Congress leaders paid homage to former PM Manmohan Singh NEW DELHI: Remembering him as a statesman and a visionary, Congress netas Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi Saturday led the party in paying homage to late Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on his birth anniversary.Congress held a ceremony at the party office where the Gandhis,…
NEW DELHI: India has called for a global system that ensures countries sharing pathogens and biological resources during a health emergency also get timely access to vaccines, diagnostics, medicines and technologies developed from them.The demand was made at the UN High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response in New York, where India stressed that…
Manipur violence claims another life as gunmen strike Senapati village Two Mao Naga men were shot dead by unidentified gunmen at Kalenjang village in Manipur’s Senapati district Saturday afternoon, with two others wounded, in the latest escalation in a Naga-Kuki conflict that has claimed more than 40 lives since Feb.The shooting took place under Senapati…
ECINET Software To Be AuditedAfter Complaints NEW DELHI: A full meeting of the Election Commission of India on Saturday – the first after reports of alleged internal differences – decided to exempt electors who have got notices for being unmapped to the last SIR or over logical discrepancies, from hearings by electoral registration officer (ERO)…
EC says SIR decisions taken unanimously by full commission NEW DELHI: Election Commission asserted Saturday that the decisions regarding special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls were taken unanimously by chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and election commissioners S S Sandhu and Vivek Joshi.The statement came following the first meeting of the “full” Commission after…
NEW DELHI: With EPFO increasing the mandatory wage ceiling from Rs 15,000 a month to Rs 25,000, employees will now contribute Rs 3,000 (at 12% contribution of Rs 25,000 wage) towards their PF savings from Rs 1,800 earlier, govt said in a set of FAQs released. This will be along with a contribution of Rs…
Describing Pakistan as a serial practitioner of terrorism in his UNGA address, foreign minister S Jaishankar said that there must be no dilution of the zero-tolerance approach to the menace. Without naming Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif, who had raked up the Kashmir issue in his General Assembly speech on Friday, Jaishankar said he had misrepresented…
Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu backed the Election Commission’s statement on SIR, saying it reaffirmed the integrity and credibility of constitutional institutions NEW DELHI: BJP’s allies on Saturday closed ranks to hit out at opposition, with TDP chief and Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu saying EC’s statement reaffirmed “the integrity and credibility of…
Albanese highlights India’s energy connectivity under PM Modi. NEW DELHI: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has credited PM Narendra Modi with providing energy access to India’s population on a scale that, he said, no other country has achieved before.Speaking at an event on Sept 24 organised by Asia Policy Institute in New York on the…
J&K high court rejects ED plea to add charges in JKCA fund scam case JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir high court Friday rejected an Enforcement Directorate‘s petition that challenged a Srinagar CJM court’s order denying permission to add charges related to the receipt and concealment of stolen property in the alleged Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association…
