NEW DELHI: Describing the amendments to FCRA rules as designed “not to regulate but to strangulate” independent civil society, Congress leader KC Venugopal Thursday wrote to PM Narendra Modi demanding that they be withdrawn.Venugopal called the recently notified rules an “overt and systemic assault on India’s civil society”, warning that they would financially and operationally…
New Delhi: Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation has imposed a Rs 1 lakh penalty and slapped a show-cause notice for termination of the licence of a food vendor after a passenger alleged a fly was found in the veg biryani served on Tejas Express.Officials said he was attended to immediately by the train captain…
Abhijeet Dipke shared videos on X alleging that BJP workers assaulted reporters and protesters at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. (Screengrab/X/@abhijeet_dipke) NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Friday alleged that BJP workers physically assaulted reporters and protesters at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, sharing videos of the incident on X.In one of the videos, a…
Govt Thursday announced a steep increase in passport fees across categories, including a 67% hike for issuance or reissue of ordinary passport and a 250% increase in charges under the Tatkal scheme. The new charges will be effective July 1. MEA said an ordinary 36-page fresh passport for applicants aged 18 years and above will…
New Delhi: Mahesh Dixit, a 1993-batch IPS officer, was appointed as the next chief of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) on Thursday. He will succeed Tapan Deka whose extension ends in June. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet chaired by PM Modi cleared his appointment for a tenure of two years from the date of assumption…
CJI Surya Kant (Source: ANI) NEW DELHI: Giving an interesting twist to the popular belief that 13th century Magna Carta articulated the concept of equality, Chief Justice Surya Kant Thursday said he personally believed that ‘Arthashastra’, authored by legendary 4th century administrator, strategist and thinker Kautilya, conceptualised equality and gave it the foundational value for…
India’s envoy to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi NEW DELHI/DHAKA: In a decision that underscores the importance New Delhi attaches to its diplomatic engagement with Dhaka, India’s new high commissioner to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi has been accorded status equivalent to Union cabinet minister.Soon after presenting his credentials to President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Thursday, Trivedi — the first…
NEW DELHI: Amid growing indications that a reshuffle in the Union Cabinet can go in tandem with BJP’s organisational changes, party president Nitin Nabin is learnt to be giving the final touches to his team of office-bearers.BJP sources had earlier indicated the organisational overhaul would be done by month-end, with changes likely to bear relation…
NEW DELHI: Amid easing of sanctions on Iran, India and Tehran on Thursday discussed enhanced cooperation in the hydrocarbon sector.Oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri met his Iranian counterpart Mohsen Paknejad days after the US-Iran MoU to end the West Asia conflict and amid the possibility of Iranian crude returning to the market following a 60-day…
JAMMU: A bridge washed away in a cloudburst that killed 65 people at Chishoti in Jammu & Kashmir’s Kishtwar district last Aug was restored by Border Roads Organisation in 12 days. Operationalisation of the 140ft triple double reinforced Bailey bridge restored road connectivity between Gulabgarh and the remote Machail region.Jammu-based defence PRO Col Sunil Bartwal…
