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New Delhi: A majority of exit polls have predicted a win for the BJP and its allies in the Maharashtra assembly elections. Many also forecast a victory for the BJP camp in Jharkhand, but some predicted that the INDIA bloc would win. Elections were held in a single phase in Maharashtra on Wednesday (November 20), where […]
New Delhi: On November 18, the Union health ministry released a letter to reporters. It was written by the health secretary to the chief secretaries of all states and union territories in the country on the same day. The letter asked them to take a series of steps to tackle health issues arising out of rising […]
On the eve of the Lok Sabha poll results, both Narendra Modi and Amit Shah gave an unprecedented call urging people to buy shares in the market on the assumption that BJP would win a decisive victory and the stock markets would be on a roll. However, after the results, the stock market crashed over […]
As Maharashtra braces for another fierce electoral showdown, the political landscape is sharply divided between two formidable alliances: the Mahayuti, a coalition led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), an opposition front comprising the Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Sharad Pawar faction, and Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena faction. This […]
Bengaluru: More than 3,200 people dead. As much as 3.2 million hectares of crops damaged, around 2.3 lakh houses and buildings destroyed, and more than 9,400 livestock dead: all due to extreme weather events that occurred on 255 of the 274 days of the first nine months of this year across India. These are some […]
New Delhi: More than 800 academics, students and other concerned citizens have condemned the alleged “vindictive harassment and persecution” of Dr Deepak Malghan by the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B). Malghan, an award-winning scholar, was ‘demoted’ by IIM-B for his social media posts that were deemed critical and in violation of the premier institute’s service […]
In an interview earlier this week, Sam Rose, the senior deputy director of UNRWA affairs in Gaza, spoke with Politico about his increasing despair in relation to the genocide in Gaza, where despite a full year of widely shared atrocities, the world has not yet felt compelled to collectively act to stop it. In Rose’s words, “Everyone’s attention […]
In 2019, the World Economic Forum ranked India mid-table – 68th out of 141 – in terms of competitiveness, based on its Global Competitiveness Index. This ranking was partly due to a major innovation deficit. Although from an innovation point of view, India ranks 35th, this is largely due to the performance of the services sector. […]
(IMAGE: The new ‘Lady Justice’ statue. In the background is the Babri Masjid which stood in Ayodhya till 1992.) It is reported that when our lordships were stuck in a judicial jam while trying to find a way to resolve the Babri Masjid case, god came to their rescue and showed them a bypass. This […]
(IMAGE: Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch. Photo: Securities and Exchange Board of India (GODL-India), GODL-India via Wikimedia Commons) New Delhi: The parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting was postponed on Thursday (October 24) after Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch cited “personal exigencies” to not […]
New Delhi: The door was latched and locked on the outside. There was no nameplate. Ringing a bell got no response. A child’s bicycle stood nearby, clearly a neighbour’s. Vikash Yadav’s last known official address, a first-floor flat in the government housing complex at Andrews Ganj Extension in the national capital, has an air of abandonment. […]
New Delhi: Israel’s military killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who is accused of being a key architect of his organisation’s October 7, 2023 attack in Israel that killed around 1,200 and precipitated the Israel-Hamas war, it announced on Thursday (October 17). In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that it and the Israel Security Agency confirmed […]
(On the left, clockwise from left, Narendra Modi, Lawrence Bishnoi, Ajit Doval and Amit Shah. On the right, clockwise from the bottom, Justin Trudeu, Hardeep Singh Nijjar and Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.) In a set of charges that are surely unprecedented in the history of diplomatic relations between friendly democratic countries, Canada has accused India of […]
New Delhi: Testifying yesterday before an inquiry commission looking into foreign interference in Canada, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reiterated his allegation that the Indian government was involved in the 2023 murder of Khalistan activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar and other acts of violence in the country and provided an account – for the first time so […]
The electoral contests in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir turned out to be bipolar, as expected. But the success of forecasts ends there, as the others could have been more wrong. The Bharatiya Janata Party secured its highest ever majority and third successive victory in Haryana, while the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, where […]
Jagat Prakash Nadda’s tenure as Bharatiya Janata Party president was to end in January last year, but was extended till June 30 this year. The party had to amend its constitution to empower the parliamentary board to take a decision on the new BJP president, “including his or her term and its extension in emergency situations”. It […]
When public universities in India make it to ‘happy’ headlines, it is mostly about the stratospheric pay packets that graduates from IITs and IIMs get from campus interviews. Otherwise, news concerning universities is more often than not about funding drought, excessive politicisation, pernicious mismanagement, creaking infrastructure, brain drain etc. It is widely known, for example, […]
The Supreme Court on Friday (September 13) granted bail to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, on his plea challenging his arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Delhi liquor policy case. A two-judge bench, comprising Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan, pronounced the judgment, which was reserved on September 5, LiveLaw reported. Bail conditions […]
The Union government has approved the inclusion of all senior citizens above the age of 70 under the Ayushman Bharat scheme. The Union cabinet took this major decision on Wednesday (September 11). The scheme is based on an insurance model that provides a cover of Rs 5 lakh every year on a “family basis”. An […]
Union and state government departments appear to have been given the nod to do business with foreign banks located in tax havens which who have a history that can at best be called dodgy. As part of tender conditions for government projects, Reserve Bank of India guidelines require bank guarantees that are to be issued […]
