Rahul Gandhi held a video call with Sahil Wakode’s parents to offer support after their son’s death. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi spoke to the parents of deceased IIT Bombay student Sahil Wakode and assured them of all possible help in their fight to seek justice for their son, party sources said told PTI on Thrusday.Rahul…
German envoy Jasper Wieck NEW DELHI: Germany’s relationship with India has assumed greater importance amid growing global uncertainty, with the two countries looking to deepen cooperation in trade, defence and labour mobility, German ambassador to India, Jasper Wieck, said at a press conference Wednesday.He said Germany was ready to sign an $8 billion deal with…
CDSCO warns against misuse of painkillers, antibiotics over kidney disease risk. (Photo: ANI) NEW DELHI: Taking painkillers repeatedly for everyday aches or antibiotics without proper medical advice could put people at risk of kidney complications and other adverse effects, prompting the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) to issue a fresh advisory on their rational…
Jaishankar said energy security is at the heart of development, and availability and prices should not be manipulated for political ends. Chairing a high-level meeting of Global South countries on the sidelines of UNGA, external affairs minister S Jaishankar stressed the need to work towards food and energy security, fair economic and trade practices, while…
India rejects OIC’s Kashmir remarks NEW DELHI: Govt categorically rejected in a statement the “unwarranted and factually incorrect” references to India in the joint communique of the so-called OIC Contact Group on J&K, saying the grouping has “no locus standi to pronounce on matters that are strictly internal” to India.“The entire UTs of J&K and…
PM Modi and Canadian PM Mark Carney (File photo) Canadian PM Mark Carney has said his counterpart, Narendra Modi, could travel to Canada in Dec, while citing good progress in negotiations for a trade agreement.He said the two sides were hoping to wrap up trade talks by Dec and he was looking forward to hosting…
SC: Constitution bench should deal with case to prevent delay NEW DELHI: On a day when Election Commission found itself under the scanner, a two-judge bench of Supreme Court gave a split verdict on whether the issue of validity of the law on appointment of CEC/ECs be referred to a constitution bench, but later agreed…
He said opposition parties had questioned the functioning of the three election commissioners both when they appeared to agree and now when correspondence between them has emerged. NEW DELHI: Differences of opinion within EC are a sign of its democratic functioning, BJP said Wednesday as it mounted a strong counter-charge against the Opposition over its…
It would not be a fallacious metaphor if it is said that since the umpire is picked by the captain of one side … and his team wins, even if the decisions taken by such umpire are correct, it has the patina of suspicion: Justice Dipankar Datta NEW DELHI: Deliberating on the validity of the…
SRINAGAR: Tap water existing only on paper, people in some areas still having to hire horses for “transporting drinking water to their houses”, water pipes abandoned and littered around at some places are some of the damning observations in the report by a J&K assembly committee that was formed to probe alleged irregularities in the…
