Sharma, a former Union Commerce Minister, Friday said in a statement, “Piyush Goyal’s statement terming the Trade agreement with ASEAN as silly and labelling these countries as B team of China is irresponsible and insulting.”

Gandhi was reacting to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement that soon a time would come when those speaking English in the country would “feel ashamed”.

The statement comes in the backdrop of the growing concern over arbitrary hike in fees by private schools in metropolitan cities. The Delhi Public School in the Capital’s Dwarka has been chided by the High Court as having become a “money making machine” which treats students like “chattel”.

Shah was arrested in an alleged terror funding case in June 2019. However, he has spent considerable time in jail over the last 30 years, and his latest bail plea was rejected by the Delhi High Court on June 12.

The President said the progress of a country or society can be judged by the way the people treat persons with disabilities in that society

The placard, held up by YSRCP worker T Raviteja on Wednesday, said: “When YSRCP comes to power in 2029”, and below that, “rapa rapa narukuta”. The Telugu words were part of a line delivered by Allu Arjun in Pushpa 2. It translates to “cut them down, one by one”.

The commission in its report detailed how government records had been tampered with in a “systematic and organised” manner, and forged sale deeds with Portuguese-era calligraphy were inserted into the records, allegedly “in connivance with the staff of the Directorate of Archives and Archaeology”.

One of the officers quoted above said around 650 trained personnel were involved in the firefighting operation. No firefighter suffered any injury or damage, he added.

The petition, amended to incorporate a prayer to quash the gazette notification, filed by Congress leader Abhinav Thapar, claimed that the new amendment to the Doon Valley notification, 1989, which was notified on May 13, fails the original motive of the notification.

The High Court was hearing a criminal appeal filed by the convict against a trial court judgment which found him guilty under Section 307 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act).

The technology transfer will happen over the next two years, during which HAL will have to manufacture two SSLVs end-to-end, following the same procedure as Isro for the three development flights of the vehicle.

CJI B R Gavai said the tensions that arose in the early years between the judiciary and Parliament unfolded against the backdrop of efforts to realise socio-economic rights.

Modi was addressing a public meeting in Siwan. This is his fourth visit to the poll-bound state this year and his third in the last three months.

With students from diverse linguistic backgrounds, KVs are considering splitting classes by language to implement the directive.

Initially set for launch on May 29, the Axiom-4 mission has been postponed multiple times owing to problems in the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, oxygen leak in the rocket, inclement weather, and module repairs.

In mourning, Junaid’s family said he never went very far from home and that on the night of the incident, he had left saying he would be back in four-five hours.

The police remand report names 17 accused – 14 who allegedly raped her for nearly two years, and three persons, including the minor classmate, for not informing authorities. All have been arrested.

According to police, the deceased was likely to have been killed in crossfire that took place during this search operation.

After the implementation of the new initiatives in the bypolls in Kadi and Visvadar in Gujarat, Nilambur in Kerala, Ludhiana West in Punjab and Kaliganj in West Bengal, the same would be rolled out in Bihar polls.

The bypolls to the Assembly seats of Kadi in Gujarat’s Mehsana district and Visavadar in Junagadh were peaceful and recorded around 57.90% and 56.89% turnout, respectively, on Thursday, said a release from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer.

A total of 802 such centres are operational across the country.

Holding candles, people in Kangpokpi town formed a human chain all the way till her residence. Her body was flown from Ahemedabad this afternoon after her DNA sample was matched with one of her three brothers.

The Delhi Police’s security division recently withdrew the security of former chief election commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora. After he retired from the post of the CEC, three police security personnel were assigned to him, who were withdrawn a few days ago.

At a recent Adda held in Mumbai, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis spoke on making governance his priority, tackling corruption, political opportunism and the transformation of Mumbai. The conversation was moderated by Vandita Mishra, National Opinion Editor, The Indian Express and Anant Goenka, Executive Director, The Indian Express Group