Manmohan Singh in Lok Sabha (From a 2005 clip shared by Jairam Ramesh) NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing row over Rahul Gandhi stopped from speaking in Lok Sabha and PM Modi‘s speech being cancelled, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh shared old videos of Manmohan Singh refering to when the then-Prime Minister “was prevented from replying to…
The New Jalpaiguri–Chennai Central Superfast Express derailed near Jakhapura station in Odisha’s Jajpur district while en route to Howrah, Kolkata.The incident occurred at 8.51 am, and no injuries or fatalities were reported, railway officials said, as cited by PTI. One AC coach and two general coaches of the train jumped off the tracks. Passengers have…
Image: ANI MUMBAI: Following media reports of an on-ground Air India Boeing 787 fuel control switch malfunction in London the UK’s civil aviation regulator has sought information from the airline on the maintenance work done on the said aircraft in London before it was cleared to take off for Bengaluru.In a letter sent to Air…
The Washington Post has announced what it described as “significant restructuring,” at the organisation which includes shutting down its current Sports Desk and scaling back its international reportage footprint. According to Fox News, about a third of the organisation’s workforce has been affected, close to 300 people.Ishaan Tharoor, foreign affairs columnist at The Post and…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will undertake a two-day visit to Malaysia beginning Saturday to shore up bilateral ties in areas of trade, investment, energy, and maritime security. It would be Prime Minister Modi’s third visit to Malaysia, and the first after the elevation of the India-Malaysia bilateral relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in August…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission of India will hold a conference of all state election commissioners (SECs) here on Feb 24, to discuss issues which include the sharing of ECI electronic voting machines (EVMs), electoral rolls and technological innovations like ECINet for smoother conduct of panchayat and municipal polls by state election commissions.While ECI conducts Lok…
As Ravneet Bittu approached to walk past the suspended Congress MPs, Rahul Gandhi called him a ‘traitor’ and extended his hand, drawing a sharp ‘desh ke dushman’ retort in response (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Union minister and former Congress MP Ravneet Bittu and Rahul Gandhi got into a bitter exchange Wednesday, when the LoP mocked…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha, already deadlocked over Rahul Gandhi’s insistence on referring to an unpublished book, was plunged into deeper impasse on Wednesday as BJP MP Nishikant Dubey turned to a pile of books with uncharitable references to members of the Nehru-Gandhi family to “expose” Congress.PM Modi’s reply to the motion of thanks on the…
Supreme Court asks Centre to review Wangchuk’s detention NEW DELHI: Observing that the medical condition of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, who has been in detention for more than four months, is not very good, Supreme Court asked the Centre Wednesday to rethink/relook its decision to continue to keep him in custody, reports Amit Anand Choudhary.SC…
The representatives of Leh Apex Body (LAB) and Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) leave after meeting the home ministry panel under Minister of State (MoS) for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai, in New Delhi. JAMMU: The crucial talks between the Ladakh leadership and the high-powered home ministry committee ended without any conclusion in New Delhi on Wednesday,…
