NEW DELHI, SEPT 12 : Tributes and condolences poured in, cutting across the party lines, after the death of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Thursday afternoon. Taking to X, Leader of Opposition (LoP) and senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that he would miss long discussions with the veteran leader. […]Continue Reading
WASHINGTON, SEPT 10 : Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has accused the RSS of considering some religions, languages and communities of being inferior to others and said that the fight in India is about this and not about politics. The Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha was addressing a gathering of several hundred Indian Americans in […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, SEPT 10 : As I have often written here on these pages, Apple doesn’t do drastic. If it is not introducing an entirely different product, then most of the time — although there are exceptions — it tweaks and improves and makes subtle but significant changes to its products. The iPhone 16 and […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, SEPT 9 : The Supreme Court on Monday directed junior doctors, who have been protesting the rape and murder of a 31-year-old medico, to resume their duties by 5 p.m. on Tuesday. The court cautioned that if the doctors fail to comply, the state government would be free to take disciplinary action against […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, SEPT 9 : Congress MP and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi said the people lost their fear of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP after the party failed to get a majority on its own in the 2024 Lok Sabha election. “The other thing that happened was that the fear of the […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI. SEPT 8 : A doctor at Dwarka’s Indira Gandhi Hospital was allegedly cussed at by two drunk men who became aggressive after they were told that x-ray services were unavailable at the hospital. The incident occurred around 4 am Sunday when the two came to the hospital with one of them having a […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, SEPT 7 : The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council may consider imposing 18% GST on payment aggregators (PAs) for small digital transactions up to Rs 2,000, via debit and credit cards, according to a report by CNBC-TV18. The proposal will be discussed at the GST Council’s upcoming meeting on September 9. Payment […]Continue Reading
PARIS, SEPT 6 : India’s Praveen Kumar dazzled with a record-breaking performance in the men’s high jump T64 event, adding a Paralympic gold to his Tokyo Games silver here on Friday. The 21-year-old from Noida, who was born with a short leg, smashed the Asian record with a best jump of 2.08m in the six-jumper […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, SEPT 5 : The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s separate pleas seeking bail and challenging his arrest by the CBI in the Delhi excise policy case. A two-judge bench of the top court, led by Justice Surya Kant and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, after a daylong […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,SEPT 4 : 2023 and 2024 world champion Sachin Khilari clinched silver in the Paris Paralympics on Wednesday, September 4. Khilari threw 16.32m in the men’s shot put F46 – finishing behind Canada’s Greg Stewart at Stade de France in Paris. Khilari’s throw on Wednesday was also the best effort an Asian has ever […]Continue Reading
