CROSS-VOTING FEARS IN RAJYA SABHA POLLS
NEW DELHI: With political strengths redrawn after the recent state-level elections, polls to fill 27 Rajya Sabha seats will be the next major electoral event later this month–one that will be closely watched amid cross-voting possibilities. The BJP is geared up for the June 18 election, with sources saying that a meeting of the party’s […]
CENTRE APPOINTS FIVE SUPREME COURT JUDGES
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Monday notified the appointment of five new judges to the Supreme Court of India, taking the headcount of the country’s top court to 38 (Chief Justice plus 37 judges) from 34, according to a statement by the Union law and justice ministry. The newly notified judges are Justice Sheel Nagu, […]
TRUMP’S IRAN MEET ENDS WITHOUT FINAL DECISION
NEW DELHI: Undeterred by the spiralling global energy markets and a shadow looming over his ratings ahead of the November midterms, US President Donald Trump on Saturday walked out of a two-hour White House Situation Room meeting without any decision on a potential deal to end the Iran war. A senior administration official told the […]
9 WITH LINKS TO PAK’S ISI ARRESTED IN DELHI
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police Special Cell has arrested nine suspected terrorists allegedly linked to a Pakistan-based network involving the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and elements of the Mumbai underworld group of Dawood Ibrahim. Officials said the accused were planning attacks on key installations and security personnel in Delhi, Mumbai and other major cities. According to […]
SOCIAL SECURITY SCHEMES FOR GIG WORKERS
NEW DELHI: The government is moving to roll out social security benefits for gig and platform workers, including accident insurance, health coverage, maternity support and old-age protection, while pushing platform companies to integrate worker data with the e-Shram portal before the June 22 deadline, a senior Labour Ministry official said on Friday. Addressing a stakeholders’ […]
BELOW NORMAL MONSOON LIKELY THIS SEASON
NEW DELHI: India is heading into a challenging monsoon season, with the weather department forecasting below-normal rainfall across most of the country and warning of an above-normal number of heatwave days in several states starting as early as June. The India Meteorological Department on Friday issued its second-stage long-range forecast for the June-September monsoon season, […]
18 LIQUOR DEATHS IN PUNE DISTRICT
NEW DELHI: Police have intensified investigation into an illicit liquor network in the Pune district after 18 people died in the last 48 hours following the consumption of methanol-laced alcohol. While 13 people died in Pimpri Chinchwad’s Phugewadi and Dapodi, five died in Pune’s Hadapsar and Kalepadal after allegedly consuming the liquor. While the police […]
ILLEGAL MIGRANTS VOTED IN BENGAL FOR YEARS
NEW DELHI: Fear and uncertainty are unfolding at the Hakimpur border in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, where dozens of undocumented Bangladeshi migrants have gathered over the past two days seeking to return to Bangladesh. This comes amid growing pressure from authorities and the setting up of holding centres for illegal migrants across the […]
STRATEGIST DK SHIVAKUMAR TO BE KARNATAKA CM
NEW DELHI: Karnataka deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar, wanted by Congress in various states as a trouble shooter, will be the Chief Minister to lead the party into the 2028 re-election campaign. Even DK touched his feet and hugged the outgoing CM at a cabinet meeting called by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah over a breakfast meeting […]
PUNJAB CM REJECTS ALLIANCE WITH CONGRESS
NEW DELHI: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday rejected suggestions of any “contradiction” or “political inconsistency” in the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) approach to alliances, stating that national-level cooperation and state-specific poll strategies are different. The Punjab Chief Minister was responding to a question by NDTV’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Rahul Kanwal on how the […]
