KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee Tuesday called off her protest launched on March 6 against “forced deletion” of names from voters’ list, hailing the SC order on Bengal SIR as a “people’s victory” as it “opened a closed door” for those stripped of voting rights.The sit-in at Esplanade continued for 114 hours, during which the…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar held a phone conversation with Iran’s foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Tuesday, to discuss regional developments and concerns over shipping security in the region. In a post on X EAM later described the talks as detailed and said both sides agreed to remain in touch. Modi Meets…
NEW DELHI: During the discussion on the resolution for removal of Om Birla from the Speaker’s post, Congress member Gaurav Gogoi on Tuesday said Kiren Rijiju would be remembered as the parliamentary affairs minister who interrupted the opposition the most. His remark drew a swift response, not from Rijiju, but home minister Amit Shah.Shah said…
NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha on Tuesday took up the opposition’s resolution on removal of Speaker Om Birla amid a heated debate over who should preside while the House discussed him. Opening the debate, Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi accused Birla of partisan behaviour. He said the Speaker made “baseless” allegations against women opposition MPs and…
Celebrating the spirit of International Women’s Day, Times Entertainment’s Power Creator Awards — Women’s Edition ceremony took place in Mumbai on Monday, March 9, to honour exceptional women shaping India’s digital universe.The event kicked off with a panel discussion on the ‘She-Economy’ featuring actor Sayani Gupta, long-jump legend Anju Bobby George, poet Priya Malik and…
NEW DELHI: Exercising exclusive Art 142 powers, Supreme Court Tuesday ordered setting up of a tribunal comprising retired Chief Justice and ex-judges of Calcutta and neighbouring HCs to decide appeals against judicial officers’ orders rejecting claims for inclusion in the Bengal voter list post special intensive revision.A bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justices R…
NEW DELHI: The governing NDA on Tuesday came down heavily on Rahul Gandhi over the no-confidence motion against Speaker Om Birla, with parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju saying the leader of the opposition was attacking democratic institutions because of the realisation that there is no way he could lead his party to win an election.Rijiju…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea filed by People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) against the Karnataka high court order which had held that Kambala and bull races in Karnataka cannot be restricted to the coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi. The appellant sought to challenge this.A bench of justices…
Manek Chowk in Wembley, London after it was trashed by a gang LONDON: Gangs of suspected Somalian men have allegedly been terrorising Indian-origin shopkeepers and restaurant owners in Wembley and trashing their shops in targeted attacks of late. This follows the attack in Harrow last week, wherein a gang attacked Holi revellers. Wembley shopkeepers felt…
NEW DELHI: SC Tuesday agreed to test correctness of a Bombay HC judgment striking down amendments to Information and Technology Rules that allowed Centre to set up fact-check units to flag fake social media content that would make it obligatory for intermediaries to take down the content or lose ‘safe harbour’ protection. Solicitor general Tushar…