Congress 24 Akbar road headquarters (Image/PTI) NEW DELHI: The Congress party on Wednesday received an eviction notice for its long-held national headquarters at 24, Akbar Road, with instructions to vacate the premises by March 28. Reacting to the notice, Congress alleged that the ruling BJP government is attempting to divert public attention from the ongoing…
Representative image (AI-generated) NEW DELHI: The booming demand for weight-loss drugs has now caught the attention of India’s drug regulator, with a series of raids across the country revealing just how easily these prescription medicines are finding their way to consumers.In recent weeks, inspections at 49 locations—ranging from online pharmacy warehouses and wholesalers to retail…
NEW DELHI: In what will benefit hundreds of women short service commission officers, Supreme Court on Tuesday said arbitrariness in assessment of their ACRs, written at a time when they were ineligible for permanent commission (PC), resulted in unfair denial of PC and ordered the armed forces to pay full pension to them.Six years after…
NEW DELHI: India may be making progress against tuberculosis, but the scale of the challenge remains stark—accounting for nearly a quarter of the world’s TB cases even as millions of infections continue to go undetected.Tuberculosis continues to be India’s biggest infectious disease challenge, according to the Tuberculosis Fact Sheet 2026 released by the Centre. India…
NEW DELHI: Even as the opposition demanded that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill 2026 be referred to a parliamentary standing committee for wider consultations, Lok Sabha passed it by a voice vote, with govt responding to allegations of “exclusion” by saying the changes were aimed at ensuring that the protection and benefits…
NEW DELHI: Amid continuing uncertainty over the likely course of the war in West Asia, PM Modi on Tuesday warned of prolonged disruption, saying its adverse effects could last for a long time. Speaking in RS a day after President Trump said negotiations have started with Iran, Modi cautioned that conflict could continue, leading to…
NEW DELHI: Signalling a recovery from successive shocks of the last few years – including demonetisation, GST rollout and the Covid pandemic – the informal sector added nearly 75 lakh jobs during Jan-Dec 2025, the latest data released by the statistics ministry on Tuesday showed.This takes the total number employed in the unorganised sector to…
Supreme Court on Tuesday frowned upon a PIL seeking distinct enumeration of denotified, nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes (DNTs), some of which have been given Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe status, during the forthcoming census exercise. A bench of CJI Suryakant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi told Siddharth Dave, counsel for the petitioner, that the motive behind…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the West Bengal govt how a central agency can approach a state authority headed by the CM when its complaint is against the CM herself. The court put the question to CM Mamata Banerjee‘s counsel Kapil Sibal when he argued that Enforcement Directorate cannot petition SC over alleged…
NEW DELHI: The ‘ED vs West Bengal CM’ proceedings in SC on Tuesday saw a sharp exchange between the bench and CM Mamata Banerjee‘s counsel Kapil Sibal.When the bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and N V Anjaria asked how ED could file a complaint against the CM before a state authority headed by her,…
