing to debate issues of public concern and by bulldozing bills detrimental to the common man, like the farm laws….
NEW DELHI: Seeking to ensure that prices of sin goods such as tobacco products and pan masala do not fall after withdrawal of GST compensation cess, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday moved two bills that will empower govt to levy excise duty on tobacco and tobacco products, while imposing health and national security cess…
NEW DELHI: SC on Monday sought the Centre’s response to a suggestion for allowing Sonali, a pregnant woman who was deported to Bangladesh for allegedly being a citizen of the neighbouring country, and her 5-year-old son to return to India and getting her admitted to hospital.Responding to a plea by Sanjay Hegde, counsel for Sonali’s…
NEW DELHI: Opposition parties disrupted proceedings in Lok Sabha and walked out of Rajya Sabha on the first day of the winter session after govt refused to concede their demand to immediately allow a debate on the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls being conducted by Election Commission.They rejected the stand of parliamentary affairs…
India calls for systematic review of scientific and technological developments so that governance keeps pace with innovation, said Jaishankar NEW DELHI: Reaffirming India’s commitment to the full and effective implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention and India’s well-established non-proliferation record, foreign minister S Jaishankar warned against “misuse” of biological weapons by non-State actors saying it’s…
Workers remove the Raj Bhavan signboard in front of the Kerala Governor’s residence in Thiruvananthapuram Monday NEW DELHI: Eight states and a Union territory have changed the name of their governor/lieutenant governor’s house from ‘Raj Bhavan/Raj Niwas’ to ‘Lok Bhavan/Lok Niwas’ following a directive from ministry of home affairs (MHA) to shed the earlier nomenclature…
NEW DELHI: ED has issued show-cause notices to Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan, his chief principal secretary and KIIFB CEO KM Abraham, and former finance minister TM Thomas Issac in an alleged FEMA violations case of Rs 467 crore.ED sources said the CM may not appear in person during the proceedings. The case relates to KIIFB…
‘Those sitting inside Parliament bite, dogs don’t,’ said Cong MP Renuka Chowdhury; BJP MP Jagdambika Pal accused Chowdhury of ‘tamasha’ NEW DELHI: Congress MP Renuka Chowdhury triggered a lot of curiosity and also drew charge of indulging in “tamasha” after she arrived at Parliament complex with a rescued stray dog in her car. “Those sitting…