Tharoor said the very composition of the foreign outreach teams after Op Sindoor, featuring MPs from diverse parties and faiths, was a potent message in itself New Delhi : Disregarding Congress brass’s frowns, its MP Shashi Tharoor has said PM Narendra Modi’s energy, dynamism and willingness to engage remains a “prime asset” for India on…
BELAGAVI: In a fresh blow to Karnataka’s Congress govt, which is battling dissent, senior Karnataka MLA Raju Kage accused govt on Monday of administrative collapse and threatened to resign over stalled development works in his constituency in Belagavi district.Kage claimed his ordeal was more severe than that of fellow Congress legislator BR Patil, who recently…
NEW DELHI: The statistics ministry will conduct a household income survey in 2026 and it has set up a technical advisory group (TEG) for it under the chairmanship of former executive director at the IMF Surjit Bhalla.This is the first of its kind household income survey that the ministry will undertake to get a better…
NEW DELHI: In the wake of the situation in the Middle East, Indigo on Tuesday issued a travel advisory and said that they are considering the safest available flight paths to ensure secure and seamless travel. In a post on X, “As airports across the Middle East gradually reopen, we are prudently and progressively resuming…
NEW DELHI: The two Kashmiris arrested by National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday not only harboured the three Pahalgam attackers for two days in their ‘dhok’ (hut) in Hill Area, located around 2 km from Baisaran, before the latter headed out to massacre 26 civilians but also tipped them off on the deployment of security…
NEW DELHI: Should an individual’s eligibility to OBC quota be solely determined by his father’s caste? A Supreme Court bench of Justices K V Viswanathan and N Kotishwar Singh agreed to examine the issue raised by a single OBC mother for her son.Significantly, additional solicitor general S D Sanjay, representing the Centre, also favoured the…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court stressed Monday that “hate speech” is not covered under freedom of expression, even as it restrained police from four states from arresting Wazahat Khan, who was instrumental in the arrest of social media influencer Sharmistha Panoli for her communal posts on Pahalgam killings. FIRs have been lodged against him for…
LUCKNOW: A Delhi-based company contracted to operate a toll plaza on NH-19 in UP is under investigation for allegedly sealing a 15-year lease by fraudulently paying Rs 100 as stamp duty instead of the stipulated Rs 63 crore.The lease, signed on March 18, 2023, entitles the firm to collect toll for a 72.64-km stretch of…
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand HC has put the upcoming panchayat polls on hold, pointing out that the gazette notification on reservation rules had not been issued by govt. A division bench of Chief Justice G Narendar and Justice Alok Mahra sought a detailed explanation from the authorities in this regard.The court pointed out that the state EC…
Even for the top 5% of urban families by income in Maharashtra, buying a house in Mumbai would take more than 100 years of saving to fund. In Haryana and Odisha, it would take over 50 years of saving by the richest 5% to buy a house in their biggest cities. Chandigarh, by contrast, is…
