New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday issued notice to the Centre and the Election Commission of India (ECI) on a public interest litigation challenging the blanket immunity granted to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and other Election Commissioners under Section 16 of the Chief Election...
Kochi: The Kerala High Court Tuesday declined to grant an interim stay of its single-judge direction to the VACB to lodge an FIR against former Keralam Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and others in the alleged CMRL bribery case. A bench of Justices K Natarajan and...
Beijing: China Tuesday strongly opposed India's decision to assign standardised names to 28 strategic locations and geographical features in Ladakh, claiming that the areas belonged to it. China has never recognised the so-called 'Union Territory of Ladakh' unilaterally and illegally established by India, Foreign Ministry...
New Deli: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Tuesday said the rupee has depreciated "significantly" over the past year and a half, and the RBI will continue its efforts to prevent excessive volatility in the domestic currency. Speaking at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum 2026, Sitharaman said...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court deferred to Thursday the hearing on pleas related to protests, closure of metro stations and disruptions in train services ahead of the October 10 agitations against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar due to the indisposition of Justice V Mohana. On...
New Delhi: Members of a student organisation took out a march from Connaught Place Tuesday, demanding immediate release of detained Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) leaders and opposing the de-notification of Jantar Mantar as a designated protest site. The protesters, associated with student organisation Disha, called...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday said India's economic growth was anchored in strong fundamentals and a sustained reform drive, declaring that the country sought to expand its global economic influence through shared prosperity rather than at the expense of other nations. "We do...
Sofi: Drones struck two ships in the Black Sea off Bulgaria, sinking one and prompting emergency rescue operations, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said early Tuesday. One crew member from the sunken vessel was rescued, he said, without providing details on the others aboard. Rescuers evacuated...
New Delhi: A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging restrictions on protests at Delhi's Jantar Mantar and the designation of alternative sites for public demonstrations. Delhi Police Commissioner Anurag Kumar's standing order of October 11 de-notified Jantar Mantar and designated Ramlila Ground,...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday stayed further proceedings in a defamation case before a trial court in Maharashtra against Congress MP Rahul Gandhi over his remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2019. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Aparesh Kumar Singh issued...
One of the infirmities that democratically elected governments the world over suffer from is the extra-constitutional powers that captains of...
Read moreDetails
At a time when there are nationwide protests demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar over the...
Read moreDetails
By Aakar Patel In 5 March 2021, the Press Information Bureau of the Government of India put out a statement...
Read moreDetails
By Dilip Cherian For a service that has perfected the art of surviving governments, political regimes, and the occasional scandal,...
Read moreDetails