NEW DELHI: Moving towards rolling out the world’s first comprehensive health insurance scheme, the government plans to expand the Ayushman Bharat health cover to over 40 crore more people who are currently not covered under any government or private health insurance scheme. While over 50 crore people (10.74 crore families) are already covered under the … Read more
NEW DELHI: After a hiatus of over two years during which Covid-19 disrupted the Supreme Court’s normal functioning, it will resume in July hearing a batch of petitions challenging the scrapping of J&K’s special status under Article 370 and its bifurcation into UTs. On mention by senior advocates Shekhar Naphade and P Chidambaram for urgent … Read more
NEW DELHI: India remains ahead of Russia and the United Kingdom as the third largest military spender in the world, but far behind China that spends four times and the United States, which spends 10 times its defence budget. The total global military expenditure rose to $2,113 billion in 2021, surpassing the two-trillion-USD mark for … Read more
NEW DELHI: An Assam court on Monday granted bail to Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani in a case over a purported tweet against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mevani, an independent legislator supported by Congress, was arrested by Assam police last week for a purported tweet in which he claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi “considered Godse as … Read more
NEW DELHI: Coming out in defence of the lawmaker couple from Maharashtra — independent MP wife Navneet Rana and her husband, MLA Ravi Rana, also an independent — BJP on Sunday accused Maharashtra’s MVA government of having hatred for Hindu faith and asked since when reciting the Hanuman Chalisa has become seditious. BJP extended its … Read more
SRINAGAR: A Lashkar-e-Taiba deputy commander wanted for killing two J&K police officers in separate attacks last year and a Srinagar teen reported missing by his family were among three terrorists shot dead in a gunfight with security forces at Pahoo in south Kashmir’s Pulwama on Sunday. Ten terrorists have been shot and killed in four … Read more
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday received the first Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar award named after the legendary singer. Dedicating the award to all Indians, the Prime Minister said, “Lata Didi was like my elder sister.” The award has been instituted in the memory of the late singer who died on February 6 this … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Sunday termed as “political vendetta” the allegation by Yes Bank co-founder Rana Kapoor who has told the Enforcement Directorate that he was “forced” to buy an M F Husain painting from party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and questioned his and the ED’s credibility. Kapoor has told the ED that he … Read more
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on his monthly radio broadcast ‘Mann Ki Baat’, brought up topics of digital or cashless transactions, water preservation among others, besides talking about the Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya. ‘Digital transactions worth Rs 20k cr recorded daily’Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said digital transactions worth Rs 20,000 crore are now being … Read more
MUMBAI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kirit Somaiya on Sunday said Mumbai Police has refused to register his FIR after he was allegedly attacked by Shiv Sena goons. “Mumbai Police has refused to lodge my FIR. Instead, they lodged a bogus FIR stating that only one stone was hurled. As many as 70-80 Shiv Sainiks … Read more