The Lok Sabha on Thursday condoled the passing away of former Speaker Rabi Ray. Soon after the house met after a month-long recess, Speaker Sumitra Mahajan made the obituary references to the death of Ray along with other members Jambuwant Dhote, P. Shiv Shankar and Syed Shahabuddin. A two-minute silence was observed before the Question […]
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday asserted that the Centre has taken very serious note of the hate crimes against Indians in the US and said the Narendra Modi government will come out with a statement on the issue. “Want to assure the house, that the government has taken up incidents against Indians in […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has exuded confidence on the passage of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Bill in the Budget session of Parliament which resumed on Thursday. “There will be detailed discussion on the Budget and I am sure the level of debate and discussion will be of good quality. It will be focused […]
The US has started the process to deploy an advanced missile defence system, the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (Thaad) in South Korea to better counter growing threats by North Korea, Seoul’s defence ministry announced on Tuesday. Parts of the anti-missile system arrived on Monday at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, 70 km south of […]
US President Donald Trump on Monday signed a revised version of his executive order on immigration, that places a 90-day ban on people from six predominantly Muslim nations. The new order, which excludes Iraq from the original list of seven countries, will go into effect from March 16. The executive order bars citizens from Sudan, […]
An air ambulance, hired by Medanta Hospital, had crashlanded near Bangkok on Sunday, killing one of its pilots, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Monday. “The Air Ambulance of Medanta Hospital with five member crew caught fire and crashlanded near Bangkok. The injured were shifted to Bangkok Hospital by Army helicopters,” she tweeted on […]
Indian equity markets traded on a flat-to-negative note during the early morning trade session on Tuesday, as heavy selling pressure was witnessed in metal, automobile and healthcare stocks. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) inched down by 8.00 points or 0.09 per cent, to 8,955.45 points. The barometer 30-scrip sensitive index […]
Russian State Nuclear Energy Corporation or Rosatom closed 2016 with its overseas order book position valued around $133 billion, the company said. The company’s order book includes the orders from India which is in the process of setting up two more units at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli district around 650 km from here. Rosatom […]
Two Civil Society groups in Meghalaya have sought the intervention of President Pranab Mukherjee to stop the attacks on RSS and BJP workers in Kerala allegedly by CPM workers. The groups — Meghalaya Citizens Forum for Human Rights (MCFHR) and Meghalaya Conscious Citizen Forum (MCCF) — on Wednesday also staged a sit-in protest in Shillong, […]
The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) on Wednesday marked Zero Discrimination Day with a “Make Some Noise” campaign, urging people to speak up against discrimination. “Discrimination takes many forms, and can be based on race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or age,” Xinhua news agency quoted UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric as saying. “For this year’s […]