New Delhi, Accusing the Congress of disrupting parliament proceedings for individual interests, the ruling Bharatiya Janata party on Tuesday issued a whip to its MPs to be present in both houses for the remainder of the winter session. “The Congress is responsible for disruptions in both houses of parliament and that too for an individual’s […]
Los Angeles, Reality TV star Kim Kardashian is having her placenta freeze-dried and made into pills as she believes it will ward off postpartum depression following the birth of her second child. The reality star, who just welcomed her second child, son Saint, with husband Kanye West, shared that she’s having her placenta made into […]
New Delhi, National passenger carrier Air India on Tuesday commenced its maiden flight from Ahmedabad to London via Mumbai, making it the first domestic airline to offer direct connection between the two destinations. The airline said that the inaugural flight AI 131 operated with a Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft took off from Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel […]
Mumbai, Value-buying propelled a barometer index of the Indian equity markets into provisionally closing with gains of 170 points on Tuesday. Initially, both the bellwether indices of the Indian equity markets opened on a slightly positive note in sync with their Asian peers and a rebound in oil prices that supported energy stocks. Nevertheless, latest […]
Islamabad, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif are likely to meet next month in Switzerland, the media reported. They will attend the 46th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos-Klosters. The three-day meeting will commence on January 20. New Delhi has shown its consent for participation by Modi […]
New Delhi, The Congress and Trinamool Congress members walked out from the Lok Sabha on Tuesday amid an uproar over the chopping of limbs of two Dalit men in Abohar district of Punjab. The Bharatiya Janata Party members protested when Speaker Sumitra Mahajan asked Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia to speak after the question hour. Referring […]
New Delhi, Opposition parties took on the government on Tuesday after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the CBI raided his office over corruption charges against his secretary. The CBI said it seized cash from the officer’s house while a furious Kejriwal dubbed Prime Minister Narendra Modi “a coward and a psychopath”. Targeting secretary Rajendra […]
Kolkata, Veteran music composer Bappi Lahiri and singer Kumar Sanu were on Monday presented lifetime achievement awards by the West Bengal government. Lahiri thanked Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who handed over the award at the inauguration of the annual Bangla Sangeet Mela. Sanu could not be present, and was given the award in absentia. The […]
New Delhi, India’s retail inflation also firmed up in November to 5.41 percent from 5.0 percent in the month before, as in the case with the wholesale prices, ue largely to food items like pulses, official data showed on Monday. Data on consumer price index (CPI) released by the Central Statistics Office here, showed that the […]
New Delhi/Guwahati, The RSS and the BJP on Monday refuted the allegation by Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi that he was stopped from entering a Satra — a Vaishnavite monastery — in Barpeta in Assam. In Guwahati, the BJP’s Assam unit came out with video footage showing that the Congress and its leader Rahul Gandhi […]