Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal in Assam’s Jogighopa on February 18, 2025. Photo: X/@sarbanandsonwal Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal on Tuesday (February 18, 2025) inaugurated an Inland Waterways Terminal (IWT) on Brahmaputra in Assam’s Jogighopa. To mark the occasion, the Minister flagged off two ships, MV Padma … Read more
File photo of AAP leader Satyendar Jain. | Photo Credit: The Hindu President Droupadi Murmu has granted the sanction to prosecute AAP leader and former Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain in a money-laundering case being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate, sources said on Tuesday (February 18, 2025). The sanction against the 60-year-old former Delhi Health Minister … Read more
Odisha Police on Tuesday (February 18, 2025) handed over the body of the Nepali female student to her father after post mortem at AIIMS Bhubaneswar, even as the incident triggered a Statewide outcry with the issue being raised in the Assembly. Prakriti Lamsal (20), a third-year B Tech (computer science) student at city-based Kalinga Institute … Read more
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. File | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to move Palestinians out of Gaza is “inhumane and unacceptable” said Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, adding that he discussed the need for all countries to speak in a united voice against it, with External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on … Read more
Rajiv Kumar, who oversaw the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and the crucial Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls, demits office on Tuesday as the 25th Chief Election Commissioner after a nearly three-year tenure marked with high electoral successes but also repeated allegations of bias by opposition parties. Mr. Kumar joined the poll panel as an Election … Read more
Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan | Photo Credit: PTI Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday (February 18, 2025) termed Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party’s objections to the selection of the next Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) as “another attempt to create controversy and peddle propaganda” around the appointment. Also Read:Gyanesh Kumar named new Chief … Read more
Mallikarjun Kharge termed as ironical the claim of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman that the Indian economy is giving good returns. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday (February 18, 2025) termed as ironical the claim of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman that the Indian economy is giving good returns, and said … Read more
BJP’s IT department head Amit Malviya . File The BJP on Tuesday (February 18, 2025) dismissed Rahul Gandhi’s criticism of the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and an Election Commissioner as “politically motivated” and accused him of undermining an elected government’s constitutional mandate through “malicious” judicial activism. The BJP’s reaction came after the Congress leader … Read more
The Vikatan magazine’s website was blocked ollowing the publication of a cartoon featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi | Photo Credit: Vikatan Group Logo/Website The Vikatan magazine’s website was blocked in India by the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting through a referral to the Department of Telecommunications, three people with knowledge of the order told … Read more
Costa Rican migration police officers speak with Venezuelan migrants at the Costa Rica. File | Photo Credit: REUTERS Costa Rica has agreed to serve as a “bridge” to repatriate illegal immigrants in the U.S., including from India and Central Asia, according to an official release on Tuesday (February 18, 2025). The first group of 200 … Read more