Union home minister Amit Shah NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Thursday said the entire northeast region, barring one or two states, may be out of purview of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act by next year.Speaking at the signing of a tripartite memorandum of understanding (MoU) among the Centre, govt of Assam and…
Karnataka chief minister DK Shivakumar met Prime Minister Narendra Modi with during a meeting in New Delhi. (@PMOIndia/X) Thursday’s meeting marked the first occasion when chief ministers of all 28 states attended the Niti Aayog governing council deliberations with CMs steering clear of any political rancour, marking a sharp departure from boycotts and absences in…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the the Economic Advisory Council meeting. NEW DELHI: As govt gears to undertake a delimitation exercise in the coming month, a working paper by the Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister (EAC-PM) has suggested India should split Lok Sabha’s 170 large constituencies using a “targeted criterion” instead of a uniform…
Calling housewives “nation builders”, Supreme Court for the first time said in case of a homemaker’s death in an accident, the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal will calculate the compensation to be paid to her family by assuming her monthly income to be at least Rs 30,000.Pained by the 25-year delay, 22 of which were because…
NEW DELHI: India’s next big tech leap won’t be AI — it’ll be quantum. That was the message from union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, who announced an Advanced Quantum Computing and Quantum Communications Lab at MNIT Jaipur on Thursday.Set up under MeitY’s Electronics and ICT Academic Project, the lab will build homegrown muscle in Quantum…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Thursday said the entire northeast region, barring one or two states, may be out of purview of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act by next year.Speaking at the signing of a tripartite memorandum of understanding (MoU) among the Centre, Govt of Assam and Govt of Nagaland for oil…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the chief ministers of Karnataka, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, and Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the 11th Niti Aayog Governing Council Meet, in New Delhi.The leaders held talks on a range of topics, including state affairs. Some of them also congratulated…
NEW DELHI: With the West Asia crisis bringing electrification of economy back into focus, the countries participating in dialogues to deal with challenges of climate change may by the year-end agree to a new global target of electricity meeting 35% of the world’s energy demand by 2035.A proposal to this effect was made by the…
Arvind Kejriwal (Image source: ANI) NEW DELHI: AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s message thanking US President Donald Trump for his wishes and said India’s sovereignty, dignity and national interest should remain paramount in its dealings with foreign nations.Reacting to a post by Modi on X in which he…
AI-generated image used for representation NEW DELHI: “Andhera chhatega, suraj niklega, kamal khilega … “ When Atal Bihari Vajpayee had said this after BJP’s humiliating two-seat performance in the 1984 Lok Sabha elections, it was more of a statement of faith than a prophecy.More than four decades later, the BJP under Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
