Mann Ki Baat: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing the last episode of ‘Mann Ki Baat’ of 2023, reflected upon the “excitement and enthusiasm” among people in the country regarding the inauguration of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya slated to take place on January 22, 2024, and urged people to share their creations on social media using hashtag ‘ShriRamBhajan’.
As many as 80 flights were delayed on Saturday at the Indira Gandhi International Airport due to a layer of dense fog that has continued to blanket the Delhi skies for the last few days, informed sources. Meanwhile, several trains were also delayed as fog reduced the visibility affecting the schedule of trains and flights.
Delhi Police on Saturday lodged a First Information Report (FIR) against unknown persons In connection to the low-intensity blast that took place near the Israel Embassy on December 26. The FIR has been lodged at the Tughlaq Road Police Station, police officials informed.
In a setback of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar "declined" the request put forth by Arvind Kejriwal, seeking the appointment of Raghav Chadha as the interim party leader in the Upper House, as per Parliament sources. Aam Aadmi Party sources, however, claimed Rajya Sabha officials have recommended some corrections in the letter sent to the Chairman for nominating Chadha as "interim leader" and the same would be taken into consideration.
Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday addressed a huge rally in Maharashtra’s Nagpur on the occasion of the Congress’ 139th foundation day. Speaking at the party's 'Hain Taiyyar Hum' rally, he said that the Congress will undertake a caste census after coming to power at the Centre after the Lok Sabha elections in 2024.
A Madrasa student in Uttar Pradesh's Deoband has been detained over a social media post threatening another 'Pulwama-like terror attack'. Though the student has been detained and being interrogated, security forces have also been asked to remain on high alert.
Talking tough against the drone strike on MV Chem Pluto and MV Sai Baba, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said that strict action will be taken against those behind the attacks by finding them even from the "depths of seas." MV Chem Pluto with 21 Indian crew members, was struck by a drone about 217 nautical miles from Porbandar on Saturday following which both the Indian Navy and the Indian Coast Guard deployed a number of assets to assist the ship.
COVID-19 suge in India: A total of 63 cases of the COVID-19 sub-variant JN.1 have been reported in the country till Sunday, with Goa registering the highest number of fresh cases, official sources said on Monday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (December 25) addressed the members of the Christian community on Christmas and extended greetings on the occasion.
BJP meeting: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is eyeing to win an “unprecedented majority” in next year’s general elections, as part of which Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked the key organisational leaders to work towards bolstering the party’s vote share by 10 per cent, sources said on Saturday (December 23). The development comes as the BJP held its two-day brainstorming meet of BJP's national office-bearers and state presidents on Friday and Saturday.
Land-for-job scam case: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued a fresh summons to Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav in the railway land-for-jobs scam case, asking him to appear on January 5 (Friday), official sources said today.
The INDIA alliance of opposition parties staged a 'Save Democracy' protest at Delhi's Jantar Mantar on Friday protesting mass suspension of 146 MPs. It was attended by Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, NCP chief Sharad Pawar and other opposition leaders. It was a show of opposition unity. But in Patna, Lucknow and Mumbai, there are already rumblings in the opposition bloc over the choice of PM candidate and sharing of seats.
A shocked nation watched on Thursday as two top Indian female wrestlers wept in front of the media and one of them, Sakshi Malik, Olympic bronze medalist, put her athletic shoes on the table to announce that she was quitting sports. Sitting with her was Vinesh Phogat, the first Indian woman wrestler to win gold medals in both the Asian and Commonwealth Games. Accompanying them was Bajrang Punia, 65 kg freestyle Olympic bronze medal winner and the only Indian wrestler to win four medals at the World Wrestling Championships.
Delhi liquor case: A Delhi court on Friday dismissed the bail application of AAP MP Sanjay Singh in the Delhi Excise policy PMLA case. On Thursday, the Rouse Avenue court also extended his judicial custody till January 10 when the matter was heard by Special Judge MK Nagpal.
