NEW NUCLEAR BILL THAT WAS PASSED BY PARLIAMENT
NEW DELHI: The government passed the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India bill, or SHANTI, for an administration that loves acronyms – in Parliament’s winter session, which concluded Friday. The SHANTI bill was approved via voice vote amid a walkout by most opposition lawmakers to protest something else entirely – the […]
DELHI CHOKES, BUT MPs SCRAP AIR CRISIS DEBATE OVER BAD “ATMOSPHERE”
NEW DELHI: India’s lawmakers were supposed to discuss the horrid blanket of toxic air smothering the national capital region sometime during Parliament’s winter session, which wrapped up Friday without discussing it. Discussions were held (and protests staged) over electoral reforms and the G RAM G bill that replaces the MNREGA scheme enacted in 2005 by […]
UNEASE IN TDP OVER ELEVATION OF NITIN NABIN IN BJP
NEW DELHI: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu is keeping a close watch on rapid internal developments within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) following the appointment of Nitin Nabin as the party’s new working president—an organisational move that has quietly sent ripples across the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). […]
G RAM G CLEARS LOK SABHA AMID UPROAR, OPPOSITION TEARS COPIES
NEW DELHI: The G Ram G Bill, which will replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), was passed in the Lok Sabha amid a massive protest by the Opposition MPs Thursday morning. Members of the Opposition, who wanted the Bill sent to a standing committee, protested in the Well and tore up […]
BANGLADESH HIGH COMMISSIONER SUMMONED AFTER “SEVEN SISTERS” REMARK
NEW DELHI: India has summoned Bangladesh’s High Commissioner in New Delhi, Muhammad Riaz Hamidullah, to issue a formal diplomatic protest over recent threats to the Indian High Commission in Dhaka and inflammatory anti-India statements from Bangladeshi political leaders. The summons comes after a leader of Bangladesh’s National Citizen Party (NCP) threatened that Dhaka would shelter […]
MANISH TEWARI OPPOSES SHANTI BILL ON PRIVATISATION OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Manish Tewari on Wednesday rose in the Lok Sabha to oppose the Bill, noting that it replaced two existing legislations. He questioned no liability clause on the foreign suppliers while opening up the nuclear sector. How is it going to help India, he asked. He outlined the history of India’s nuclear […]
CONG MPs PROTEST AFTER COURT REJECTS ED CASE IN NATIONAL HERALD MATTER
NEW DELHI: Senior leaders and Members of Parliament from the Indian National Congress on Wednesday staged a protest within the Parliament House complex, a day after a Delhi court declined to take cognisance of the Enforcement Directorate’s money-laundering complaint in the National Herald case involving Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.News subscription service Carrying placards and […]
MODI, AMIT SHAH MUST RESIGN: CONG AFTER RELIEF IN NATIONAL HERALD CASE
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Wednesday (December 17, 2025) demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s resignation after a Delhi court refused to take cognisance of the ED’s money laundering charge against Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case. The opposition party also vowed to expose the “vendetta […]
SC PULLS UP ELECTION COMMISSION ON SPECIAL INTENSIVE REVISION OF ELECTORAL ROLLS
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday (December 9) pulled up the Election Commission of India (ECI) for providing “mechanical and cyclostyled” responses to genuine voter grievances, raising serious questions about the procedural integrity of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Chief Justice of India Surya Kant voiced the court’s exasperation at […]
NEW JAIL MANUAL PUBLISHED
NEW DELHI: Minister of State for Home Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Tuesday told the Lok Sabha in a written reply that the Model Prison Manual just published to reduce overcrowding in jails. He also gave details of three criminal laws made effective from July 1, 2024. He disclosed that the maximum period for which an […]
