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Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi. File. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Abu Asim Azmi’s remarks praising Mughal emperor Aurangzeb triggered a controversy in the Maharashtra Assembly on Tuesday, with leaders from the ruling Mahayuti alliance raising slogans demanding that Mr. Azmi be charged with sedition, and suspended. A complaint has been registered against … Read more
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar with Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi during the two-day conference of CEOs of all States/UTs at India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM), in New Delhi on Tuesday (March 4, 2025). | Photo Credit: ECI via PTI Photo Amid complaints of anomalies in voters’ lists, … Read more
Mr. Jaishankar also met with Trade and Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds to discuss the India-U.K. “free trade” deal (FTA), the Minister said on social media site X. | Photo Credit: X/@DrSJaishankar External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar began his visit to the U.K. on Tuesday (March 4, 2025) with a series of meetings in London with … Read more
The DPDP Act, passed in Parliament two years ago, has removed language from the RTI Act that would compel disclosure of personal information | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge reiterated concerns on Tuesday (March 4, 2025) that the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, was weakening the Right to Information Act, … Read more
Union Home Minister Amit Shah chairs a meeting to review security situation in Manipur, in New Delhi, on March 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI At a security review meeting last week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah directed the Manipur administration to restore religious places that had been damaged or vandalised during the May 2023 … Read more
Himanshu Shah, founder of Shah Capital, a global investment firm, thinks the new U.S. administration “is unpredictable and not good for business” | Photo Credit: VIPIN CHANDRAN India can find opportunities in the global supply chain economy which is being disrupted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff policy, according to Arun M. Kumar, former … Read more
A day after the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) told the Delhi High Court that Uttar Pradesh resident Shahzadi Khan was executed in Abu Dhabi on February 15, the family of the 33-year-old woman is now writing to the Ministry seeking details of the legal options explored by the Indian government for their daughter. The … Read more
Representative image | Photo Credit: Reuters The Union government denied receiving a request for assistance from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to serve summons papers on Gautam Adani and others in the Adani v. SEC bribery case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. In response to a … Read more
Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri visits Ram Janmabhoomi Temple, in Ayodhya on March 4, 2025 | Photo Credit: ANI Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Puri on Tuesday (March 4, 2025) described Ayodhya as a “meeting ground of Sanatana Dharma and Sikhism” as he paid obeisance both at the Ram Temple there … Read more
Ever since the government revised the EMRS scheme in 2020, it has aggressively sanctioned new schools, with a total of 728 Eklavya schools sanctioned till February 28, of which 477 are functional. File image: Special Arrangement Five years after the Union government introduced fresh guidelines to elevate its flagship Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRS) for tribal … Read more