New Delhi, 31/8: The G-23 leaders or change-seekers are opening a new battlefront with Congress leadership on the issue of electoral roll for the president’s election with senior MP Manish Tewari now finding fault for not making public the names of electors. In what appears to be a concerted campaign on electoral rolls…
J&K, 31/8: Veteran Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad’s recent decision to quit the grand old party and launch his own, has not only affected the Indian National Congress in Jammu and Kashmir, but also the National Conference (NC), which would have to brace for the ripple effects of a new party in the union territory….
New Delhi, 31/8: India’s GDP grew at 13.5 per cent in the April-June quarter of the financial year 2022-23, helped by good growth in contact-based services sector and a good momentum in utilities. The GDP had contracted 23.9 per cent in April-June quarter of 2020 during the first wave of Covid-19 pandemic but…
New Delhi, 31/8: Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena will take legal action against AAP leaders, including MLAs Atishi, Saurabh Bhardwaj, and Durgesh Pathak for “false” corruption charges against him, officials said on Wednesday. Saxena has refuted the AAP leaders’ charge of Rs 1400-crore corruption when he was Khadi and Village Industries Commission…
New Delhi, 31/8:Facing heat against over excise policy, the AAP government has, over the past few days, sought to counter the BJP with Delhi’s education model. In a bid to popularise this model and make it accessible to students across India, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday launched the Delhi Model Virtual Schoolfor students unable…
Washington DC, 31/8: The US Army has grounded its entire fleet of Chinook helicopters, a battlefield workhorse since the 1960s, over the risk of engine fires, a media report said on Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal, which broke the story, said such an extreme step was taken out of abundance of caution. …
Patna, 31/8: Accusing Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of “working like a rubber stamp” for Lalu Prasad Yadav and Tejashwi Yadav, BJP state President Sanjay Jaiswal alleged that he had informed the RJD leaders about the CBI raids a day earlier. The CBI conducted multiple raids on the office and residence of RJD…
Russia, 31/8: Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War without bloodshed but failed to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union, died on Tuesday at the age of 91, Russian news agencies cited hospital officials as saying. Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, forged arms reduction deals with the United States and partnerships with…
