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Parliament clears bill to regulate appointment of top election officials
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Thursday cleared the bill to regulate the appointment of top election officers in the Lok Sabha. The Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of…
Central Force CISF To Handle Parliament Security Instead Of Delhi Police
New Delhi: Access to the Parliament complex - a particularly high-profile issue after last week's security breach - will now be guarded by the Central Industrial Security Force, or CISF, the government said this afternoon.
The CISF will…
Arvind Kejriwal skips ED’s summons
New Delhi: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has called the Enforcement Directorate (ED) second summons ‘illegal and politically motivated’ and asked the ED to withdraw the summons, officials at the chief minister’s office said…
Covid variant JN.1: India logs 21 cases
Bhubaneswar: With the reports of the arrival of the JN.1 Covid variant in India, 2669 active cases were reported in 24 hours on Thursday. According to the Union Health Ministry, an uptick in Covid cases has been observed in Kerala,…
Karnataka techie, an MNC employee, detained in Parliament security breach probe
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Wednesday detained a software engineer employed with an MNC from Karnataka's Vidyagiri in connection with the December 13 Lok Sabha security breach incident. According to reports, Sai Krishna Jagali, the…
DMK minister K Ponmudy gets 3 yrs in prison in DA case
Chennai: The Madras High Court on Thursday sentenced Tamil Nadu state’s higher education minister K Ponmudy to 3 years of simple imprisonment in a ₹1.75-crore disproportionate assets case, ANI reported.
The court also imposed a fine of…
PM Modi rejects talk of amending Constitution
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has rejected any talk of amending the Constitution as meaningless and said his government’s “most transformative steps” have been realised without doing so and through public participation.
In an…
INDIA bloc to hold march till Parliament over MPs suspension
New Delhi: Union home minister Amit Shah will move the three new criminal code bills for consideration and passage in Rajya Sabha on Thursday. The Bharatiya Nyaya (Second) Sanhita, 2023, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha (Second) Sanhita, 2023…
Maoists Torch Passenger Bus, 2 Trucks In Odisha-Chhattisgarh Border
Malkangiri: Maoists set on fire a passenger bus en route to Telangana via Kanta village in Sukuma and two trucks in the Sukuma district of Chhattisgarh bordering Odisha’s Malkangiri district.
According to the information, 10 to 12 armed…
Rahul Gandhi denies sharing mimicry clip on V-P, says it stays on his phone
New Delhi: Rejecting claims that he shared the mimicry clip on Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said the video which he took “remains on his phone”.
Questioning “who disrespected and how,” Gandhi…