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States with successful family planning record will be ‘penalised’ in delimitation exercise: Congress Delimitation could “penalise” the States that adhered to familiy planning goals and reduced total fertility rates, the Congress warned on Tuesday (March 11, 2025). Amid the delimitation row spearheaded by the southern States, Congress communications chief Jairam Ramesh, in a long X … Read more

A View of the Logo of the Election Commission of India | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The Election Commission of India has invited suggestions from all national and State political parties for any unresolved issues at the level of Electoral Registration Officer, District Election Officer or the Chief Electoral Officer by April 30, 2025, … Read more

The Election Commission of India has invited suggestions from all national and State political parties for any unresolved issues at the level of Electoral Registration Officer, District Election Officer or the Chief Electoral Officer by April 30, 2025, according to an ECI press note. In a letter issued to political parties on March 11, Tuesday, … Read more

Union Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar in New Delhi on March 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Union Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar on Tuesday (March 11, 2025) dubbed the Tamil Nadu government “hypocrite”, accusing it of refusing to implement National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 as part of a political agenda … Read more

Victims of scam centres who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar, stuck in limbo at a compound inside the K.K. Park, a fraud factory, and a human trafficking hub on the border with Thailand-Myanmar after a multinational crackdown on the compounds run by criminal gangs, operated by the Karen Border Guard Force in … Read more

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh newly-elected General Secretary Dattatreya Hosabale addresses a press conference during the ‘Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha-21’ in Bengaluru, Saturday, March 20, 2021. | Photo Credit: PTI Pitching India to be termed only as ‘Bharat’, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale questioned if anywhere in the world a country has two names, … Read more

Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan speaks in the Rajya Sabha on March 11, 2025. Photo: Sansad TV via ANI Maintaining his position that the three-language formula in the National Education Policy (NEP) of 2020 is different from the policy implemented by the Congress government in 1968, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan urged the Tamil Nadu government … Read more

Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge speaks in the House during the Budget Session, in New Delhi on March 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI A day after the Leader of the House in the Rajya Sabha, J.P. Nadda, suggested that the Opposition needed a “refresher course” in parliamentary rules, the Opposition hit … Read more

Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Budget Session, in New Delhi on March 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI The Immigration and Foreigners Bill, which was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday (March 11, 2025), is aimed at consolidating four existing inter-linked laws, add … Read more

Leader of House in Rajya Sabha JP Nadda speaks in the House during the Budget Session, in New Delhi on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: Sansad TV Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) will get enhanced remuneration, Union Health Minister J. P. Nadda informed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday (March 11, 2025). Also Read | Kharge questions … Read more