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Last Updated: September 22, 2023, 09:19 IST Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. (PTI File Photo) Singh said he had not heard the remarks and urged the Chair to delete them from the proceedings if they have hurt the opposition members Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday expressed regret in the Lok Sabha for certain “objectionable” remarks made by BJP member Ramesh Bidhuri. Participating in a discussion on the Chandrayaan-3…

Last Updated: September 22, 2023, 04:51 IST The Congress has been demanding a CBI probe into Bhandari’s murder accusing the state government of protecting her killers. (Image: Instagram) Bhandari’s body had been recovered from the Chilla barrage near the resort a few days after her murder. She was allegedly pushed into it by her killers, causing her death Congress Mahila Morcha state president Jyoti Rautela and a fellow female…

PM Narendra Modi reacts after the passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill by Rajya Sabha in the special session of Parliament, in New Delhi on September 21. (Image: PTI) PM Narendra Modi celebrates his birthday on September 17. Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar, however, said September 21 is his birthday as per the Hindu calendar Vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the “historic achievement” of the passage of…

Published By: Saurabh Verma Last Updated: September 21, 2023, 22:52 IST Gehlot has used the same N-words to describe former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot after he mounted a rebellion in 2020 against his leadership. (File photo/News18) The chief minister was lashing out at the BJP-led government at the Centre for not declaring the Eastern Rajasthan Canal Project (ERCP) a “national project” Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday…

Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday filed a statement of objections before the Karnataka High Court on a petition challenging his election.  “The election petition filed by the petitioner lacks legal merit and factual basis. The petitioner has filed the present election petition purely to wreak political vengeance and the same is filled with political malafides. The petitioner has approached this Hon’ble Court without solid evidence or legal grounds,…

Lee kun-hee embarked on a world tour in 1993 to take stock of Samsung, the firm he inherited from his father. Finding its televisions and other electronics languishing on shelves, he decided to remake Samsung’s image. “Change everything but your wife and your children,” he told employees. One thing that didn’t change, according to a ruling by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), is the close…

Jay Panda, a prominent leader from Odisha, had quit the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in 2018 and joined the BJP in March 2019. (X/@PandaJay/File) The caller reportedly threatened to assassinate the BJP leader along the lines of Odisha minister Naba Das’s murder earlier this year BJP national vice-president Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda received a death threat this week, in which the caller threatened to assassinate the leader along the lines…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate 16 ‘Atal Awasiya Vidyala’ (residential schools) across Uttar Pradesh and lay foundation stone for an international cricket stadium during his visit to Varanasi on 23 September. A statement from the prime minister’s office said, “At around 1:30pm, the prime minister will lay the foundation stone of the International Cricket Stadium in Varanasi. At around 3:15pm, Prime Minister will reach Rudraksh International…

Published By: Sanstuti Nath Last Updated: September 21, 2023, 12:19 IST NCP Leader Praful Patel with party founder Sharad Pawar (Image:X) The Sharad Pawar group called it the magnanimity of the octogenarian leader As both factions of the Nationalist Congres Party get ready to present their sides before the Election Commission of India, Rajya Sabha member Praful Patel, who is with the Ajit Pawar faction, shared a photo with…

PM Modi on 21 September thanked MPs for clearing women’s reservation bill in Lok Sabha and said that passage of women’s reservation bill marks golden moment in India’s parliamentary journey. The Bill has now been tabled in Rajya Sabha with Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal saying it is part of a series of measures the government has taken for the empowerment of women. Yesterday, Lok Sabha passed the Women’s…

JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy on Thursday left for New Delhi to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national President J P Nadda to discuss the alliance between the two parties in Karnataka for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The former Chief Minister said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and JD(S) patriarch and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda also may hold talks on this, if required. Gowda,…

An ability to groom talented officials, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, once said, “largely determines the rise and fall, as well as the survival or demise” of political parties and countries. After a sweeping reshuffle of ministerial posts in March, the government’s main news agency, Xinhua, recalled Mr Xi’s words in an article aimed at showing how meticulous the selection process had been. Since late June, however, two of the…

Published By: Sanstuti Nath Last Updated: September 21, 2023, 09:48 IST Udhayanidhi said this development has proved his party’s stand that NEET is an arrangement to make the coaching centres and private medical colleges prosperous (File photo/Facebook) The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Wednesday reduced the qualifying percentile for NEET PG 2023 to be eligible for counselling to zero across all categories The Centre reducing the…

Last Updated: September 21, 2023, 08:59 IST In the 2019 Lok Sabha poll data, the irony can be seen. Of 8,048 candidates who contested the 543 Lok Sabha seats, only 726 were women candidates. (Getty) Nothing stops parties from voluntarily allotting 33 per cent or more of their tickets to women to give them a chance to win and increase the women proportion in the next Lok Sabha from…

Parliament Session LIVE: In a historic decision, parliamentarians in Lok Sabha passed the Women’s Reservation Bill which proposes to pave way for 33 per cent quota for women in the lower house. Lok Sabha on Wednesday gave passage to the Bill introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. A whopping 454 members voted in support of the Bill and only two voted against it. Now that the Bill, also…

Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra lashed out at the Narendra Modi government on Wednesday, wondering if women were considered ‘less than cows’. The remarks came as the Lok Sabha debated the women’s reservation bill during a special five-day Parliament session on Wednesday. Moitra noted that the date of implementation remained unclear as the “date of the next census is indeterminate, and the date of the delimitation exercise is doubly…

Published By: Kavya Mishra Last Updated: September 20, 2023, 23:46 IST Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan. (File photo/PTI) He also accused the previous Congress government led by Kamal Nath of stopping the welfare schemes launched by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) earlier Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday hit out at the opposition Congress, saying that it was facing public anger in the state and…

Udhayanidhi Stalin, son of Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin and the state sports minister on Wednesday gave another controversial remark, saying that President Droupadi Murmu was not invited to the inauguration of the new Parliament building because she was a widow and belonged to the tribal community. “The new Parliament building was inaugurated. They (BJP) got the Adheenams from Tamil Nadu for the inauguration, but the President of…