PATNA: Bihar’s INDIA bloc partners on Thursday picked RJD‘s Tejashwi Yadav as the chief of election coordination committee, tasked with settling seat-sharing issues, chalking out poll strategy, and preparing a common manifesto and a common minimum programme for assembly polls this year. Tejashwi’s appointment comes days after he met LoP Rahul Gandhi, and Congress chief…
A US congressional committee has branded the Chinese artificial intelligence tool DeepSeek as a “profound threat” to America’s national security amid the intensifying trade war between the two countries. DeepSeek was described as being closely associated with the Communist Party and “designed to unlawfully undermine US technological leadership and critical American policies to protect national…
Justice Kurian Joseph (File Image) NEW DELHI: Appointed by Tamil Nadu as head of a high-level committee to explore ways & means for greater autonomy for states in a federal governance structure, Justice Kurian Joseph on Wednesday said the endeavour would be to find solutions within constitutional parameters and without compromising the nation’s unity and…
CHENNAI: Amid his govt’s confrontation with the Centre, Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Tuesday announced in the assembly the constitution of a high-level committee led by retired Supreme Court judge Justice Kurian Joseph to address concerns over states’ autonomy and federalism.The panel is tasked with recommending measures to protect constitutionally guaranteed rights…
NEW DELHI: The proposal to build two tunnels — Singhpora-Vailoo and Sudhmahadev-Dranga — on the Anantnag-Chenani corridor in J&K has hit hurdles, with the expenditure secretary-headed Public Investment Board (PIB) recently turning down recommendation for their construction, citing multiple reasons, including cost. Earlier, the bid for the Singhpora-Vailoo tunnel was scrapped.Besides the huge cost of…
MUMBAI: Pratyush Sinha, a former chief vigilance officer and retired IAS officer, has been appointed to lead Sebi’s high-level committee (HLC) focusing on conflict of interest, disclosures and associated matters concerning the regulatory body’s members and officials. The other members of the committee include Injeti Srinivas, Uday Kotak, G Mahalingam, Sarit Jafa, and R Narayanaswamy,…
New Delhi: Highlighting that Manipur has been reeling under an “extraordinary crisis” for 21 months, with “hundreds” of lives lost and 50,000-60,000 people internally displaced, a parliamentary panel has recommended that the govt establish a dedicated special committee with a separate programme to address the concern of displaced women and children in the state.The department-related…
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has reportedly informed a parliamentary panel that Bangladesh government has refused to recognise the systematic victimisation of minorities and has attempted to minimise the scale of violence against Hindus following Sheikh Hasina’s government’s departure, according to sources quoted by news agency PTI.During a presentation to the Standing…
NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday sharply rejected the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) report, calling the panel an “entity of concern”.Calling the report biased and politically motivated, the ministry of external affairs said the USCIRF’s report “continues its pattern of issuing biased and politically motivated assessments”.“We have seen the recently released 2025 Annual…
Minorities in India face deteriorating treatment, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom said in a report on Tuesday. According to news agency Reuters, the panel’s report recommended sanctions against India’s external spy agency over alleged involvement in assassination plots against Sikh separatists. The panel’s annual report also said communist-ruled Vietnam stepped up efforts to…