Ram Nath Kovind has been sworn in as president of India, becoming only the second leader from the oppressed Dalit community to be elected head of state. A former lawyer and state governor, Kovind was elected to the largely ceremonial position last week with more than 65 percent of the vote by members of India’s […]
Lower level employees will get HRA hike of up to 157 percent from their July month salaries as against 122 percent for higher level employees. But when DA will cross 50% then higher level employees will receive 176 percent hike as against 157 percent hike for lower level employees. New Delhi: More than 7.5 lakh […]
Rahul Gandhi gets Nitish Kumar’s nod over support to opposition vice-presidential candidate Gopal krishna Gandhi New Delhi: Days after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar broke ranks with the Opposition and announced his support to NDA presidential nominee Ram Nath Kovind, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has now reached out to the Janata Dal United leader […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday made a strong pitch for coordinated efforts among SCO members to combat the menace of terrorism and enhance connectivity without impinging on sovereignty and territorial integrity. In his address at the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in the Kazakh capital, where Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif […]
National Security Advisory (NSA) Ajit Doval met Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his counterpart Brigadier General (retired) Jacob Nagel in Israel in order to lay groundwork for Prime Minister visit in July this year. Doval is on a two-day visit to Tel Aviv. He left for Israel on February 28 and is expected to […]
One of the most fascinating segments of voters who will be going to the polls over the seven phases of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election is the millenial voter. Parth MN, who is travelling through Uttar Pradesh, will file a series of ground reports on millennial voters in the state, with a special focus on […]
MUMBAI: The BJP had all but eroded the Shiv Sena’s early lead by 4 pm on Thursday and votes were counted in Mumbai’s civic elections on Thursday. The Shiv Sena is now leading in 84 of the 227 seats in Mumbai’s Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation or BMC, with the BJP ahead in 80, making the biggest […]
Chennai: The Madras High Court will on Tuesday hear a petition moved by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) demanding that Chief Minister EK Palaniswami`s trust vote in the Tamil Nadu State Assembly be declared null and void. MK Stalin-led DMK had earlier announced that his party would launch a state-wide hunger strike to protest against the […]
