RSS leader wants India to be called only as ‘Bharat’

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

Don’t stand in the way of aspirations of students, Dharmendra Pradhan tells Tamil Nadu government

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

Kharge questions Nadda over Minister’s absence from RS

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

‘Habitual offender’ laws in effect in 14 States and UTs, says government in Lok Sabha

Proceedings in Lok Sabha during the Budget session of Parliament on March 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Legislations on “habitual offenders”, which the Supreme Court had last year “urged” States to reconsider the need for, continue to operate across at least 14 States and Union Territories in India, the Government of India revealed in … Read more

States with successful family planning record will be ‘penalised’ in delimitation exercise: Congress

Congress MP Jairam Ramesh attends proceedings in the Rajya Sabha during the Budget session of Parliament, in New Delhi, on March 11, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI/Sansad TV 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 … Read more

Western mercenaries who fought in Ukraine war are entering Myanmar via Mizoram to train rebels, claims CM Lalduhoma

Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma. Photo: mizoramassembly.in Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma has indicated that Western mercenaries who fought in the Russia-Ukraine war could be using his State as a passage to participate in the civil war in Myanmar. Also Read | Foreigners’ entry restricted in Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland Mizoram and Myanmar share a 510-km-long border. “We … Read more