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New Delhi:Rendering the House dysfunctional by making a demand to the Chair that cannot be acceded is unfortunate and against public interest, Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar is learnt to have said in a letter to Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge. Dhankhar has written to Kharge stating that the ...

This columnist was suspended from Parliament on December 14, 2023, for submitting a notice demanding a statement from the Home Minister and a discussion on “the serious breach of national security in Parliament”. Since then, this columnist has been on a maun vrat (silent protest). This is the columnist’s ...

The Agnipath scheme, launched in June 2022 for the recruitment of soldiers, sailors and airmen for a four-year period, had surprised the Indian Army, while it was a “bolt out of the blue” for the Navy and Air Force, former Army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane writes in his ...

A judgement of the Hon’ble Supreme Court is the law declared and is binding on all citizens of India. It is therefore entitled to the utmost respect and obedience.  On December 10, 2023, a Constitution Bench of the Court delivered a unanimous judgement upholding the ‘abrogation’ of Article 370 ...

Raising serious concerns over a threat to coastal security the Akhil Maharashtra Machhimar Kruti Samiti (AMMKS) has sought the intervention of the central government authorities for initiating rectification measures at the earliest.In his letter emailed to union cabinet minister of fisheries, animal husbandry and dairying Parshottam Rupala, president of ...

Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is back in the country after a four-year-long self-imposed exile. On October 21, he addressed a large welcome rally in his hometown Lahore where he, in a measured tone, highlighted his political agenda for the coming election. No revenge, focus on economic development ...

Pakistani Senator Afnan Ullah Khan has caused outrage on X after posting an image of Adolf Hitler with the caption “At least now the world know, why he did, what he did #Gaza_Genicide”At least now the world know, why he did, what he did#Gaza_Genicide pic.twitter.com/7LNjSIKgib— Senator Dr. Afnan ...

Last week, I had referred to the battle lines drawn between the BJP and I.N.D.I.A. I had not used the acronym NDA because, at present, no political party of significance has declared that it is an ally of the BJP. Significant partners of the NDA in the 2019 elections ...

The RSS-affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Sunday said it has written to the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) administration for an inquiry into a recent incident of "anti-national" slogans being scribbled on the walls in the campus.The students' outfit has also demanded that the administration take immediate action to identify ...

If an English teacher wished to explain to her class the word ‘hyperbole’ and give an illustration, she cannot do better than cite the following sentence from RBI’s Bulletin for September 2023:“In September 2023, the earth’s centre of gravity shifted to India as leaders of the most powerful nations, ...