Birla, who flagged off the 2-km walk, termed it a “programme meant not only to encourage women but also to empower them”.
Over the years, the EC has given its views on the matter several times, including to the Law Commission, which includes the logistical requirements for holding simultaneous elections.
The five-member committee that prepared the report and draft Bill on Uniform Civil Code in Uttarakhand submitted its report to Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday.
Senior Advocate Rajeev Dhavan often reminisces about his Cambridge connection while arguing his case.
At a time when the Trinamool Congress has made the withholding of Central funds a big political issue, party’s senior leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay on Wednesday directly checked the status from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Although there's no official word on whether the draft has been withdrawn, sources said it has been taken down since the deadline for public feedback ended Monday.
The minister said one of the ways that people could stay away from hospitals was to stop using tobacco. Every year tobacco consumption kills around 80-lakh people globally, equivalent to the population of some European countries, he said.
One of the ministers in the new Nitish Kumar Cabinet in Bihar has a JNU connection.
Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya, who was in Delhi on Thursday, took some time out of his busy schedule to visit the Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya on Teen Murti Marg.
To get a foothold among young voters, Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) president Jayant Chaudhary is repeatedly making contributions from his Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) funds for development of sports infrastructure in western Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) had declared a half-day leave on January 22 on account of the inauguration of the Ram Mandir.
India’s G20 Sherpa and former NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant, Petroleum Secretary Pankaj Jain, Indian Oil Chairman Shrikant Madhav Vaidya, NBCC India CMD KP Mahadeva Swamy and Delhi BJP leader Neelkant Bakshi were among those present at the minister's bungalow.
Senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad has received the invitation for the consecration of Ram Lalla idol at Ayodhya temple on January 22.
After being elected to the Madhya Pradesh Assembly and resigning from the Union Cabinet, former Minister of State for Jal Shakti Prahlad Singh Patel was quick to move out of his ministerial bungalow in Lutyens’ Delhi.
In a key meeting held on Tuesday to outline BJP’s poll campaign strategy, Home Minister Amit Shah reassigned the responsibilities to the party’s senior leaders.
Not that Maldives is trending only on social media, the island nation has caught the top court’s fancy too.
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar said in a lighter vein that he is looking forward to the day when the IMD would be able to “predict the weather condition of the two Houses of Parliament for the presiding officers”.
With the BJP in full poll mode, party leaders are not missing any occasion to send out a political message.
A NEW biopic on former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee releasing next Friday has led actor Pankaj Tripathi, who is portraying the lead role, to step down as the Election Commission’s national icon for voter awareness.
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat Wednesday formally received the invitation for the January 22 Ram temple consecration ceremony in Ayodhya.
Inaugurating various services at Central government hospitals in Delhi on Monday, the Minister said there was a need to reorient doctors towards wellness and prevention of diseases.
Lepcha, along with nine other MLAs, had quit the Sikkim Democratic Front soon after the 2019 Assembly elections and joined the BJP.
In 2019, when SP and BSP contested together, Afzal — the brother of jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari — was elected from Ghazipur on a BSP ticket.
BJP’s Kaiserganj MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh is holding a week-long celebration to mark his birth anniversary in his home district Gonda.
The BJP national leadership seems to be relieved to see its Karnataka unit making “the right noises” ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.







