India

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with spiritual leader and Parmarth Niketan President Swami Chidanand Saraswati during the ongoing ‘Maha Kumbh Mela’ festival, in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. | Photo Credit: PTI Prominent political leaders, including Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, BJP MP Tejasvi Surya, Union minister Ram Mohan Naidu and Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Shinde, visited the Maha Kumbh … Read more

People look at the newly inaugurated Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) office ‘Keshava Kunj’, in New Delhi, on February 19, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday (February 19, 2025) asked volunteers to ensure that their work matched the grandeur of the organisation’s newly constructed office in New Delhi. Built … Read more

An aerial view of devotees at Sangam amid the ongoing ‘Maha Kumbh Mela’ festival, in Prayagraj, Uttar Prades. File. | Photo Credit: PTI The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday pulled up the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) for not submitting adequate information to the court, including on faecal coliform levels in the Ganga … Read more

“It will be too naive to argue that a judge of a High Court will not come within the ambit of expression “any person” in clause (f) of Section 14(1) of the Act of 2013,” the Bench observed. File | Photo Credit: PTI A Special Bench of the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on … Read more

AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge with the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR After a series of setbacks in recent Assembly elections, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday (February 19, 2025) put stress on strengthening the organisation and said that party office-bearers would be held “accountable” for … Read more

Pascale Sourisse, president and chief executive officer, Thales International. Photo: Special Arrangement. The agreement between Thales U.K. and Bharat Dynamics Limited for the supply of Laser Beam Riding Man Portable Air Defence (LBRM) Very Short Range Air Defence (VSHORAD) missiles and launchers to the Indian Army will be executed under the emergency procurement route and … Read more

In this image released by AICC on February 19, 2025, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh interacts with the media, in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: PTI The Congress on Wednesday (February 19, 2025) asked whether the Narendra Modi government would respond to the U.S. Securities and Exchanges Commission’s (SEC) request in the ongoing probe against the … Read more

The Supreme Court on Tuesday (February 18, 2025) granted interim protection from arrest to podcaster and influencer Ranveer Allahbadia in connection with the first information reports (FIRs) registered against him over remarks made on the YouTube show “India Got Latent”. A Bench comprising Justices Surya Kant and N. Kotiswar Singh imposed stringent conditions, prohibiting Allahbadia and … Read more

Agitators stage a protest over the death of a Nepali student on the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) campus, in Bhubaneswar, on February 19, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI As protests continued over the reported ill-treatment of Nepali students at Bhubaneswar-based Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), a Deemed-to-be-University, the Odisha government assured Nepal … Read more

A view of Mullaperiyar dam | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The Supreme Court on Wednesday (February 19, 2025) directed a supervisory committee, constituted by the Centre on January 3 and chaired by the head of the National Dam Safety Authority, to look into issues raised by Tamil Nadu against Kerala concerning the maintenance of the … Read more