New Delhi, 17/7:The Opposition candidate for Vice Presidential elections to be held in August is Margaret Alva. Alva has served multiple terms as governor of Rajasthan, Goa and Uttarakhand. Opposition parties on Sunday met to choose the Vice Presidential candidate at NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s residence. Many senior leaders including Mallikarjun Kharge, Shiv…
Mumbai, 5/3 (AO Bureau):Aparna Purohit, the content head of Amazon Prime Video India’s web series ‘Tandava’, has received a major relief from the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has ruled out the possibility of arrest of Aparna Purohit and said that Purohit should not be arrested. The Supreme Court also commented on the Centre’s guidelines…
New Delhi: The goods train that rammed into the Kanchanjunga Express between Ranipatra Railway Station and Chattar Hat Junction in West Bengal on Monday was allowed to cross all red signals as the automatic signalling had “failed”, internal documents. The document, a written authority called TA 912, was issued to the driver of the goods…
New Delhi, 13/4:With the Reserve Bank of India prioritising inflation over growth, the repo rate is likely to be hiked by at least 25 basis points in June, SBI’s Ecowrap report said on Wednesday. In its monetary policy announced last week, the RBI had left the repo rate unchanged at 4 per cent….
Qatar, 12/12: Within 48 hours of the death of US football journalist and LGBTQIA+ ally Grant Wahl during the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, another journalist has reportedly passed away. According to a report by The Gulf Times, as well as several other media reports, Al Kass TV photojournalist Khalid al-Misslam passed…
New Delhi, 13/10: Climate activist Sonam Wangchuk and 20 other protestors were detained by the Delhi Police for protesting outside the Ladakh Bhawan here on Sunday, officials said Around 20 to 25 protesters, who were on fast with Wangchuk, were detained and taken to the Mandir Marg police station, they said.
New Delhi, 16/1: Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday said the government’s demand for inclusion of its representatives and that of states in collegiums of the Supreme Court and high courts was the “precise follow-up action” suggested by the apex court while striking down the National Judicial Appointment Commission Act. Rijiju made the…
Berhampur, 3/8: Doctors at a government-run veterinary hospital in Odisha’s Berhampur have removed plastic bags weighing around 30 kg from the stomach of a cow. It took a four-hour long operation for a team of veterinary doctors, led by Satya Narayan Kar, to remove the undigested polythene bags from the stomach of the…
New Delhi, 10/8: Beijing on Monday protested New Delhi’s move to formally assign names to 27 places and features in Arunachal Pradesh on the official map of India, alleging that it was intended to replace names long used by China to identify places in South Tibet. A spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in…
Patna, 22/11: RJD president Lalu Prasad on Friday came out strongly in support of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s demand for “immediate arrest” of leading industrialist Gautam Adani. The former chief minister of Bihar was responding to queries from journalists here about Rahul Gandhi’s statement on the previous day, in the backdrop of charges of bribery…