The face-off between BJP and opposition parties over the mimicry of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar by a Trinamool MP, has snowballed into a major controversy with BJP leaders and workers staging protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Thursday. Jat community leaders have demanded apology from TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. President Droupadi Murmu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla have condemned the mimicry incident describing it as an insult to the Vice President. In Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar expressed his anguish and said it was “an insult to the dignity of the post of Vice President, the farmers and his Jat community”. Dhankhar said, “I do not care if somebody insults me personally, I will bear it, I will swallow it, but I will never tolerate if I am unable to protect the dignity of the post that I hold.”
Parliament security breach: All four accused in the Parliament security breach incident have been sent to 15-day custody of Delhi Police's special cell by the Patiala House Court. The next hearing in the case is on January 5.
Amit Shah in Lok Sabha: While speaking during the winter session of Parliament today (December 20), the Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Lok Sabha said that the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which will replace the Indian Penal Code (IPC), focuses on justice rather than punishment.
BJP veterans LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, who have been invited to the consecration ceremony of the Ram Temple, will try to attend the event on January 22, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad has informed.
India TV Poll Result: During the ongoing winter session of Parliament, a significant incident occurred on December 13, which marks the 22nd anniversary of the attack on Parliament. Two unidentified individuals entered the Lok Sabha, causing a commotion. They jumped from the gallery to the seats where Members of Parliament were seated, creating chaos during the proceedings. Prompt action by Parliament's security personnel led to the apprehension of both individuals. It was later revealed that their entry was facilitated by BJP MP Pratap Simha from Mysuru, Karnataka. This incident raised questions about the process of issuing passes for entry into Parliament. In response, India TV conducted a poll to gather public opinions on the matter.
Parliament Winter Session: Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was suspended from Lok Sabha on Monday (December 18) along with some other Opposition MPs or remainder of Winter Session, taking the total number of suspended lawmakers today to 33. 11 Congress members, 9 members each from Trinamool Congress and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), 2 MPs from Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) and 1 each from Janata Dal United (JDU) and Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) have been suspended today. So far, 92 Opposition MPs have been suspended from both Houses of the Parliament. This comes after the Opposition MPs created ruckus over the Parliament security breach incident that took place on December 13.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for the first time, reacted to the incident of security breach in Parliament on December 13. While speaking to a daily (Dainik Jagran), PM Modi said it was a sad incident. He asserted instead of arguing or protesting on accident, it is necessary to go deeper into it.
Parliament Security Breach incident: The Delhi Police on Saturday arrested Mahesh Kumawat, the sixth accused, in the Parliament security breach incident. Mahesh Kumawat, had come with Lalit Jha to surrender. However, Delhi Police Special Cell arrested him today. Kumawat has been sent to 7-day police custody.
Parliament security breach: In the latest update to the Parliament security breach case, the Patiala House Court on Friday sent Lalit Jha, one of the accused, to seven days of police remand. This comes after he was produced before the court by Delhi police. He was also provided legal aide counsel, Advocate Umakant Kataria.
Shiv Sena row: The Supreme Court on Friday granted more time to Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar to decide the cross-petitions filed by the rival factions of the Shiv Sena seeking disqualification of each other's MLAs. The top court has extended the time till January 10.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asked the ministers to take Wednesday's Parliament security breach incident seriously, sources said. In a major security breach on the anniversary of the 2001 Parliament terror attack on Wednesday, two men — Sagar Sharma and Manoranjan D — jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber from the public gallery during the Zero Hour, released a yellow-coloured smoke from canisters and shouted slogans before being overpowered by the MPs. Around the same time, two others, including a woman, raised slogans and released yellow smoke from canisters outside the Parliament premises, prompting the police to get into action and round up the duo. UPDATES
The brazen breach of security on Wednesday in Parliament, coinciding with the 22nd anniversary of Parliament terror attack, that had taken place in 2001, cannot be brushed aside as the work of a group of misguided youths. It could be part of a deeper and bigger conspiracy to defame the Modi government. The entire act was carefully planned and executed. The five persons arrested knew one another for the last four years. The mastermind of the conspiracy had carried out a recce to check the security system in the new Parliament building.
