New Delhi: MPs, India-US interim trade deal looks more like a ‘pre-committed purchase agreement’, overturning all principles of reciprocity Shashi Tharoor said on Tuesday, adding that EU ministers S Jaishankar and Piyush Goyal had avoided giving clear answers on the size, timeline or financial implications of a deal with the United States.Tharoor opened the discussion … Read more
New Delhi: Buoyed by Penguin News’ statement on the yet-to-be-published memoirs of former Army Chief (Retd) Naravane and the author’s endorsement of it, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday demanded an apology from Rahul Gandhi and accused him of making baseless claims that violated not only parliamentary convention but also law.Former Union Minister Ravi Shankar … Read more
New Delhi: A political row broke out in RS during Question Hour on Tuesday after BJP MP Samik Bhattacharya raised the issue of land encroachment at Kolkata Port and said the area has been openly called “Little Pakistan” by Kolkata Mayor and Trinamool MLA.Amid protests by opposition MPs, especially TMC, MoS ports, shipping and waterways … Read more
New Delhi: Any hope of a return to normalcy in LS was apparently dashed when the opposition stepped up its offensive and submitted a notice to oust the Speaker. In a surprising end to a week-long deadlock, fissures within the opposition were laid bare, with pragmatic voices wanting to be heard on key issues in … Read more
New Delhi: Routine restrictions on postings and transfers ordered ahead of assembly polls in four states and one union territory, election committee Their chief secretaries were asked on Tuesday to transfer all poll-related officers posted in their districts or complete three out of four years in their districts on or before May 31 if pondicherrydeadline … Read more
New Delhi: Call it the impact of artificial intelligence. As global IT leaders French President Emmanuel Macron and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gather for the Artificial Intelligence Summit, hotel room prices have soared to Rs 5.5 lakh per night, with suites in the capital’s top hotels going for as high as Rs … Read more
New Delhi: Blames Speaker About Birla The joint opposition banning the Trinamool Congress filed a notice to remove him from office on Tuesday due to “blatant partisanship” in the Lok Sabha governance, escalating growing tensions between the government and the opposition to a level that cast doubt on the future of their working relationship. Birla … Read more
New Delhi: Discussions on the no-move confidence in Lok Sabha Speaker are likely to take place on March 9, news agency ANI reported quoting sources.This comes after the opposition party launched recall proceedings About Birla As speaker of the Lok Sabha, he was accused of displaying “blatant partisanship” in the House and prompted him to … Read more
Jammu: Nearly 10 months later operation sindorThe Jammu and Kashmir border area came under heavy shelling from Pakistan, and there was no progress in building bunkers in areas including Poonch, killing at least 18 people.“No stone was moved in Uri after the surgery,” Sajjad Shafi, a lawmaker from Uri constituency in Baramulla district, told TOI. … Read more
Jammu: J&K lawmakers on Tuesday expressed concern over the potential impact of the US trade deal on Kashmiri apples, with many describing it as a “fatal blow”.“They (the center) told the United States that they can ship as much fruit and apples to the United States with zero tariffs and we will buy them here. … Read more