New Delhi: The Delhi Police has filed a case against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, senior journalist Rajdeep Sardesai, The Caravan and others for allegedly misleading public regarding the death of a protester at ITO during the violence on Republic Day, officials said on Saturday. The case has been registered at the IP Estate police station … Read more
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday praised the scientists and technicians for the two ‘Made in India’ Covid-19 vaccines approved by the government a day earlier. Meanwhile, the centre continued to lash out at the opposition for raising doubts over the vaccine developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech. “The new year has brought with … Read more
New Delhi: Ahead of a crucial meeting of Sonia Gandhi with a section of senior leaders who had written to her in August demanding an overhaul of the organisation, the Congress on Friday downplayed any internal dissensions and said Rahul Gandhi was the “right person” to lead the party. Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said … Read more
A man celebrates the Supreme Court verdict on the Ayodhya dispute in Ayodhya. (Express Photo) By Amitabh Ranjan When the Prime Minister of India, sporting a longish white beard in saffron vestments, prostrated himself in Ayodhya on August 5 this year and was part of the bhoomi-pujan to consecrate the ground on which a magnificent … Read more
NEW DELHI: In the wake of Shashi Tharoor-led Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology repeatedly taking up the matter of suspension of internet services in Jammu and Kashmir, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla has written to the Lok Sabha Secretary General expressing national security and the matter being sub-judice in the Supreme Court as the … Read more
New Delhi: The Hindutva movement is the “mirror image” of the Muslim communalism of 1947 and its triumph would mark the end of the Indian idea, says senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, asserting that Hindutva is a political doctrine, not a religious one. A ‘Hindu India’ would not be Hindu at all, but a “Sanghi … Read more
NEW DELHI: Six senior Congress leaders — all part of the group that had recently written to Sonia Gandhi on organisational and ideological matters of the party — have issued a joint statement, this time criticising the Modi government’s policies in the defence sector. The leaders accused the government of compromising national security interests and … Read more
BJP shouldn’t rejoice. It is dangerously close to emulating Congress. Synopsis The Cabinet may be suffering from a misallocation of portfolios. Nirmala Sitharaman is an upright and diligent finance minister with a background in economics. But should not her talent be better utilised in another important portfolio, leaving finance to say, railways and commerce minister … Read more
New Delhi: Amid a political slugfest over the Facebook issue, the company’s India head Ajit Mohan on Wednesday appeared before a parliamentary panel, which is discussing alleged misuse of social media platforms. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, headed by senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, had called representatives of Facebook to hear their views … Read more