India decides to fence entire border with Myanmar
New Delhi: India has decided to fence the entire 1,643-km-long India-Myanmar border, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced on Tuesday. The move could virtually put an end to the Free Movement Regime (FMR) prevalent along the porous border. The FMR allows people residing close to the India-Myanmar border to venture 16 km into each other’s […]
SpiceJet to operate Haj flights from Srinagar, Gaya, 5 other cities
New Delhi: SpiceJet on Friday said it has secured rights to operate Haj flights from seven cities, including Srinagar, Gaya and Guwahati. The crisis-hit airline, which is working on revival, said Haj flights have been a significant revenue generator for it. “In the current fiscal year, SpiceJet garnered a revenue of Rs 337 crore from […]
Parliament’s Budget Session begins today, last of present Lok Sabha
New Delhi: The Budget Session of Parliament, the last of the present Lok Sabha, begins on Wednesday with an address by President Droupadi Murmu to a joint sitting, as the government sought cooperation of opposition parties to ensure the proceedings run smoothly. All eyes will be on the President’s address and the interim budget Finance […]
Shun practice of mentioning caste or religion of litigants in cases: SC
New Delhi: The practice of mentioning caste or religion of litigants in court cases must be shunned, the Supreme Court has said while directing its registry and all other courts to stop it immediately. A bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Ahsanuddin Amanullah directed all high courts to ensure that the caste or religion of […]
Nitish Kumar back in NDA; takes oath as Bihar CM for record ninth time
Patna: JD(U) president Nitish Kumar on Sunday took oath as Chief Minister of Bihar for a record ninth time after a dramatic volte-face, ditching the Mahagathbandhan and the opposition bloc INDIA and forming a new government with the BJP, which he had dumped less than 18 months ago. Kumar’s latest crossover, his fifth in a […]
India records 159 new COVID-19 infections
New Delhi: India has registered a single-day rise of 159 new COVID-19 infections and the count of active cases of the disease stands at 1,623 in the country, the Union health ministry said on Saturday. One fatality due to the infection was reported in Kerala in a span of 24 hours, according to the data […]
LS polls: BJP appoints election in-charges, co-in-charges for 23 states, UTs
New Delhi: The BJP on Saturday appointed election in-charges and co-in-charges for 23 states and Union territories in view of the Lok Sabha polls this year. BJP national general secretary Vinod Tawde has been made the election in-charge for Bihar, while BJP Rajya Sabha member and former Jharkhand unit chief Deepak Prakash will be the […]
2024 LS polls: 96 crore citizens, including 47 crore women, eligible to cast vote
New Delhi: Over 96 crore people, including 47 crore women, are eligible to cast vote in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, for which more than 12 lakh polling booths would be set up across India. Over 1.73 crore of those eligible to vote are in the age group of 18 to 19 years, according to […]
PM Modi asks young voters to defeat ‘parivarwadi’ parties
Seeks suggestions for BJP manifesto New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday pitched for electing a stable government with a strong majority and asked young voters to defeat family-run parties in the Lok Sabha polls, asserting that their votes will decide the course of India’s direction and approach. In a virtual address to young voters […]
INDIA bloc just a photo-op, will not stand anywhere: BJP
Srinagar: The INDIA bloc is just a photo-op and will not stand anywhere in the country, the BJP said on Thursday, a day after TMC asserted that it would go solo in the elections in West Bengal. “Our leaders had already said that it (bloc) was a photo session and nothing else. They clicked the […]