The Indian wedding tourism industry has been estimated to be around ₹5 lakh crore and is considered a sunshine sector. | Photo Credit: PTI To boost wedding tourism, the Centre has asked all States and Union Territories to facilitate an easy and uniform process of marriage registration even for couples other States. A senior Union … Read more
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar speaking at the 65th convocation ceremony of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University on February 22, 2025. Photo: X/@VPIndia Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday (February 22, 2025) claimed that illegal immigrants are interfering in the country’s electoral process, and there should be awareness about this. In apparent reference to the recent … Read more
Congress Spokesperson Pawan Khera addresses a press conference. File. | Photo Credit: ANI The political row over the reported $21 million USAID funding for voter turnout in India continued into Saturday (February 22, 2025), with the Congress citing a U.S. media report and doubling down on its demand of a white paper on the USAID … Read more
Aam Aadmi Party leader Durgesh Pathak. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday (February 24, 2025) a plea of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Durgesh Pathak for the dismissal of a petition challenging his election from Delhi’s Rajinder Nagar Assembly seat in a 2022 bypoll. A bench … Read more
Former Reserve Bank of India Shaktikanta Das has been appointed as the Principal Secretary-2 to Prime Minister. | Photo Credit: ANI The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Department of Personnel and Training, on Saturday (February 22, 2025) appointed former RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das as the Principal Secretaryt-2 to … Read more
Congress MP K.C. Venugopal. File. | Photo Credit: ANI The Congress on Saturday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to heed to his friend, U.S. President Donald Trump, for using paper ballots and not machines for voting to address the concerns of the entire country on the integrity of India’s electoral process. Congress general secretary, organisation, … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Prime Minister of Bhutan Dasho Tshering Tobgay during a meeting, in New Delhi, March 14, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI India and Bhutan enjoy “exemplary ties” of friendship and cooperation, based on trust, goodwill and mutual understanding at all levels, and the visit of Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay was in … Read more
Vasundhara Oswal, daughter of Indian-origin billionaire Pankaj Oswal, speaks during an interview with PTI, in Mumbai, on Feb. 21, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Vasundhara Oswal, daughter of Indian-origin billionaire Pankaj Oswal, who was jailed falsely on charges of kidnapping and murder of her father’s former employee in Uganda, claimed that her more than three-week … Read more
Image used for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto India and Japan are set to take part in a joint military exercise starting February 24, aiming to enhance interoperability between the two forces while undertaking joint urban warfare and counter-terrorism operations under UN mandate. The exercise underscores the shared commitment of India and … Read more
Union Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Shivraj Singh Chouhan. File. | Photo Credit: PTI Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday (February 22, 2025) slammed Air India for allotting him a “broken and sunk” seat and described it as an “unethical” practice wherein the airline charges passengers full fare and then makes them … Read more