The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has set for itself a two-year timeframe to bring down inflation closer to its 4 percent target, Governor Shaktikanta Das told a television channel on August 23. “We have said earlier that we would like to bring down inflation over a time period of about two years or so,” […]
The Delhi High Court has said that a girl on attaining puberty “could marry without consent of her parents” under the Muslim laws and has the right to reside with her husband even when she is otherwise minor. Justice Jasmeet Singh made the observation in the case of a Muslim couple who married on March […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said petitions relating to the political dispute in Maharashtra between factions of the Shiv Sena, one led by Uddhav Thackeray and the other by Eknath Shinde, will be heard by a 5-judge Constitution bench on Thursday, August 25. The pleas are in connection with defection, merger and disqualification of MLAs. […]
Hearing a plea seeking a ban on the ‘freebie culture’ during elections, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said a debate on the matter was needed for the welfare of the country. Chief Justice of India N V Ramana highlighted the need to differentiate between a promise made by a politician as a ‘freebie’ and a […]
Members include ex-Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian, welfare economist and social scientist Jean Dreze, and former Union Finance Secretary S Narayan Tamil Nadu on Monday constituted a five-member economic advisory council to the Chief Minister – which includes Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo and former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan – to guide Chief Minister MK […]
Extending intervals between vaccine doses could leave people vulnerable to infection by one of the Covid variants in circulation, Dr Anthony Fauci, the medical advisor to the United States President, told NDTV Friday. Dr Fauci was responding to a question about recommended intervals in the light of revised guidelines by the Indian government last month. “The […]
New Delhi [India], June 8 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allow the implementation of doorstep ration delivery scheme in the national capital. “Till date, I have supported you in all the work of national interest, you should also support us for the same. The scheme should […]
New Delhi [India], June 8 (ANI): Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly and BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi on Tuesday to discuss the alleged violence against BJP workers in the state. Adhikary arrived in the national capital late on Monday night. According to sources, Adhikari will […]
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 8 (ANI): Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar met Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray at his official residence Varsha a day before the latter’s meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi today. According to sources, the two leaders discussed key issues to taken up before the Prime Minister. A […]
New Delhi [India], June 8 (ANI): Former Union Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Monday said Punjab Government should not have sold COVID vaccines to private hospitals. Responding to a question on the alleged selling of COVID vaccines by Punjab Government to private hospitals, the Congress leader said, “I agree that Punjab government […]
New Delhi [India], June 8 (ANI): After Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of centralised COVID-19 vaccination drive for all adults for free, former union minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Monday said the underlying message is that the government has learned from their mistakes. Speaking to ANI, Chidambaram said that nobody said that […]
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday demanded the immediate dismissal of Health minister Balbir Singh Sidhu for presiding over alleged vaccine and ‘Fateh kit’ scams. He asserted that if this was not done till June 15, the SAD would ‘gherao’ the residence of chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh. The SAD President […]
