New Delhi: As the Election Commission (EC) readies to hold high-stakes Assembly polls in five states, its senior officers, led by deputy election commissioners, have started taking stock of preparations there, with a poll authority team currently on a visit to Uttarakhand. Commission officers will...
Washington: The Trump administration has moved to scrap a rule that lets H-1B and other skilled foreign workers routinely win extensions when their facts have not changed, and has made permanent a separate rule ending automatic renewals of work permits for spouses of H-1B workers...
New Delhi: The city police Tuesday told the Delhi High Court that the decision to denotify Jantar Mantar as the designated protest site was taken pursuant to the directions of the Supreme Court. Additional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma made the submission before Justice Amit Mahajan,...
New Delhi: The opposition INDIA bloc and civil society Tuesday vowed to unitedly fight for "restoration of the democratic process in the country", with Rahul Gandhi asserting that the political and people's resistance would continue and will triumph. Addressing reporters after deliberations with INDIA bloc...
New Delhi: Union Minister of State L Murugan Tuesday resigned from the Modi government, saying he wished to return to strengthen the BJP in Tamil Nadu. In a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Murugan, Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs,...
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Tuesday reiterated that the Union Territory of Ladakh remains an "integral and inalienable part of India" and no amount of denial by the Chinese side can change the fact. Responding to media queries regarding comments made by...
Indian airlines cancel flights to Saudi Arabian cities till Oct 17 New Delhi: IndiGo, Air India Express, Air India and Akasa Air Tuesday announced cancelling flights connecting Saudi Arabian cities till October 17 in view of the evolving situation in the Gulf country. There have been...
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday accused Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi of allegedly "manhandling" a female journalist during the INDIA Bloc's march a day earlier, while the Congress hit back claiming that the BJP was "scripting narratives"...
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...
Defeat in Ayodhya in 2024, where the Ram temple was built with much pomp, appears to have deeply shaken the...
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One of the infirmities that democratically elected governments the world over suffer from is the extra-constitutional powers that captains of...
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At a time when there are nationwide protests demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar over the...
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By Aakar Patel In 5 March 2021, the Press Information Bureau of the Government of India put out a statement...
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