Politics

NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi echoed US President Donald Trump‘s recent remarks and said “Indian economy is dead”.Rahul expressed his agreement in a post on X and outlined five reasons he thinks contributed to the decline.“Economy is dead. Modi killed it,” Rahul said.“The Adani-Modi partnership; Demonetisation and a flawed GST; A failed ‘Assemble…

A video from Yadgir railway station in Karnataka has gone viral after it captured a ticket clerk engaged in a phone call while ignoring a long line of waiting passengers.The clerk’s apparent indifference to the agitation of the queue waiting in line has drawn criticism both at the station and across social media platforms. The…

Uttar Pradesh’s ambitious push into world-class healthcare infrastructure takes a giant leap forward with DJ Medicity’s groundbreaking ceremony.In a power move that signals Uttar Pradesh’s serious intent to dominate India’s healthcare sector, the state’s top bureaucrat laid the foundation stone for what promises to be a game-changing medical city in Modinagar. This ceremony wasn’t just…

Senior Congress leader and former home minister P Chidambaram on Thursday dismissed Union minister Amit Shah’s Afzal Guru claim as a “ mixture of insinuation, lie, and distortion.” Clarifying his position, Chidambaram said that during his tenure, the mercy petition filed by Guru’s wife was still under consideration by the President.Union minister Amit Shah on…

NEW DELHI: Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday urged Centre to waive loans for the flood and landslide victims from her parliamentary constituency, Wayanad, and lamented the lack of central assistance for helping the affected people.Raising the issue during zero hour in Lok Sabha, Vadra said it has been a year since the disaster,…

MUMBAI: The Centre has finally appointed a full-time vice-chancellor for Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) after nearly two years of interim leadership. Badri Narayan Tiwari, a social historian with interests in culture and marginality, will helm the institute as its first official appointee since the Centre brought TISS under its administrative fold. His five-year…

JALANDHAR/CHANDIGARH: Three senior doctors at Punjab’s largest civil hospital in Jalandhar have been suspended and a house surgeon dismissed after three ventilated patients died following an oxygen supply failure on Sunday evening. State health minister Dr Balbir Singh called the failure “unpardonable” and said the suspended doctors could lose service benefits. Despite four backup sources,…

BAREILLY: Pocso court judge Devendra Nath Singh sentenced a man to 10 years of rigorous punishment for kidnaping and raping a minor girl in 2011. The court relied on educational documents to determine that the survivor was a minor (15 years and 15 days) at the time of the crime though the medical reports had…

NEW DELHI: Apply emergency brakes or trail a moving vehicle too closely at your own risk as Supreme Court has said that using brakes all of a sudden in the middle of a road or not maintaining sufficient distance from a running vehicle make a person liable for an accident if it occurs.While adjudicating a…

RAIPUR: A sessions court in Chhattisgarh’s Durg disposed of Wednesday the bail pleas of two Kerala-based Catholic nuns arrested for alleged human trafficking and forced religious conversion, citing lack of jurisdiction. The court directed the petitioners to approach the designated NIA court in Bilaspur for relief.Nuns Preethi Merry and Vandana Francis, along with tribal youth…