NEW DELHI: Centre on Thursday justified the exclusion of transgender persons, men having sex with men, and female sex workers from list of potential blood donors, saying the decision was not discriminatory but one based on health studies which found six to 13 times higher incidence of HIV among these groups.Additional solicitor general Aishwarya Bhati…
NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha on Thursday witnessed a ruckus after Rahul Gandhi was interrupted during his speech on the energy crisis when he took a jibe at oil and gas minister Hardeep Puri for his name allegedly appearing in the files of an American sex-offender. He also attacked the govt over the US waiver…
NEW DELHI: In an unusual development, TMC MPs had sought an appointment with President Droupadi Murmu to apprise her about the welfare initiatives taken by the Bengal govt. However, Rashtrapati Bhavan turned down their request citing “paucity of time”, as per sources.This comes after a political row errupted over allegations of protocol lapses during Murmu’s…
NEW DELHI: India co-sponsored a resolution in UN Security Council that condemned the “egregious” attacks by Iran against Gulf Cooperation Council countries and Jordan and demanded immediate cessation of all attacks by Tehran while denouncing its threats of closure of the Strait of Hormuz.The 15-nation Security Council, currently under the presidency of the US, adopted…
NEW DELHI: The govt said on Thursday that external affairs minister (EAM) S Jaishankar had discussed safe passage for commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz in a conversation with his Iranian counterpart Seyed Araghchi on Tuesday but did not confirm if there’s any assurance yet from Tehran that India-bound vessels would not be targeted….
Time is the fourth dimension, in addition to the length, width and height of the usual spatial cognition of our world, though most may not realise its ubiety. It is what takes our square existence beyond the humdrum two-dimensional flatness, beyond even the stereoscopy of the cube to the refracting multifacetedness of the hyper-cube, the…
NEW DELHI: The income of parents cannot be the sole criterion for exclusion of a candidate from OBC quota on the ground of being part of ‘creamy layer’, the Supreme Court has said, stressing that status and category of parents’ jobs have to be considered, with income/wealth test as an additional criterion for exclusion. At…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission may announce assembly polls in five states/UT anytime after March 15, which is also the deadline for filing of appeals against the final electoral roll for West Bengal published on Feb 28 with a total 6.4 crore electors.The window for appeals against the final electoral rolls for other poll-bound states/UT…
NEW DELHI: A Liberian-flagged ship, “captained by an Indian national”, loaded with crude oil from the Saudi port of Ras Tanura has arrived at the port of Mumbai, via the Strait of Hormuz, Mumbai Port Trust has informed.Tanker Shenlong Suezmax, allegedly carrying approximately 135,335 metric tonne (or roughly 1 million barrels) of crude oil, had…
SRINAGAR/JAMMU: The suspect arrested for attempting to shoot National Conference president Farooq Abdullah at a wedding in Jammu Wednesday is a 63-year-old man who, by his own admission in a video recorded after he was overpowered and disarmed, had been planning for 20 years to assassinate the ex-J&K CM.“I wanted to kill Farooq Abdullah…It was…
