Sat, 29 Dec 2018 20:38:25
Keen on enacting the legislation, the government has got the bill on criminalising triple talaq listed in the Rajya Sabha for consideration on Monday, giving it the top priority notwithstanding the fact that it may find it difficult to get the bill through.
The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2018 has been listed as the number one item under the head legislative business i
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Sat, 29 Dec 2018 20:30:31
The Congress party will not let the passage of the triple talaq bill in its present form in the Rajya Sabha, AICC general secretary K C Venugopal said here on Saturday.
The party would join hands with those parties with which it can ally with to defeat the bill in the present form, he told reporters here.
He said 10 opposition parties had come out openly against the Muslim Women (Protection
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Sat, 29 Dec 2018 20:18:38
The Railway Ministry is likely to put the Hubballi-Ankola line project in cold storage due to the delay in getting green clearance as it required large tracts of forest land in the ecologically sensitive Western Ghats region.
When Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy met Railway Minister Piyush Goyal here on Thursday to apprise him about pending railway projects in Karnataka, the minister clearly sai
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Sat, 29 Dec 2018 20:09:51
ISLAMABAD: Not more than 500 Sikh pilgrims will be allowed per day through the Kartarpur Corridor and a database of the pilgrims with their travel history will be maintained, Pakistan has said in a draft agreement that it plans to send to the Indian Government for signing.
In the agreement, Pakistan government has also said that three-day prior information of the visiting pilgrims and security
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Sat, 29 Dec 2018 20:06:58
More than Rs 2,021 crore was spent on chartered flights, maintenance of aircraft and hotline facilities during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visits to foreign countries since June 2014, according to the government.
Replying to queries on the issue in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh also listed the countries visited by the Prime Minister between 2014 and 2018 that
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Sat, 29 Dec 2018 20:02:35
Former Prime Minister and JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda Saturday said the coalition government in Karnataka was functioning "smoothly", as he indicated that the party was looking for 12 out of 28 seats in the state to contest during next year's Lok Sabha polls.
The statement comes days after local JDS leaders and party workers asked the leadership to contest all 28 Lok Sabha seats in the state, un
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Sat, 29 Dec 2018 20:00:23
Calling Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy an "Accidental CM", the opposition BJP has taken a jibe at him over his Singapore visit to celebrate the new year, at a time when most parts of the state are reeling under drought.
"After new govt was formed 377 farmers have ended their lives 156 talukas declared drought-hit, loan waiver has still not been done, Karnataka has slipped to a debt r
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Sat, 29 Dec 2018 19:57:14
India moved within two wickets of an emphatic victory in the third test after reducing Australia to 258 for eight at the close of day four on Saturday as the home side's batsmen suffered a familiar spate of failures.
Having set a mammoth victory target of 399 shortly before lunch, Virat Kohli's team attacked with precision and intensity to leave Australia on life support at the end of a muggy a
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Sat, 29 Dec 2018 19:53:20
A Delhi court hearing the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper case on Saturday imposed restrictions on alleged middleman Christian Michel meeting his lawyers in ED custody after the agency said that he was misusing legal access by passing chits to the advocates asking them how to tackle questions on "Mrs Gandhi'.
In its application seeking an extension of Michel's remand, the Enforcement Directorate al
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