Delhi High Court on surrogacy in India: The Delhi High Court today (December 13) observed surrogacy industry should not be encouraged in India, where if left unchecked, it may grow into a billion-dollar business. The court made the observation while hearing a plea by an Indian-origin couple living in Canada challenging the March 14 notification issued by the Centre amending the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act to ban donor surrogacy by altering Form 2 under Rule 7 of the Surrogacy Rules, 2022.
Parliament security breach: In a major security breach on the anniversary of the 2001 Parliament terror attack, two persons today (December 13) jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber from the public gallery during Zero Hour and released yellow gas from canisters and shouted slogans before being overpowered by MPs.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday wrote an article in a daily (The Economics Times) titled - 'PM Modi on how SC upholding Article 370’s abrogation approves J&K no longer being an anomaly' over abrogation of Article 370 issue. His article came on the day the Supreme Court upheld the Centre's decision to abrogate Article 370, which bestowed special status on the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
In a scathing attack on Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan accused the CM of conspiring to physically harm him. The Governor's accusations stem from an incident where his vehicle was allegedly struck by members of the Students Federation of India (SFI), the student wing of the ruling CPI(M).
A five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud on Monday upheld the Centre's decision to abrogate Article 370, which bestowed special status on the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. Writing the judgement for himself and Justices Gavai and Surya Kant, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said Article 370 of the Constitution was a temporary provision and the president has the power to revoke it. The top court also upheld the validity of the decision to carve out the union territory of Ladakh from Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019. The court directed that steps shall be taken by the Election Commission of India to conduct elections to the Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir constituted under Section 14 of the Reorganisation Act by 30 September 2024. Restoration of statehood shall take place at the earliest and as soon as possible, the court said.
MK Vishwanathan, the father of journalist Soumya Vishwanathan, breathed his last on Saturday, December 9, just days after the life imprisonment sentence was pronounced for his daughter's killers. The convicts received their sentence on November 25. Unfortunately, Soumya's 82-year-old father had been hospitalized a mere two days before the court hearing, having suffered a heart attack.
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Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud has said that the polarisation across the world, with India being no exception, is marked by the growth of social media and the intolerance among communities. The CJI also noted that India’s pluralistic culture and "ability to engage in dialogue" set it apart from several other nations which got independence during the same period but could not keep hold on to democracy. He was addressing at the Jamnalal Bajaj Awards function on Friday (December 8).
Berhampur: Twenty teams of students from Industrial Training Institute (ITI), Berhampur, made items recycled from automobile scraps, e-waste, bottle caps, and TMT bars of demolished buildings, and displayed them during a three-day ‘Waste 2 Wealth’ symposium in the ITI campus, which will conclude on Saturday. The agenda was ‘sustainability through green skills’. The exhibition was attended by students from local polytechnics, engineering schools, high schools and other private institutes.
Assembly Election Results 2023: A series of high-level meetings of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took place in Delhi on Thursday as the top leadership held discussons to decide chief ministers for three states including Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh after victory in Assembly elections. In one of the meetings, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath met PM Narendra Modi while in another Amit Shah called on the Prime Minister.
Cardinal Mar George Alencherry today (December 7) said he has resigned as Major Archbishop of Syro-Malabar Church. Addressing a press conference in Ernakulam on Thursday, Cardinal Alencherry said that Pope Francis, who heads the Catholic Church has accepted his proposal to step down.
The Delhi High Court today (December 6) asked the Centre to decide expeditiously, preferably within three months, a representation to ban and cancel the licence to keep dangerous dog breeds such as Pitbull, Terriers, American Bulldog and Rottweiler.
