AIMPLB fails to get BJP allies’ support on waqf Bill

All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) General Secretary Maulana Mohammed Fazlur Rahim Mujaddidi, left, and AIMPLB spokesperson Syed Qasim Rasool Ilyas address a press conference regarding the central government’s Waqf (Amendment) Bill, in New Delhi, on March 11, 2025 | Photo Credit: PTI The All India Muslim Personal Law Board’s (AIMPLB) bid to rally … Read more

PM Modi gets ‘Order of the Star and Key of Indian Ocean’ from Mauritius PM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Mauritius President Dharambeer Gokhool and Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam visit the Ayurveda Garden in the State House, established in collaboration with the Government of India, on March 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI Mauritius PM Navin Ramgoolam on Tuesday (March 11, 2025) announced its highest award ‘The Grand Commander of … Read more

Parliamentary panel to launch website to invite suggestions on simultaneous polls

Representational image. | Photo Credit: ANI The parliamentary panel examining ‘one nation, one election’ bills will soon launch a website to invite suggestions from across the country on the issue. BJP leader P.P. Chaudhary, the chairman of the Joint Committee on the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty–Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024, and the Union Territories Laws … Read more

Opposition protests delimitation, duplicate EPICs, forcing adjournment in Rajya Sabha

Proceedings of the Rajya Sabha gets adjourned during the Budget Session, in New Delhi on March 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI/Sansad TV Opposition protests demanding a debate on duplicate Electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) and the impending delimitation exercise, forced an adjournment in the Rajya Sabha for about 40 minutes on Tuesday (March 11, 2025) … Read more

Government bans J&K’s Awami Action Committee, Jammu and Kashmir Ittihadul Muslimeen for 5 years

Awami Action Committee (AAC), headed by Kashmir’s influential cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, and Jammu and Kashmir Ittihadul Muslimeen (JKIM), led by Shia leader Masroor Abbas Ansari, were banned by the Centre for their alleged anti-national activities, supporting terrorism and fuelling secessionist activities. The Awami Action Committee (AAC), headed by Kashmir’s influential cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, … Read more

States with successful family planning to lose seats in delimitation: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh

Congress MP Jairam Ramesh. Photo: Sansad TV via PTI Amid the delimitation row, the Congress on Tuesday (March 11, 2025) said that the exercise will “penalise” States that have successfully implemented family planning and reduced total fertility rates. In a lengthy post on X, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh highlighted nine States may … Read more

BSF seized ₹461 crore of contraband on India-Bangladesh border in 2024, highest in 10 years: Government

Union Minister Nityanand Rai informed Parliament that the BSF had increased deployment of its personnel at the border, constructed border fencing, installed floodlights, used watercraft and boats and also set up Border Out Posts along the riverine area. BSF personnel patrol along the India-Bangladesh border. File | Photo Credit: PTI Border Security Force has seized … Read more

India’s Got Latent: YouTuber Ashish Chanchlani appear before NCW

YouTuber Ashish Chanchlani. File | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement YouTuber Ashish Chanchlani on Tuesday (March 11, 2025) appeared before the National Commission for Women for questioning in connection with the derogatory remarks made on comic Samay Raina’s show “India’s Got Latent”, officials said. The Commission had taken serious note of the vulgar and offensive remarks … Read more