Photo credit: ANI GUWAHATI: Assam government on Monday tabled a Bill on the Uniform Civil Code, seeking to ban polygamy and make registration of live-in relationships compulsory. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Atul Bora tabled ‘The Uniform Civil Code, Assam, 2026 Bill’ in the assembly on behalf of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.The opposition parties, including Congress,…
CJI Surya Kant (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Reacting to PIL filed by a lawyer against Cockroach Janta Party, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Monday said ‘don’t take it so sentimentally.’The plea filed in the Supreme Court alleged that a distorted and malicious narrative was being pushed to malign the judiciary despite the…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has now taken suo motu cognisance of the death of Noida-based model-turned-actor Twisha Sharma, a development that has pushed the case beyond a local criminal investigation into a matter of national judicial scrutiny. The case, which began with the 26-year-old’s death under suspicious circumstances at her in-laws’ home in Bhopal…
New Delhi: Gurindervir Singh, who has become the first Indian to clock sub-10.10 seconds in the men’s 100m sprint, holds the rank of a petty officer in the Indian Navy.Congratulating the Navyman, Indian Navy said in a post on X, “THE FASTEST MAN IN INDIA WEARS WHITES. Gurindervir Singh, Petty Officer of the Indian Navy…
NEW DELHI: India and the US focused on scaling up energy, defence and critical minerals cooperation, while seeking an early conclusion of the interim trade pact, as external affairs minister S Jaishankar and his US counterpart Marco Rubio sought to revitalise ties – after a year of strife – in their first bilateral in India,…
New Delhi: With US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announcing that India has pledged to purchase goods worth $500 billion from the US over the next five years, Congress on Sunday alleged PM Modi has handed over sovereign India’s foreign policy to the US, even as it asked Modi if “capitulation” to the US on…
NEW DELHI: Amid continuing controversy over the fate of the AIADMK rebel faction in Tamil Nadu and close numbers enjoyed by governing TVK coalition, Congress MP Manickam Tagore said AIADMK won’t join the Vijay govt, and the mandate in the state is against any kind of “backdoor” politics of BJP.Tagore, an early advocate of Congress…
NEW DELHI: With political focus shifting to the battle for Uttar Pradesh, senior Congress member and former MP P L Punia wants the party to immediately start the seat-sharing talks with ally Samajwadi Party. He also wants the party to follow it up with selection of candidates without much delay.Punia told TOI, “There is not…
Australian FM to visit India for Quad FMM CANBERRA: Foreign minister of Australia, Penny Wong, announced that she will visit India to participate in the Quad Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and hold the Australia-India Foreign Ministers’ Framework Dialogue.Wong said, “In these uncertain times, the Quad is a vital partnership – four nations working together to shape…
KOLKATA: The BJP govt in Bengal has commissioned “holding centres” in all 23 districts for illegal Bangladeshi, Rohingya and other immigrants awaiting deportation, resuming a process stalled by the erstwhile Mamata Banerjee-led TMC govt for a year in defiance of MHA guidelines, report Debashis Konar and Srishti Lakhotia.The order, issued by the state home department…
