BIHAR WATER Resources Minister Sanjay Kumar Jha on Wednesday disputed figures reported by the Centre on the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) dashboard, saying only 8.44 lakh tap water connections have been provided in Bihar under the central scheme for rural households, and not 1.46 crore as shown. The rest of the tap water co | Read more|
As tension mounted the night before the airlift of Indian diplomats and civilians from Kabul, the Indian establishment worked closely with the US for the evacuation Tuesday. In New Delhi, the Ministry of External Affairs coordinated closely with the US embassy to fly the Indians out of Kabul. | Read more|
Even before the first group of 19 Afghan refugees landed in Germany on Wednesday, the line was making the rounds in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party: “2015 mustn’t be repeated.” Armin Laschet, who wants to succeed Merkel as chancellor after next month’s elections, said it Monday. A top party offi | Read more|
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met UN Climate Change Conference President Alok Sharma and discussed various issues related to climate change. | Read more|
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Wednesday said the solicitor general telling the Supreme Court that the government has information which he cannot divulge in public by way of an affidavit is a "confession" that software-spyware was used, and sought to know if it was Pegasus and for what purpose it was used. | Read more|
The Taliban have pledged not to seek "revenge" against their opponents in Afghanistan in their first press conference since taking power, as the United States said they would hold the terrorists to their promises to respect human rights. | Read more|
A Delhi court has discharged Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who was booked under sections of subjecting a woman to cruelty and abetment to suicide in connection with the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar. Special Judge Geetanjali Goel pronounced the order in a virtual hearing in which Tharoor was present. As Goel discharg | Read more|
Issuing a slew of directions to improve the functioning of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Tuesday observed that the agency should be made an independent statutory body like the Election Commission or Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Bar & Bench reported | Read more|
The CBI has registered cases against former Kerala chief minister Oomen Chandy, AICC general secretary K C Venugopal and three other Congress leaders in connection with allegations of sexual exploitation made by a woman accused in the 2013 solar scam. In January this year, the LDF government had handed over the cases t | Read more|
As India prepares itself for the reality of a Taliban-governed Afghanistan again, it is assessing its strategic policy given that both Pakistan and China will move to exercise influence over the next regime in Kabul. | Read more|
he Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a Maharashtra government plea against a CBI probe into Anil Deshmukh, the ex-Home Minister who faces corruption allegations. The top court underlined its displeasure, saying the state's filing of the petition made it seem like it is trying to protect Mr Deshmukh. The state should | Read more|
Keeping in line with the party's "one-person-one- post" policy, the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal on Tuesday initiated changes in about 100 municipalities and brought in new faces replacing old leaders who have been holding several other posts, a senior minister said. | Read more|
New Zealand began a strict nationwide lockdown as it faces an outbreak of the delta variant, which on Wednesday was linked to the worsening Covid-19 crisis in neighboring Australia as cases in New South Wales rose to a record high of more than 600. | Read more|
Amid escalating tensions in Afghanistan, India Tuesday said that it has decided to evacuate its embassy staff in Kabul. “In view of the prevailing circumstances, it has been decided that our Ambassador in Kabul and his Indian staff will move to India immediately,” MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said in a statement | Read more|
The Centre Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it has “nothing to hide” in the Pegasus row and that the matter concerns “national security.” A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) N V Ramana issued a notice to the Centre and said that the government must reply within ten days on allegations that the Isr | Read more|