New Delhi, 16/10: BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, who wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla accusing TMC’s Mahua Moitra of taking ‘bribes’ from a businessman to ask questions in Parliament, has also written to IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, urging him to investigate the IP addresses of her log-in credentials for the House. In a letter…
New Delhi, 16/10: Defying the Janata Dal (S) supremo H D Deve Gowda’s decision of his party’s alliance with the BJP for the Lok Sabha elections, the party’s Karnataka unit president C M Ibrahim on Monday said the JD(S) will not join the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Hinting at a possible split in the…
New Delhi, 16/10: The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the plea of a married woman seeking to terminate her over-26-week pregnancy owing to her medical conditions. The apex court said that since length of pregnancy had crossed 24 weeks, medical termination of pregnancy cannot be permitted. “The woman’s pregnancy is 26 weeks and 5 days…
New Delhi, 16/10: The Army has said that Agniveer Amritpal Singh died by suicide by shooting himself while on sentry duty and that military honours were not extended to his funeral as deaths arising out of self-inflicted injuries are not given such honours. The Army, on Sunday, asserted that it does not differentiate among soldiers…
New Delhi, 16/10: Following a detailed probe into the bribes-for-jobs scandal that drew severe heat towards IT bellwether Tata Consultancy Services, the company has fired 16 employees and removed three people from resource management functions, besides barring six vendors from carrying out any further business with company. Our investigation found 19 employees to be…
Washington DC, 16/10: President Joe Biden warned Israel in an interview aired Sunday not to reoccupy the Gaza Strip, his first significant public effort to restrain America’s ally in the wake of the Hamas assault that killed more than 1,300 people, including at least 29 American. Biden has offered staunch support for Israel since the…
New Delhi, 15/10: Afghanistan stunned defending champions England after beating them by 69 runs in match 13 of the ICC Men’s World Cup at Delhi’s Arun Jaitley Stadium on Sunday. Having sent to bat first, the Afghan side posted a total of 284 against the English side, thanks to opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz’s 80 off 57….
UP, 15/10: Apparently indicating that it was not inclined to accede to the Congress’ demand for around two dozen seats in Uttar Pradesh, which sent 80 members to the Lok Sabha, in the next year’s general elections as part of the grand Opposition alliance I.N.D.I.A. the Samajwadi Party (SP) has asked the grand old party…
Mumbai, 15/10; For close to four decades, the Balasaheb Thackeray-founded Shiv Sena maintained a distance from the socialist parties – but in a significant political development in Maharashtra on Sunday, Uddhav Thackeray forged a sort of alliance with them . The alliance is also important in the view of the civic bodies polls next year…
Gaza, 15/10: The Israeli army said it’s making preparations for “significant ground operations” in Gaza, a week after Hamas militants struck southern Israel in one of the worst attacks in the country’s history. The next phase of the war can include a coordinated land, sea and air assault, the Israel Defense Forces said in a…
