New Delhi, Jan 28 (PTI) Union Health Minister J P Nadda said Tuesday the US announcing to exit the World Health Organization (WHO) will not impact the programmes going on India in partnership with the global agency. "Our projects and programmes will continue. As far as health is concerned, we are not dependent on anybody," he told a press conference on the progress made in the last 10 years under the National Health Mission (NHM). "There are many programmes where WHO partners with us and there...Read More
New Delhi [India], January 28 (ANI): The draft report on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024 has been sent to members of the Joint Parliamentary Committee ahead of the meeting of the panel on Wednesday, sources said with the panel having cleared amendments to 14 clauses. While JPC Chairman Jagdambika Pal has said that the democratic process was followed in the deliberations, opposition members have said that very little time has been given to them to go through the large draft report and give their...Read More
New Delhi, Jan 28 (PTI) Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena wrote to Chief Minister Atishi on Tuesday alleging that AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal's accusations that "poison" is being mixed in the Yamuna water and there is an "attempt of genocide" in the national capital are highly objectionable and unfortunate, and amount to endangering national security. No immediate reaction was available from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over the LG's letter. Citing media reports and a report by the Delhi chief ...Read More
Latehar (Jharkhand), Jan 28 (PTI) An 'area commander' of a banned Maoist splinter group, who was carrying a Rs 2-lakh bounty on his head, was arrested in Jharkhand's Latehar district, police said on Tuesday. The self-styled area commander of Jharkhand Jan Mukti Parishad (JJMP) was apprehended from a forest area near Semariyatand village on Monday, they said. Latehar SP Kumar Gaurav said the Maoist was sent to jail on Tuesday. "Based on a tip-off, the police arrested him from Semariyatand vill...Read More
Nainital: The Uttarakhand High Court on Tuesday took suo motu cognisance of the Roorkee clash between independent MLA Umesh Kumar and ex-BJP MLA Kunwar Pranav Singh Champion, calling it "shameful and unforgivable." The high court ordered the Haridwar district magistrate and senior superintendent of police to take strict action against those involved in the incident. The vacation bench of Justice Rakesh Thapliyal said that the "display of muscle power in Devbhoomi is shameful and unforgivable"....Read More
Kokrajhar (Assam), Jan 28 (VOICE) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday that there are several reports that some sections of Bangladeshi establishment are trying to revive militancy in Assam with the help of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). He was in Bodoland (Kokrajhar) to commemorate five years of the 2020 Bodo Peace Accord. On this occasion, he said that for the last three-and-a-half years, there was not even a political agitation in Bodoland. After the acco...Read More
Tuesday, 28 January 2025 () Rahul Gandhi alleged that Arvind Kejriwal 'shivers' at the mention of PM Modi, sparking backlash from Kejriwal. Kejriwal countered, questioning why Rahul and his family haven't been arrested in the National Herald case and implying preferential treatment towards Robert Vadra. The remarks highlight internal friction between opposition INDIA bloc allies ahead of Delhi assembly elections....Read More
New Delhi, Jan 27 (UNI) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has released its manifesto for the next month Assembly election with 15 guarantees, including employment and the women's dignity scheme. While releasing the manifesto on Monday, AAP's national convener and former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said, "Kejriwal's guarantees are solid," emphasising that free electricity for 24 hours, free water, free education, free pilgrimage for senior citizens, free bus travel for women, and free medical treatment i...Read More
Hyderabad, Jan 27 (Maxim News): Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Bandi Sanjay, while hearing allegations that the state has been treated unfairly in the Padma Awards, said that the state government has not sent eligible people for the Padma Awards, and the Center will not give awards to everyone sent by the State government. He said that only those who are eligible will get the awards. He made strong comments that a Gaddar is a person with Naxal ideology. Click Here To Join Us On Whats...Read More
Ranchi/New Delhi, Jan 27 (VOICE) The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the High Court's decision to quash an FIR lodged against 28 BJP leaders, including BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, former Jharkhand Chief Ministers Babulal Marandi and Raghubar Das, former Union Minister Arjun Munda, and BJP MP Sanjay Seth, in the Jharkhand Secretariat siege case. The apex court dismissed the Jharkhand government's Special Leave Petition (SLP) challenging the High Court's ruling. During the hearing, a Bench comprising ...Read More
Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh) January 27 (ANI): Spiritual leader and orator Devkinandan Thakur on Monday said that the Sanatana Dharma Sansad, which he convenes at the ongoing Mahakumbh, is organised for safeguarding Sanatanis. Devkinandan Thakurji Maharaj, as he is popularly known, said that the Dharma Sansad has been called for a board that can bring all our puja, tradition, culture, and Gau mata together and protect them. Also Read | Mahakumbh 2025: After Taking Holy Dip, Union Home Minister Am...Read More
Bengaluru, Jan 27 (PTI) A fire broke out at an electric vehicle showroom in Rajajinagar here on Monday afternoon and 10 vehicles were gutted and 20 were partially damaged, fire officials said. The incident was reported to the fire department at 2.06 pm, after which two fire tenders were rushed to the spot, they said. According to the department, the fire occurred in the basement and ground floor of the showroom where two-wheeler electric vehicles were kept. Following the fire, 10 vehicles wer...Read More
Mumbai, Jan 27 (PTI) The Bombay High Court on Monday suggested Abhishek Lodha and his brother Abhinandan Lodha to try and amicably resolve the issue over the use of 'Lodha' trademark. The Abhishek Lodha-promoted Macrotech Developers Ltd earlier this month filed a suit in the HC against Abhinandan Lodha's real estate firm, House of Abhinandan Lodha, claiming the name 'Lodha' was their trademark and no one else could use it. The suit sought Rs 5,000 crore as damages from Abhinandan Lodha's compa...Read More
Mhow (M.P), Jan 27 (PTI) Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday urged party workers to unite in saving the Constitution, saying the Dalits, backwards, tribals and poor will suffer otherwise. Addressing the "Jai Bapu, Jai Bhim, Jai Samvidhan" rally here, he also branded the BJP-RSS people as "traitors" and said the Congress will never tolerate the exploitation of the poor in the name of religion. Taking a swipe at BJP leaders taking holy dip at the Maha Kumbh, Kharge said taking a dip ...Read More
New Delhi, Jan 27 (PTI) AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal on Monday released the party's manifesto for the Delhi Assembly polls, featuring 15 promises such as Rs 2,100 monthly aid for women, 24-hour clean water, free healthcare for the elderly and a 50 per cent metro fare concession for students. Kejriwal asserted that the AAP government's six existing 'revdis' (freebies), including free education, healthcare, bus rides for women, water and electricity will continue if the party retains power in the Fe...Read More
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand on Monday became the first state to enforce the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), a common set of laws that subsume customary laws across faiths and govern issues such as marriage, divorce, inheritance and maintenance. Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami also launched the UCC portal to be used by people for registration of marriage, divorce, rights of inheritance, live-in relationship and its termination under the UCC, and released the rules that will govern implementation of the l...Read More
Kohima: On January 27, the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) organized a protest rally at Congress Bhavan in Kohima to honor Dr. B.R. Ambedkar and reaffirm the commitment to the Indian Constitution's values. The rally, part of the 'Jai Bapu, Jai Bhim, Jai Samvidhan Abhiyan,' was a strong protest against BJP's remarks on Ambedkar and their alleged attempts to undermine the Constitution. Ready for a challenge? Click here to take our quiz and show off your knowledge! Also Read: Nagaland...Read More
Agartala, Jan 27 (VOICE) Tension prevailed along the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura's Unakoti district on Monday after a clash between the farmers of two villages on the border of the countries, officials said. The BSF and police officials separately said the villagers of India and Bangladesh clashed among themselves over the issue of farming in cropland in the border village of Hirachhara in Kailashahar Sub-division on Sunday evening. According to the officials, two Indian farmers and a Ba...Read More
New Delhi, January 27: The Supreme Court has upheld an order passed by the apex court registry in August 2024 refusing to admit a lawyer's application seeking direction to SEBI to submit its conclusive probe report into the Adani-Hindenburg controversy. Advocate Vishal Tiwari had moved an appeal against the order passed by the Registrar on August 5 last year. Earlier on July 15, 2024, the top court had dismissed a review petition filed against its earlier verdict refusing to form any SIT or gro...Read More
New Delhi, Jan 27 (VOICE) BJP leaders, including Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva, BJP MP Yogendra Chandolia, and National General Secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam, staged a protest outside the residence of former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over vandalisation of Dr Ambedkar's statue in Amritsar, Punjab. The leaders condemned the attack on the statue and declared that they would not tolerate such acts of disrespect. Speaking to VOICE, Virendra Sachdeva, the Delhi BJP President, ex...Read More
