New Delhi, 5/8: BJD Rajya Sabha MP Dr. Sasmit Patra demanded passing of the 33% Women’s Reservation Bill in Parliament. Speaking in the Rajya Sabha in the Special Mention, he mentioned how Odisha Vidhan Sabha had passed a resolution demanding 33% reservation for women in Parliament and State Assemblies. He also mentioned about how 22…
New Delhi, 5/8: India has offered to sell 18 light-combat aircraft (LCA) “Tejas” to Malaysia, the defence ministry said on Friday, adding that Argentina, Australia, Egypt, the United States, Indonesia, and the Philippines were also interested in the single-engine jet. The government last year gave a $6 billion contract to state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics…
Kanpur, 5/8:Police here have lodged an FIR against The Week amid a row over “objectionable pictures” of Lord Shiva and Goddess Kali that has led Hindu activists to burn copies of the magazine and economist Bibek Debroy end his association with it. Kanpur’s Kotwali police registered the case against the editor and management of the…
Berhampur 5/8: A sports teacher has immeasurable assets. Starting from distilleries, there are petrol pumps and gas warehouses as well. Among them, there are many famous buildings. The vigilance team broke into the house of one such Kuber teacher this morning. Janardan Sahu, a teacher of Jayantipur High School from Ganjam district, under the raid…
New Delhi, 5/8: Several Congress MPs including Rahul Gandhi, Shashi Tharoor and K C Venugopal have been detained by police during a protest against the Central government on price rise and unemployment. The Congress MPs were marching towards the Rashtrapati Bhawan from the Parliament. “All Congress MPs were marching towards Rashtrapati Bhawan to…
New Delhi, 5/8: The Delhi Police has denied permission to the Congress for holding a protest in the national capital on Friday, citing that prohibitory orders are in place in New Delhi district, officials said. The Congress has planned a mass protest against price rise, unemployment and the GST hike on essential items…
UK, 5/8: Rishi Sunak on Thursday appeared to score a surprise win with a studio audience at a key debate with frontrunner Liz Truss in the race to become Britain’s next prime minister. While opinion polls back Truss to win the vote among Conservative party members, those sitting in the audience at the Sky…
New Delhi, 5/8: The Reserve Bank of India hiked the policy repo rate by 50 basis points to 5.4 per cent on Friday and revised its inflation forecast to 6.7% in 2022-23. RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das further announced that the real GDP growth projection for 2022-23 has been retained at 7.2 per cent…
Washington DC, 4/8: US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Japan on Thursday for the final stop on her Asian tour, following a visit to Taiwan that incensed China. AFP reporters saw the politician disembark from her plane at Yokota Air Base in Tokyo, before greeting the US ambassador and other officials with…
New Delhi, 4/8: Five women officers of the Indian Navy have undertaken the first all-women reconnaissance and surveillance mission in the Arabian Sea in a Dornier-228 aircraft, breaking yet another barrier for women in the military. While the mission commander was Lt Cdr Aanchal Sharma, a trained observer, the aircraft was piloted by Lt…
