The Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha on December 16 and was passed, two days later, on December 18. In Rajya Sabha, it was passed on December 19.
The total donations received by Congress is just a fraction of the Rs 6,088 crore the Bharatiya Janata Party received in 2024-25.
The top three trusts – Prudent Electoral Trust, Progressive Electoral Trust and New Democratic Electoral Trust – accounted for 98 per cent of all contributions.
Ruling party's corpus is 4.5 times the total contributions to a dozen Opp parties
Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said that Aravalli ranges have been defined as the extent of 500m between two or more hills, and due to this definition, more than 90% of the it will be under protection.
The move came in the wake of unrest across the country following the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, a leader of the protests that led to the ouster of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League government in 2024.
A state-level inquiry team constituted by the state government to probe how the five children with thalassemia contracted HIV during blood transfusions has found major lapses — from not maintaining records of donors to failure in conducting HIV tests properly.
The MGNREGS imprint can also be seen in the many water harvesting ponds, percolation tanks, and trenches around the village, which have helped bring groundwater levels up. Under various work heads, cement concrete roads have been laid.
BJP receives 82% of total Rs 3,811 crore in 2024-25, Congress less than 8%, others about 10%; 13 electoral trusts submit contribution reports to EC
Addressing a gathering in Taherpur over the phone, as his helicopter was unable to land due to low visibility, Modi also accused the TMC of opposing the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls to protect “infiltrators”.
Opposition party believes it has a better chance of bringing other anti-BJP parties on board over this issue and that the BJP will be more vulnerable to a well-articulated critique on a livelihood issue.
Gill had been battling for form of late and had gone 18 innings without a fifty in the format. The Indian Express understands that the two factors leading to Gill being left out were a) his strike rate in the Powerplay; and b) team combination and balance.
The SHO said a lesson should be taught to such parents for not imparting ‘achhe sanskar'. The boys belong to a minority community.
The gram panchayat under which Laghat falls has been recognised as one of the most affected by chitta menace in Himachal
The spark for the latest violence is the December 12 shooting of 32-year-old Sharif Osman Hadi who had participated in the movement against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leading to her ouster from office on August 5, 2024.
The CAG also found instances of skill certification by employers who do not merit classification as ‘Best-in-Class’, the report said.
Drawing a parallel with global pop culture, he said, “If kids in India are willing to learn Korean because of content, I believe the day will come when people outside India will want to learn Hindi because of our conversations and stories.”
On Monday, when The Indian Express visited these schools, the daily average AQI in Delhi was 427, making it one of the most polluted days of this pollution season.
Speaking at the Express Adda Wednesday, Omar Abdullah also spoke about his unease in using “the words Union Territory and Jammu-Kashmir in the same sentence”.
Mohammad Athar Hussain sold clothes door to door for nearly 20 years in the area in Nawada where one evening of Dec 5 he was allegedly mistaken for a thief
BJP Kishtwar MLA Shagun Parihar, who has raised questions about the workers hired for the project, said this “vindicated” her allegations.
Labour-intensive sectors to gain from zero-duty access on 98% of Oman’s tariff lines
In prescriptions that OPD patients at Lok Nayak showed The Indian Express over two days this week, pharmacy staff had crossed out several medicines or marked them as “not available”.
Hearing the petitions by the women who feared a threat to their lives, the HC ordered police to provide immediate protection if someone disturbs their peaceful living.
Ashok Rana has sought passive euthanasia for his son, Harish, who suffered head injuries in 2013, and has since been bedridden and dependent on an artificial support system



