Rajya Sabha. File | Photo Credit: ANI The Union government’s Budget allocation for healthcare needs to be boosted so that it matches the the health spend of other developing nations, Rajya Sabha MPs said during a debate on the Health Ministry on Tuesday (March 18, 2025). Pointing at serious lapses in the management of healthcare … Read more
Replying to a discussion on the Demand for Grants for Railways (2025-26), Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) in the Lok Sabha that allocating ₹2.52 lakh crore as Gross Budgetary Support (GBS) for Railways is a historic decision. Mr. Vaishnaw was speaking amid noisy protests by the Opposition over not … Read more
A convention of various Central Trade Unions (CTUs) and federations of workers in the Opposition camp has decided to observe a general strike on May 20 against the Centre’s move to implement the four Labour Codes. The convention has also decided to work together with farmers’ organisations to organise joint protests against the Narendra Modi … Read more
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and party leaders Rahul Gandhi and K.C. Venugopal during a meeting with party’s general secretaries and in-charges. | Photo Credit: @kcvenugopalmp Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former party chief Rahul Gandhi met with general secretaries and leadership from the states on Tuesday to find ways to strengthen the district Congress committees … Read more
Supreme Court. File | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR Six Supreme Court judges led by Justice B.R. Gavai are scheduled to visit relief camps in Manipur on March 22 as part of a National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) outreach to lend legal and humanitarian assistance in a State which has seen months of ethnic violence … Read more
Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw speaks in the Lok Sabha. File | Photo Credit: Sansad TV The India Artificial Intelligence (AI) Mission, helmed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Parliament to access its data for training an indigenous AI model, Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on … Read more
Hindu priests, teachers and students perform ‘Havan’ for the safe return of astronaut Sunita Williams, at a school, in Ahmedabad, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI With prayers on their lips, residents of NASA astronaut Sunita Williams’ ancestral village in Gujarat are waiting for her safe return to Earth with bated breath and … Read more
Randhir Jaiswal. File Photo: YouTube/@MEAIndia India on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) hit out at Pakistan, asking it to “vacate” Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK). The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) made the comment after the Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks, made in a podcast interview, where he said … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has set aside, in separate judgments on Monday, a National Green Tribunal (NGT) order and a Madras High Court decision to halt development activities at Auroville in Chennai for lack of environmental clearance while outlining the need for sustainable development which strike a “golden balance” between the rights to development … Read more
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) warned of the likely spillover of Pakistan’s “deteriorating situation” into J&K and urged locals to stay alert in the Jammu region. “There could be an attempt to spread disturbance in J&K. Pakistan, where the situation is sliding in the past few days, may try to spread disturbance … Read more