New Delhi: The Delhi government announced the rechristening of Pragati Maidan Metro Station as the Supreme Court metro station. Addressing a press conference, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said the entire renaming process including changing of audio in metro train announcements will be done in a month. Sisodia also announced that Mukarba Chowk on Delhi's Outer Ring
New Delhi: On New Year's eve, according to an order issued on Tuesday, the railways declared a hike through their network, excluding suburban trains, effective from 1 January 2020. While suburban fares remain unchanged, ordinary non-AC, non-suburban fares hiked by 1 paise per km of journey.The railways also announced a two paise/km hike in fares
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)president Sharad Pawar has extended support to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) that was recently enacted by the Centre. Banerjee had requested opposition parties and non-BJP chief ministers to unite against CAA and NRC recently.
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala Assembly today passed a resolution calling for the scrapping of the infamous Citizenship (Amendment) Act, in the midst of ongoing protests across the country against the legislation. The ruling CPI(M)-LDF and the opposition Congress-led UDF backed the resolution while the only dissenting voice in the one-day special session was that of BJP's lone
The final date for connecting PAN (Permanent Account Number) with Aadhaar was extended from 31 December 2019 to 31 March 2020, told on Monday by the Income Tax (IT) department. This is now the second time the deadline has been extended for the same thing. The Ministry of Finance had earlier extended the deadline from
New Delhi: Lieutenant General Manoj Mukund Naravane will take over as the 28th Chief of Indian Army. He will succeed General Bipin Rawat, whose three-year term ends on Tuesday as chief of the army. Until assuming the duties of the Army Staff Vice Chief in September 2019, Lt General Naravane led the Army's Eastern Command, which
New Delhi: A minor fire that broke out near the 7 Lok Kalyan Marg residence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi this evening was brought under the control by security officials. The PMO office tweeted: "There was a minor fire at 9, Lok Kalyan Marg caused by a short circuit. This was not in PM’s
When Priyanka Gandhi launched a sharp attack on Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath of Uttar Pradesh over his comment of "revenge against demonstrators," the BJP, in effect, accused the General Secretary of the Congress of helping rioters. The state’s deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma addressed a press conference soon after Priyanka Gandhi referred to Adityanath’s saffron clothes
New Delhi: Five politicians have been released from detention today in Srinagar, almost five months after they were taken into custody by the central government as a precautionary measure ahead of the scrapping of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. But the three most prominent leaders of Kashmir — National Conference President Farooq Abdullah, his
In an attempt to garner public support for the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a Twitter campaign using the hashtag ' # IndiaSupportsCAA ' and reiterated that the legislation was not meant to deprive anyone of their citizenship. He tweeted " #IndiaSupportsCAA because CAA is about giving citizenship to