India

Under pressure, Karnataka to revise internal quota of SC communities BENGALURU: Under pressure from Left sect Scheduled Caste (SC) communities and two of its own ministers, Karanataka’s Siddaramaiah-led Congress govt has decided to revisit an earlier decision to fill 56,432 govt posts without internal reservation. The cabinet is expected to deliberate on introducing pro rata…

File photo: BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has constituted the committee of privileges, a key panel of the House which is tasked with looking into complaints of breach of privilege against a member and can even recommend expulsion.BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad will head the 15-member committee, which…

NEW DELHI: Every year, nearly 6 lakh babies in India are born with congenital anomalies. Yet, the country has no national registry to track them.With congenital conditions now accounting for a growing share of child deaths as infectious mortality declines, experts say the gap in surveillance and coordinated care is becoming urgent. India contributes 16%…

NEW DELHI: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board on Tuesday “strongly and unequivocally condemned” the open aggression by US-Israel against Iran. The board urged the UN and the international community to take immediate, effective, and concrete steps to ensure a ceasefire and prevent the region from descending into a devastating war.In a press statement,…

NEW DELHI: Data centres have emerged as new targets, with Iran launching attacks on three such facilities in what is being seen as an attempt to destabilise operations.Three Amazon data centres – two in the UAE and one in Bahrain – were targeted by drones, disrupting cloud services and computing facilities in areas like banking…

NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday slammed Sonia Gandhi’s denunciation of the government’s silence over the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a US-Israeli attack as the party recalled the deceased Iranian’s support for the secessionist forces in Kashmir and said diplomacy cannot be reduced to appeasement or performative politics.BJP’s foreign department head…

NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi continued to lead India’s efforts to ensure the well-being of the Indian community and offset any negative impact of the conflict on India as he spoke to the leaders of Qatar, Oman and Kuwait and condemned the Iranian attacks on these countries. With this latest round of talks, PM Modi…

NEW DELHI: Traversing all three levels of the judicial system and over four decades later, the curtains came down on a smuggling case – illegal import of 777 foreign-made wristwatches – on Feb 23, as Supreme Court held the three accused guilty, but said sending them to jail again would be harsh in view of…

NEW DELHI: Indian Youth Congress president Uday Bhanu Chib was released from Tihar jail on Tuesday, days after being granted bail in connection with a protest at Bharat Mandapam during the AI Impact Summit.Speaking after his release, Chib said the Congress and its youth wing would continue to oppose the India-US deal, which he alleged…

GUWAHATI: In a sudden move, with the opposition alliance still not fully formed, the AICC on Tuesday released its first list of 42 candidates for Assam assembly elections. The announcement has put Congress on a collision course with the regional party Raijor Dal, led by Akhil Gogoi, which had been hoping to secure some of…