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New Delhi: The government of India relaxes the rule for international passengers by scrapping the requirement to fill the self-declaration forms for Covid vaccination for people flying into India from foreign countries. Filling out the Air Suvidha form will no longer be necessary, the government said. The decision has come amid a declining number of … Read more
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked the Gujarat High Court to time-to-time monitor the probe and other aspects related to the Morbi bridge collapse incident that claimed over 140 lives. The Public Interest Litigation filed by advocate Vishal Tiwari was heard by a two-judge bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice Hima Kohli. … Read more
Jharkhand: A 45-year-old man was killed in a blast of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), suspected to have been planted by Maoists, in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district, police said on Monday. The incident took place in Rengrahatu village in the Tonto area on Sunday when the victim, identified as a local villager named Chetan Koda, … Read more
New Delhi: An advocate has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Delhi High Court seeking a transfer of investigation from the Delhi police to the CBI in the murder of Shraddha Walker, which has captured the nation’s attention. Joshina Tuli, the petitioner said in the PIL that the Delhi Police have revealed minute … Read more
New Delhi: After Supreme Court ordered the release of three convicts sentenced to death in the 2012 Chhawla gang rape-murder case, the Arvind-Kejriwal-led Delhi government is set to challenge the order. VK Saxena, Delhi Lieutenant Governor has approved Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) request to file a review petition challenging the acquittal of the three men. READ … Read more
Mumbai: Asia’s richest man Gautam Adani today said India, which took 58 years to become a trillion-dollar economy, will add an equivalent sum to GDP every 12-18 months and will be the world’s second-largest economy by 2050. Speaking at the 21st World Congress of Accountants, he said back-to-back global crises have challenged several assumptions, including … Read more
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said Surat will emerge among the world’s safest and most convenient diamond trading hubs once the Diamond Research and Mercantile (DREAM) City project is completed. He said Surat has progressed rapidly over the last 20 years while recalling the struggle to get an airport for the city when … Read more
New Delhi: Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has said that India will buy crude oil from whichever country it wanted in regards to questions being raised about purchases from Russia, whose western buyers have either stopped buying from it or are reducing their orders as punishment for invading Ukraine. On the 2-million barrel a day … Read more
Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday met CPM leader Sitaram Yechury at his office in Delhi. Nitish Kumar denied speculation on his Prime Ministerial candidature, saying that “I am not even a claimant, I don’t even desire it.” “We are together, that is why I am coming here”, said Nitish on meeting CPM leader … Read more
New Delhi: Former US President Donald Trump, said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “doing a terrific job” and that India “has never had a better friend than me” while giving the broadest hint yet that he may be running for office again in 2024. Trump in an interview with NDTV stated, “Everyone wants me to … Read more
Surat: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said India has become the fifth largest economy in the world and this is not an ordinary achievement. “We need to maintain this enthusiasm,” Modi said while virtually addressing beneficiaries of various government schemes and those present at a medical camp organized in Olpad area of Gujarat’s Surat city. … Read more
New Delhi: India is expected to host over 200 G20 meetings during its yearlong Presidency of the influential group which will culminate with an annual summit on September 9 and 10 next year. India will assume the Presidency of the G20 for one year from December 1, 2022, to 30 November 2023. “Under its Presidency, India … Read more
Chennai: DMK leader A Raja’s remarks on caste at a meeting here have sparked a controversy, with the BJP accusing him of spewing hatred. Mr. Raja, Nilgiris MP and DMK’s deputy general secretary said Shudras were insulted in Manusmrithi and denied equality, education, employment, and entry into temples. “You are a Shudra till you remain a Hindu. You are … Read more
SCO Summit: The Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine crisis have created impediments for global supply chains and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) should create trusted and resilient supply chains to foster economic recovery, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday. Addressing a session of the SCO Summit in Samarkand, Modi said the members of the grouping … Read more
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu has given her assent to the legislation of Haryana under which every child marriage that has been solemnised will be considered as “void ab initio” (having no legal effect from inception), thus making a marital relationship between a man and a girl aged between 15 and 18 years illegal. The Prohibition … Read more