BSP appoints Randhir Beniwal its national coordinator after Mayawati’s brother turns down offer

BSP supremo Mayawati. File | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA The Bahujan Samaj Party on Wednesday (March 5, 2025) appointed Ramji Gautam and Randhir Beniwal as its national coordinator after Mayawati’s brother and the party’s national vice-president Anand Kumar expressed a desire to hold one post at a time. Mr. Kumar was recently given the additional … Read more

Meeting of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and IT begins

BJP MP Nishikant Dubey. File | Photo Credit: ANI The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology commenced its meeting on Wednesday (March 5, 2025) at Parliament House Annexe. BJP MP and Committee Chairman Nishikant Dubey and officials from different ministries arrived for the meeting. The Committee will consider and adopt two draft Action … Read more

Panel seeks factual note on reports of telecom firms allowed to surrender spectrum

File picture of BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, who heads the parliamentary committee | Photo Credit: ANI A parliamentary committee has sought a factual note from the Ministry of Communications on reports that its department of telecommunications allowed the surrender of spectrum acquired in auctions by telecom companies before 2022, sources said. In its communication to … Read more

Bofors deal: CBI sends judicial request to U.S., seeks information from private investigator Michael Hershman

The logo of the Central Bureau of Investigation at its headquarters in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: PTI The CBI has sent a judicial request to the United States seeking information from private investigator Michael Hershman, who had expressed willingness to share with Indian agencies crucial details about the ₹64-crore Bofors bribery scandal of the … Read more

India’s security apparatus must remain adaptive to emerging threats: Rajnath

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inspects a light machine gun (LMG) at an exhibition during the DRDO-MHA Collaboration Conference-cum-Exhibition on advanced technologies for internal security, disaster relief operations, at DRDO Bhawan in New Delhi on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. DRDO Secretary Samir V. Kamat also seen. | Photo Credit: ANI India’s security apparatus must remain adaptive … Read more

What are the issues around delimitation? | Explained

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin speaks to the media on delimitation, in Chennai on February 25. | Photo Credit: ANI The story so far: There has been a renewed debate about delimitation after the issue was raised by the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. The delimitation of constituencies for the Lok Sabha and State … Read more

CBI detects paper leak scam under East Central Railway

CBI said a case has been registered against a Senior Divisional Electrical Engineer and eight other railway officials along with unknown candidates. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has detected and busted a departmental examination paper leak scam under the East Central Railway (ECR) at Mughal Sarai in Uttar Pradesh … Read more

Belgium defence push in India: JCD ties up with EPH to manufacture tank turrets

“We make the whole launcher of the Akash NG Surface to Air Missile system, and are also supplying electronics and software for the Advanced Towed Array Gun System (ATAGS),” Ashley Rasquinha, Jt. MD, EPH, said. | Photo Credit: PTI Belgium’s John Cockerill Defence (JCD), the world’s top-turret manufacturer for battle tanks, and Pune-based Electro Pneumatics … Read more

Belgium pitches defence cooperation with India amidst Russia-Ukraine turmoil, saying Europe needs “strategic autonomy”

Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Princess Astrid of Belgium, in New Delhi on Tuesday | Photo Credit: ANI Europe needs to develop its own “strategic autonomy”, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot said on Tuesday (March 4, 2025), speaking about the United States’ decision to change its course on the Ukraine war. As … Read more