New Delhi, Jan 27 (VOICE) The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), scrutinising the contentious Waqf Amendment Bill cleared it on Monday and approved 14 amendments proposed by the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) members. The Waqf Amendment Bill, seeking to bring reforms in the way Waqf boards are administered across the country got cleared by the JPC with a margin of 16:10 members (16 from NDA and 10 from Opposition parties). According to reports, a total of 66 amendments were propos...Read More
New Delhi: The Joint Parliamentary Committee scrutinising the Waqf (Amendment) Bill on Monday adopted all amendments proposed by the ruling BJP-led NDA members and negated every change moved by opposition members. During the meeting, the ruling party passed 22 amendments in the JPC. All opposition amendments were rejected. The opposition had tabled 44 amendments. But all of them were rejected. The next meeting of the JPC will be held on January 29. On that day, the report will be accepted and s...Read More
Kolkata: The parents of a 31-year-old doctor who was brutally raped and murdered at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital have said they are not seeking a death penalty for the convict, Sanjay Roy. The parents' lawyer, Gargi Goswami, conveyed this message to the Calcutta High Court on Monday, stating, "Just because their daughter has lost her life does not mean the convict will also have to lose his life". This development comes as the West Bengal government and the Central Bureau of In...Read More
New Delhi, Jan 27 (PTI) Delhi Chief Minister Atishi on Monday accused the BJP of resorting to unfair tactics out of desperation, as she claimed that a "historic loss" awaits the saffron party in the upcoming Assembly polls in the capital. At a press conference here, Atishi alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is deliberately disrupting Delhi's water supply in a bid to sway the public opinion in its favour. "The BJP is heading towards a historic loss in the national capital. In its bew...Read More
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Atishi has made serious allegations against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Haryana government, accusing it of deliberately releasing contaminated water into the Yamuna River in an attempt to disrupt Delhi's water supply. Atishi's explosive claims came in the wake of growing concerns over the deteriorating quality of water being supplied to the capital's treatment plants. In a press conference, CM Atishi revealed that three major water treatment plants in D...Read More
New Delhi: The Joint Parliamentary Committee reviewing the Waqf (Amendment) Bill on Monday approved all amendments proposed by the ruling BJP-led NDA members, while rejecting every modification suggested by the opposition. The committee chairman Jagdambika Pal told reporters after the meeting that amendments adopted by the committee will make the law better and more effective. However, opposition MPs decried the meeting's proceedings and accused Pal of "subverting" the democratic process. "It...Read More
Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 27 (ANI): The ongoing Mahakumbh in Prayagraj has witnessed an extraordinary surge in devotees, with over 6.019 million pilgrims taking the holy dip at the confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna, and Saraswati rivers as of 12 pm on Monday, as per Uttar Pradesh government. Earlier today, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday took a holy dip at the Sangam Triveni in Prayagraj in the ongoing Mahakumbh Mela. Also Read | Uttarakhand Becomes First State To Implem...Read More
New Delhi [India], January 27 (ANI): Delhi Police detained BJP workers and leaders who were protesting against AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal and the Punjab Government regarding the vandalism of a statue of Babasaheb Ambedkar in Amritsar on Monday. The Delhi BJP, led by party chief Virendra Sachdeva, MP Yogender Chandolia, and national general secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam, protested against AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal and the Punjab Government. This demonstration was in resp...Read More
Tamil Nadu CM M.K. Stalin and his party, the DMK, have termed the draft as "dictatorial," and have threatened legal action and protests if the regulations are not reversed. The University Grants Commission's (UGC) proposed draft regulations for 2025 have sparked significant controversy within the ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Key allies, including the Janata Dal (United) (JD(U)) and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), have raised objections over the draft's proposed changes, par...Read More
Mumbai: Maharashtra deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday said that the issue of guardian ministers will be resolved once chief minister Devendra Fadnavis returns from Davos. Shinde's remarks came three days after the cracks appeared in the BJP-led Mahayuti government over appointment of guardian ministers of Nashik and Raigad. The list issued by the CM was withdrawn the next day allegedly after the intervention by the BJP's central leadership. Meanwhile, Maharashtra BJP chief and Re...Read More