Morning Digest | House panel apprised of collusive threat from China and Pakistan; T.N. sanctions graft case probe against EPS, and more

Morning Digest | House panel apprised of collusive threat from China and Pakistan; T.N. sanctions graft case probe against EPS, and more

Former Tamil Nadu CM and AIADMK general secretary Edappai Palaniswami. File photo | Photo Credit: LAKSHMI NARAYANAN E House panel apprised of collusive threat from China and Pakistan The Indian Navy currently has a strength of around 130 ships and submarines and while the target is to have a 200-ship Navy, given the current trajectory […]

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Morning Digest | Online platforms must take down PIB-flagged ‘fake news’, Union Cabinet gives nod to Indian Space Policy 2023, and more

Morning Digest | Online platforms must take down PIB-flagged ‘fake news’, Union Cabinet gives nod to Indian Space Policy 2023, and more

Online platforms must take down PIB-flagged ‘fake news’ Social media platforms and other intermediaries on the Internet are now required to make sure that “fake news” articles about the Union government, deemed and declared as such by its Press Information Bureau (PIB), are taken down from their platforms when they are alerted to such posts. […]

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Sharad Pawar steps in amid row over Rahul Gandhi’s Savarkar remark; asks Congress to tone down attack

Sharad Pawar steps in amid row over Rahul Gandhi’s Savarkar remark; asks Congress to tone down attack

Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharaed Pawar. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Amid strains in the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance over Rahul Gandhi’s strident criticism of V. D. Savarkar, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has stepped in to play the peacemaker by conveying the Shiv Sena’s concerns on the issue to the […]

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Kharge, other Congress leaders meet to discuss fallout of court verdict against Rahul Gandhi

Kharge, other Congress leaders meet to discuss fallout of court verdict against Rahul Gandhi

Congress MP Mallikarjun Kharge. File | Photo Credit: PTI Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday convened a meeting of top party leaders at his residence to discuss the situation arising out of the conviction and two-year sentence of Rahul Gandhi by a Surat court in a defamation case. Senior Congress leaders, including party MPs, gathered […]

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Lingayat delegation meets Kharge

Lingayat delegation meets Kharge

Senior Veerashaiva-Lingayat leaders from the Congress met AICC president M. Mallikarjun Kharge in New Delhi on Wednesday. A day after a delegation of ‘left’ Dalit leaders met AICC president M. Mallikarjun Kharge, senior Veerashaiva-Lingayat leaders Shamanur Shivashankarappa and Allam Veerabhadrappa met him in Delhi on Wednesday seeking more ticket to aspirants from the community to […]

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It hurts when even poetry recited in Parliament is expunged from records: Mallikarjun Kharge

It hurts when even poetry recited in Parliament is expunged from records: Mallikarjun Kharge

Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena, former President Ram Nath Kovind, former BJP National President Murli Manohar Joshi, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and others at the Lokmat Parliamentary Awards, in New Delhi on March 14, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI The freedom to write and speak the truth is “under threat” today, said Congress president […]

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Morning Digest | India abstains in U.N. vote on Ukraine; Gandhis likely to stay away from Congress steering committee meeting, and more

Morning Digest | India abstains in U.N. vote on Ukraine; Gandhis likely to stay away from Congress steering committee meeting, and more

The U.N. General Assembly votes in favour of a resolution upholding Ukraine’s territorial integrity and calling for a cessation of hostilities after Russia’s invasion, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023, at United Nations headquarters. | Photo Credit: AP India abstains in U.N. vote underscoring need for just, lasting peace in Ukraine India abstained in the U.N. General Assembly on February 23 […]

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