JAMMU: J&K assembly proceedings were disrupted Wednesday after CM Omar Abdullah’s remarks that BJP legislators had been “shoe-beaten” by Union home minister Amit Shah, triggering protests and a walkout by opposition members.BJP sources said Shah, during a three-day visit last week, had rebuked party legislators seeking separate statehood for Jammu, stressing Kashmir could not be…
GANGTOK: In view of acute water shortage at various resource points due to inadequate rainfall in winter, the water supply in the serviced zones in the state capital will be made only once every day, a senior official said on Wednesday.A trial run is being conducted by Public Health and Engineering Department (PHED) engineers to…
Minister of state for health Anupriya Patel (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: Nearly one-third of posts in the National Medical Commission (NMC), the country’s apex medical education regulator, are lying vacant, the Centre informed the Rajya Sabha on February 10, 2026.Replying to a question by Shri Vivek K. Tankha, minister of state for health Anupriya Patel…
NEW DELHI: Nearly one in every three faculty positions across India’s premier All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) is vacant, the Centre informed the Rajya Sabha, exposing large staffing gaps across both older and newly established institutes.In a written reply to a question by Shri Golla Baburao, Minister of State for Health Shri Prataprao…
A new white paper notes that “Indian migration to the UK has evolved in four distinct waves since 1947, each aligned with Britain’s shifting economic and labour needs.” and argues that it has played a central role in shaping modern Britain’s economyThe report titled “Migration of the Indian Diaspora to the UK”, released by Manish…
Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri hit out at Rahul Gandhi over Congress’s repeated attacks over the infamous Epstein files, saying he met Jeffrey Epstein only “three or four times” in a professional capacity. Leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi launched a sharp attack on the Union Budget 2026-27, accusing the government…
Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan condemned his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma’s “point-blank” video, terming it “communal hate mongering”. However, it was only weeks ago when he himself remained at the center of a controversy for supporting a communal statement in his state.Kerala’s Left has, for decades, projected itself as an ideological outlier in Indian…
Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on the recently signed India-US trade agreement, claiming the deal was poorly negotiated and compromised country’s interests.Speaking in the Lok Sabha, the Congress leader laid out what he described as the approach INDIA bloc would have taken…
NEW DELHI: IndiGo will, from Wednesday (Feb 11), operate flights as per the requirements of the new safety-enhancing flight duty norms for pilots. The dispensation given by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to the airline from following the flight duty time limitation (FDTL) for its Airbus A320 family pilots lapsed on Tuesday. The…
NEW DELHI: The Union home ministry has issued an order that all six stanzas of the national song ‘Vande Mataram’ — including the last four that were dropped by the Jawaharlal’s Nehru govt, allegedly to maintain the song’s ‘secular’ appeal — shall be sung at all official functions and other occasions.The home ministry order dated…
