Sharad Pawar, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief, met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the latter’s residence. The meeting last 50 minutes, sources said. “Rajya Sabha MP Shri Sharad Pawar met PM Narendra Modi,” the Prime Minister’s Office tweeted, along with a photo of the two leaders meeting. The...
The Congress’s Punjab In-Charge, Harish Rawat, was today flown into Chandigarh in a state government chopper to meet Chief Minister Amarinder Singh even as the rebellion in party’s unit there continued to simmer. The senior leader arrival came hours after indications that cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu may be given...
New Delhi: States must not allow the movement of devotees undertaking the ‘Kanwar yatra’ due to the pandemic situation, the Centre told the Supreme Court today during a hearing on the matter. Instead, states should develop a system to make the holy water from Ganga available to the devotees through tankers,...
Investing huge sums into top quality infrastructure will lead to a high trajectory of growth, but it is a difficult choice to make if resources are scarce, the Chief Executive of the government think tank NITI Aayog, Amitabh Kant, told NDTV. The government has been battling criticism over...
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and leaders of other opposition parties have commended the Supreme Court terming India’s sedition law as “colonial”. A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana, while agreeing to look into petitions by the Editors Guild of India and a Major General (retired) challenging...
Vidhisha, Madhya Pradesh: In a major mishap, around 30 people fell into a well in Madhya Pradesh’s Vidisha district on Thursday, police said. The incident happened when the villagers were trying to rescue a boy who had fallen in the well earlier. As per the officials, the roof of...
India and China have agreed that solving the border row should be prioritised as “a prolongation of the existing situation was not in the interest of either side”, the government said today in a statement after a meeting between Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang...
DMK MP Dayanidhi Maran in a tweet thread narrated how he ran into his parliamentary colleague and BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy – and why he thought it was an interesting meet. The DMK leader titled the thread “A Flight to Remember.” Mr Maran had boarded an IndiGo flight...
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and some of his parliamentary colleagues walked out of a Defence Committee meeting after they were not allowed to discuss border issues with China, sources have said. The meeting was scheduled at 3 pm today, they said. A request by Mr Gandhi and the Congress...
Washington: President Joe Biden on Tuesday (local time) announced his intent to nominate 11 individuals including two Indian-Americans to serve in key roles. As per the White House statement, the nominated persons are – Gabe Camarillo, Alan Estevez, Jeff Lane Flake, Kent Doyle Logsdon, Lisa Wang, Chester John Culver,...