On a day when the ruling BJP was busy trying to select its chief ministers for the states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, the opposition appeared to be unable to digest its defeat. While Congress leaders in MP blamed EVM irregularities for the defeat, a DMK MP made a derogatory and disparaging remark about the voters of these three Hindi-speaking states. Dr DNV Senthilkumar S. while taking part in a debate inside the House, said, “The people of this country must know that BJP’s only strength is how to win elections, and that too in Hindi belt states, which we call ‘Gomutra states’. They cannot win in the South. Look at the results in all southern states, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Telangana and Karnataka, where we are strong. I will not be surprised if they convert all these states into union territories and rule them from behind the curtain. Because they cannot even dream of gaining a foothold in the South and control these states.” The ‘Gomutra states’ remark was later removed from the proceedings by the Speaker.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday hit out at India's first and former Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on the issue of Jammu and Kashmir problem saying he committed two blunders due to which J&K had suffered. The first was announcing ceasefire and then taking Kashmir issue to the United Nations.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday took a jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha saying some people just read a 'padda likha bhashan' (written document) in the House adding for the past 29 years, he had remained in various Assemblies but never read a handed over documents as all his speeches are based on facts and figures. Further attacking the Congress party, Amit Shah said it can never understand what happens with the name change. Speaking on Kashmiri Pandits, the Home Minister said cannot imagine the kind of pain they went through. He further mentioned that Pakistan occupied Kashmir is ours and 24 seats have been reserved in the Parliament. The Home Minister was speaking on the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 & The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill, 2023 in the Lower House.
The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has recently unveiled the crime statistics for the year 2022, revealing a nuanced scenario of criminal activities in the country. While overall registered crimes decreased compared to the previous year, certain categories witnessed a surge.
Crime against women: The crime against women rose by 4 per cent seen in States and Union territories in 2022 as compared to 2021, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report released on Sunday. In the metro cities, with a population of over two million, an increase of 12.3 per cent was recorded in 19 Metro cities in 2022 over the preceding year.
Rahul Gandhi LS membership: The Supreme Court today (December 4) adjourned a PIL challenging the restoration of Lok Sabha membership of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who was disqualified after a court sentenced him to two years' imprisonment in a criminal defamation case over 'Modi surname' remark. A bench of Justices BR Gavai and PS Narasimha adjourned the hearing in view of a letter seeking adjournment of the case.
Assembly Election 2023 results: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh gives full credit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the landslide victory in the Assembly Election 2023 results of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh today. He said that PM Modi has created an authentic, emotional and intimate relationship with the people of the country and the commitment that BJP has made towards public welfare, development and good governance, it has established BJP as a 'Lok Ladli Party' among the masses.
Assembly Election Result 2023: After 9 hours of counting, the trends have made it clear that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is all set to maintain its stronghold in Madhya Pradesh and wrest power in Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan from the Congress. Despite the Congress party's optimism about regaining power in Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan and unseating the BJP in Madhya Pradesh, the election results have taken a completely unexpected turn. While the Bharatiya Janata Party is slated for a majority in three Hindi heartlands ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, a question dominating political discussion today is who will be the next chief minister in these states?
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Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) is honoured to announce the distinguished journalist and Padma Bhushan awardee, Rajat Sharma as the Chief Guest for the prestigious Yeshwantrao Kelkar Youth Award 2023.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Senator Bill Nelson on Wednesday met students at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian astronaut to fly in space, in Bengaluru during his maiden visit to India.
Uttarakhand tunnel rescue: The celebrations for the safe rescue of 41 trapped workers from the collapsed Silkyara tunnel of Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand are underway. There is a festival-like atmosphere in the families of the rescued workers. People are still wondering how they survived for almost 18 days and the first 9 days without food and water inside the tunnel. Meanwhile, the workers shared their stories of resilience and hope.
