New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi met the Palestinian foreign minister, Varsen Aghabekian, and reiterated India’s continued support for the people of Palestine and welcomed ongoing peace efforts, including the Gaza peace plan.The minister met the PM as a member of a delegation of the foreign ministers of Arab countries who are in India for the…
BLA claims 84 Pak security personnel killed in Operation Herof (Representative image) New Delhi: Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) on Saturday commenced “Operation Herof 2.0”, a large-scale military offensive characterised by synchronised attacks at dawn. While BLA claimed scores of casualties across the region, the official count stood at 12. The local administration claimed to have…
India, Arab League adopt ‘New Delhi Declaration’; vows zero tolerance toward terrorism, push for UNSC Reforms New Delhi: The Delhi Declaration issued after the second India-Arab foreign ministers’ meeting reaffirmed the principle of zero tolerance towards terrorism, condemned cross-border terrorism and called on all states to refrain from using terrorism against other states.In that context,…
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim will be present at the airport, along with Indian High Commissioner to Malaysia, B N Reddy, to receive PM Narendra Modi for his brief but packed visit to Malaysia Feb 7, reports Aradhana Takhtani.The visit is being seen as validation of growing ties between the nations, especially after Anwar’s…
New Delhi: Noting that Centre itself had framed General Provident Fund (Central Service) Rules in 1960, which entitled a valid nominee of GPF account to receive the amount lying in it, Supreme Court has said that the nominee does not need to produce a succession certificate to withdraw the amount.A bench of Justices Manoj Misra…
New Delhi: Forty-nine districts across eight states – Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, UP and West Bengal – contribute a major share of construction workers engaged in highway projects across the country, according to a mapping of labour origins carried out by the National Highways Authority of India.In a first-of-its-kind exercise, NHAI has…
New Delhi: The Union health ministry has challenged in Delhi high court its ruling asking Sir Gangaram Hospital to release the frozen semen of an unmarried dead man to his parents.The ministry’s appeal asked two main questions: Can judges create new heirs, other than a spouse, for children conceived after death, and can gametes/sperm be…
New Delhi: In a significant departure from one-size-fits-all penalty approach, the SC has said bigger companies bear higher responsibility towards protection of environment and it would be justifiable to impose higher penalties on mega firms for environment damage caused by them, reports Dhananjay MahapatraThis decision by Justices Dipankar Datta and Vijay Vishnoi was given while…
BAGDOGRA: Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday hit out at the INDIA bloc over attempts to seek bail for those who raised slogans about cutting the “chicken neck corridor”, saying their efforts failed as the Supreme Court rejected the bail pleas and that such intentions against India would never succeed.Addressing party workers meeting in…
NEW DELHI: In Shakespeare’s classic Hamlet, the protagonist is torn by a dilemma over avenging his father’s death by killing his uncle Claudius. A similar Hamletian dilemma appears to have gripped Sharad Pawar over the merger of the two factions of the NCP after his nephew Ajit Pawar’s death in a plane crash.While talking to…
