A fresh demand for the grant of special category status to Bihar was raised inside the assembly on Friday by a key aide of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who is now in the BJP-led NDA. Power Minister Bijendra Yadav, while presenting his department’s budget before the House, urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to fulfill the…
The Allahabad High Court has held that a property purchased by a husband in the name of a wife, who is a homemaker and has no independent source of income, is a family property. Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal said that it is common and natural for Hindu husbands to purchase properties in the name…
The joy in the INDIA bloc over seat-sharing breakthroughs may prove to be short-lived, with the Trinamool Congress reiterating that it will contest all 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. The party’s snub to the Congress comes after a wild swing in less than 24 hours, with sources in the alliance indicating on Thursday…
A 24-year-old man died by suicide in Uttar Pradesh because he was not “getting a job”, police said today. The man, who had recently appeared for a police recruitment exam, hanged himself in his home, his family claimed. Brijesh Pal, who was from Kannauj, left behind a suicide note where he mentioned that he burned…
American forces shot down three one-way attack drones near commercial ships in the Red Sea on Friday, after striking four drones on the ground in Yemen the day before, the US military said. Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis have been targeting shipping for months and their attacks have persisted despite repeated American and British strikes aimed at…
Gaza truce talks were under way in Paris on Friday, in what appears to be the most serious push for weeks to halt the fighting in the battered Palestinian enclave and see Israeli and foreign hostages released. A source briefed on the ceasefire talks, who could not be identified by name or nationality, said talks…
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday dismissed the opposition’s demand for providing at least 200 units of free electricity to the poor and emphasised that electricity is already being supplied to consumers at highly subsidised rates. The Bihar Chief Minister made the remark in the assembly during a debate on budget allocation for the energy…
The Leader of the Opposition in the Assam Assembly, Debabrata Saikia, on Friday submitted two petitions to the Speaker, requesting him to disqualify Congress MLAs Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha and Basanta Das, who recently announced their “support to the government” without leaving the party. Leading a delegation of the Congress, Mr Saikia submitted the petitions to…
Yana Mir, a social activist and a journalist from Jammu and Kashmir, was honoured in the UK Parliament with the Diversity Ambassador award. Ms Mir’s speech countering “propaganda” against Jammu and Kashmir is going viral, where she said she is “not a Malala Yousafzai”, the Nobel Peace Prize winner from Pakistan who has taken refuge…
The first American spaceship on the Moon since Apollo is “alive and well” following a drama-packed touchdown, the company that built it said Friday as it worked to download data and images from the uncrewed robot. Odysseus landed near the lunar south pole Thursday at 6:23 pm Eastern Time (2323 GMT), after a nail-biting final…