New Delhi, Feb 5: Multiple exit polls on Wednesday predicted BJP winning the tightly-contested Delhi assembly election comfortably while ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is seen losing the electoral battle. The pollsters have forecast a complete rout of the Congress party with the grand old party barely in the race. Most exit polls pegged Congress...
Amritsar, Feb 5: A US military plane carrying 104 Indians deported from the US landed at Amritsar airport on Wednesday afternoon. The US Army’s C-17 aircraft, carrying the illegal Indian immigrants, landed at Sri Guru Ramdasji International Airport, Amritsar. According to sources, the 104 Indians included 25 women and 79 men, besides 13 children. Of...
Calls For ‘Ruthless’ Action Against ‘Infiltration, Acts Of Terror’ Srinagar, Feb 5: Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Amit Shah chaired a high-level review meeting on the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir in New Delhi on Tuesday. The meeting was attended by the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, Manoj Sinha, the Union...
New Delhi, Feb 5: Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the people of Delhi to participate in this festival of democracy with full enthusiasm and cast their valuable vote. The voting for 70 Assembly seats in the national capital began at 7 AM and it will continue till 6 PM. Taking on social media posts on...
New Delhi, Feb 4: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the Opposition in the Lok Sabha saying ‘Some leaders speak language of urban naxals, talk of waging war against the Indian state and they cannot understand the Constitution.’ Replying to the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address in the...
New Delhi, Feb 4: The Indian Embassy in Libya has facilitated the return to the country of 18 stranded Indian nationals from Benghazi, Libya. The MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said in a post on X, that the 18 Indians will be arriving to the country tomorrow. “They had gone to work in Libya and had...
New Delhi, Feb 4 : A US military C-17 aircraft has left for India with illegal migrants onboard, a news report said, days after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio voiced concerns over “irregular migration” during his first bilateral meeting with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in Washington last month. According to a Reuters report,...
New Delhi, Feb 4: The President of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly (PGA), Philemon Yang, is on an India visit, at the invitation of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. During the Feb 4-7 visit, PGA Yang and the EAM will discuss key multilateral and regional issues of mutual interest. Yang will also...
New Delhi, Feb 3: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi on Monday said the biggest issue before the country is to tackle the problem of unemployment and neither the UPA nor the NDA governments have given an answer to the youth of the country. Participating in the motion of thanks to the President’s...
New Delhi, Feb 1 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday termed Union Budget 2025-26 as “People’s Budget” and emphasized that, “It reflects our Government’s commitment to fulfilling the aspirations of 140 crore Indians”. Speaking after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget in the Lok Sabha, Modi said, “This budget is a force...
New Delhi, Feb 1: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Saturday termed the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman as “A band-aid for bullet wounds”. Taking to his social media handle X, Gandhi said, “Amid global uncertainty, solving our economic crisis demanded a paradigm shift. But this government is bankrupt...
New Delhi, Feb 1: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said that the government will facilitate setting up of day care cancer centres in all district hospitals in the next 3 years. Presenting Union Budget 2025, Sitharaman said, “200 Centres will be established in 2025-26.” To provide relief to patients, particularly those suffering from cancer,...
New Delhi, Feb 1: In a major push to clean energy transition, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced a Nuclear Energy Mission to promote research and development of small modular reactors, with an outlay of Rs 20,000 crore. Presenting Union Budget 2025-26 in the Lok Sabha, Sitharaman said, “The development of at least 100...
New Delhi, Feb 1: In a major relief for common man, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced that there will be no tax payable on income upto Rs 12 lakh a year, up from Rs 7 lakh till now. “I am now happy to announce that there will be no income tax payable...
New Delhi, Feb 1 : Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced the Prime Minister Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana that aims to enhance agricultural productivity in 100 districts with low productivity and will benefit 1.7 crore farmers. Presenting her straight eighth Union Budget in the Lok Sabha, Sitharaman termed “Agriculture as the 1st Engine”, and...