The proposals to discuss governance at the RBI’s December 14 board meeting may further inflame tensions between the finance ministry and central bank. The government wants to discuss changes to the Reserve Bank of India’s governance structure at a board meeting next month, including setting up some oversight panels, Economic Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg told […]
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Decision to open corridor an unprecedented form of diplomacy, say experts As Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu and Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh together unveil a foundation stone on Monday for a six-km route leading from Dera Baba Nanak in Punjab to Kartarpur in Pakistan’s Punjab on Monday, it will not just be the reopening of a […]
PM Modi waded through questions over caste and attacks involving his parents by some Congress leaders. ALWAR: Wading through questions over his caste and attacks involving his parents by some Congress leaders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday not only gave it back to the rival political outfit, but also took on Pakistan at an […]
JAIPUR: An auxiliary nurse midwife Bhanwari Devi, who was kidnapped and murdered in a sex scandal 7 years back, is still alive in the political battle of Marwar (Jodhpur division). The CBI, which investigated this case, had arrested the then water resources minister in the Ashok Gehlot government, Mahipal Maderna and Congress MLA Malkhan Vishnoi. […]
Mumbai: BJP’s disgruntled ally in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena, has raised the pitch for the Ram temple in Ayodhya, especially in the run-up to party chief Uddhav Thackeray’s Nov 25 trip to Ayodhya. Speaking in Mumbai on Tuesday, Thackeray said, “Just like Rs 15 lakh in everyone’s account, is Ram Mandir also a jumla? When we’re […]
The hearing, which was adjourned to November 29, exposes rift within Verma’s legal camp In an unexpected twist, the Supreme Court became witness to a rift within the legal camp of exiled CBI Director Alok Verma and expressed extreme annoyance about the leaks of sensitive documents in the media. In fact, the court was so […]
Srinagar, Nov 20: Hurriyat leader Hafizullah Mir was on Tuesday shot and injured in J&K’s Achabal, Anantnag district. Reports said that gunmen shot Mir at his home in Akingam area of Achabal. He was immediately rushed to district hospital Anantnag where doctors declared him dead on arrival. Mir was released from jail last month after […]
BJP President Amit Shah Tuesday slammed the Pinarayi Vijayan government’s handling of the situation in Sabarimala as “disappointing” and accused the Kerala government of treating pilgrims as “Gulag inmates” and making them spend nights next to “pig droppings”. Asserting that his party stands firmly with every Ayyappa devotee who holds the Sabarimala tradition close to […]
Justice after 34 years A Delhi court on Tuesday awarded death penalty to convict Yashpal Singh for his role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and sentenced another convict, Naresh Sehrawat, to life imprisonment. The victims Thirty four years ago, two young Sikh men were killed by a mob in Mahipalpur village in south Delhi. The […]
The White House has restored the full press credentials of CNN reporter Jim Acosta, less than two weeks after it temporarily suspended them following the journalist’s altercation with President Donald Trump during a news conference. The Trump administration’s decision came after a judge ordered that Acosta could continue reporting at the White House. Following the […]