Bangalore, ,8/11: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee Working President Satish Jarkiholi on Tuesday defended his statement that the word ‘Hindu’ had a dirty meaning and said that he would resign as MLA if his words were proven to be wrong. The MLA’s remarks stirred controversy across party lines and Opposition with both sides condeming…
Ahmedabad, 8/11: Ahead of the upcoming Gujarat Assembly polls, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Tuesday hit out at the BJP over its “arrogance”, saying no one so far has apologised or resigned for the Morbi bridge collapse tragedy which claimed 135 lives. Chidambaram, who was here to campaign for his party, also…
New Delhi, 8/11: The Supreme Court on Monday said that the 50 per cent ceiling for reservation, fixed by the nine-judge bench in 1992 in Mandal Commission case, is applicable only to the SC/ST and OBC categories while the 10 per cent EWS quota was over and above the limit. Justice Dinesh Maheshwari,…
Perth, 8/11: India captain Rohit Sharma sustained a powerful blow on his forearm during an optional training session on Tuesday, leaving the team with a massive injury scare ahead of its T20 World Cup semi-final against England. Rohit was undergoing usual practice drills as he faced team’s throwdown expert S Raghu at the…
New Delhi, 7/11: IndiGo on Monday said that around 30 aircraft are grounded due to “supply chain disruptions” and the country’s largest airline is evaluating wet leasing of planes and other options to boost operations. At the end of September, the carrier — also the world’s seventh largest in terms of daily departures…
New Delhi, 7/11: Opposition Monday spoke in different voices on the Supreme Court upholding 10 per cent reservation for economically weaker sections (EWS) with the Congress welcoming it, and the DMK finding fault with the judgment. Trinamool Congress (TMC) officially preferred “no comments as of now” even as one of its senior MPs,…
Bangalore, 7/11: Calling the Congress the ‘Gangotri’ of corruption, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has said that the grand old party has laid the groundwork for massive corruption in the state. “Former chief minister Siddaramaiah’s statements are delusive. Whatever he says has been proven false. He said that Yediyurappa will not become the chief…
Thiruvananthapuram, 7/11: Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan asked representatives of two news channels to get out of his media briefing at Kochi on Monday. Reporters and camera crew of CPM-run Kairali channel and ‘Jamaat-e-Islami’, Kerala-backed Media One were asked to get out from the briefing accusing them of being cadres involved in a…
New Delhi 7/11: BJP on Monday slammed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after a third letter of conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar surfaced detailing the ‘deals’ done at AAP Minister Kailash Gahlot’s farmhouse with the consent of Delhi CM. Shehzad Poonawalla, the national spokesperson of the BJP, questioned Kejriwal over Chandrashekhar’s allegations
New Delhi, 7/11: Meta plans to lay off employees this week, three people with knowledge of the situation said, adding that the job cuts were set to be the most significant at the company since it was founded in 2004. It was unclear how many people would be cut and in which departments,…
