Representative Image (AI-generated) NEW DELHI: From Ambassador cars, old scooters to sports cars, caravans, pistols and rifles, ministers have uploaded their assets on PMO website.As per the disclosures available on the portal for 2024-25, defence minister Rajnath Singh, agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, culture minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, social justice minister Virendra Kumar and women…
MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: External affairs ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal welcomed Mauritius Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam and his delegation in Varanasi – this time speaking in Bhojpuri.Jaiswal posted a short video clip on X where he is heard saying, “Sabnike, Banaras ke Ganga ghat se, Assi Ghat se pranaam. Khaaskar humni…
NEW DELHI: CP Radhakrishnan on Friday took oath as the 15th vice-president of India at a formal ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan. The oath was administered by President Droupadi Murmu.The swearing-in ceremony was attended by senior leaders including Prime Minister Modi, Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh. Former vice-presidents Jagdeep Dhankhar, Venkaiah Naidu and Hamid Ansari were…
NEW DELHI: The ten-day long educative debate before a five-judge Supreme Court bench on the Presidential Reference seeking the apex court’s opinion on the judiciary’s power to fix timelines for the President and governors as well as grant ‘deemed assent’ to pending bills was a serious affair but was not shorn of humour.When a bench…
PRAYAGRAJ: People insulting the national flag draw no sympathetic consideration, Allahabad HC has observed, rejecting the bail plea of a Muzaffarnagar man accused of uploading an image insulting the tricolour and posting pro-Pakistan content on his Facebook account.Vasik Tyagi was booked on May 16, 2025, for his alleged “provocative, objectionable” anti-national posts, leading to his…
NEW DELHI: The chief justice and judges of Supreme Court will go for a retreat to Ranthambore in Rajasthan this weekend and will travel in buses without beacons or escorts, a rarity for the judges of the highest court.Two Volvo buses have been hired to ferry the judges and their spouses, and each judge has…
NEW DELHI: CPI(Maoist) central committee member Modem Balakrishna, killed in a counter-Naxal operation in Gariaband district of Chhattisgarh on Thursday, was arrested thrice – at Bhadrachalam in 1984, in Mahabubnagar in 1987 and in Kurnool district in 1993.Balakrishna is the sixth central committee member to be neutralised this year. The others eliminated are Chalapathi (in…
NEW DELHI: Reminding police personnel that they have to forgo their personal bias relating to religion, race or caste after donning the uniform, Supreme Court on Thursday came down heavily on Maharashtra police for not holding a probe into the statement of an eyewitness in the communal riots in Akola in May 2023, reports Amit…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has always stuck to the cardinal constitutional principle of separation of powers, a five-judge bench led by CJI B R Gavai said Thursday, following the Centre’s emphasis on the executive, legislature and judiciary sticking to their domains. “Judicial activism” should not become “judicial terrorism”, the CJI said.The bench of CJI Gavai…
LUCKNOW: Amid the ongoing unrest in Nepal, a batch of pilgrims from Andhra Pradesh faced tense moments when miscreants attacked their bus near Kathmandu Thursday morning, looted their belongings and left several of them injured.According to police, the pilgrims were returning from a visit to Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu when their bus, bearing a UP…
