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New Delhi: Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh chaired the proceedings of the morning session Tuesday, a day after Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned as Vice President citing medical reasons. Vice President of India is ex-officio Chairman of the Rajya Sabha. Usually Dhankhar used to chair...

New Delhi: In a significant development, the Supreme Court Tuesday sought responses of the Centre and all states on the Presidential reference raising constitutional issues on whether timelines could be imposed for dealing with bills passed by Assembly. Observing that the issues raised in the...

New Delhi: Opposition MPs, including Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, Tuesday staged a protest in Parliament House complex against the Election Commission's voter roll revision in Bihar. The opposition MPs gathered on the steps of Makar Dwar of Parliament and...

Thiruvananthapuram: British fighter jet F-35 B, which made an emergency landing at the international airport here over a month ago and has been parked since then, flew back Tuesday after completing maintenance, airport sources said. The jet, which took off at 10.50 am, flew to...

Dhaka: The death toll from the crash of the Bangladesh Air Force training fighter jet into a school building in Dhaka rose to 27 as more people succumbed to their injuries, authorities said Tuesday. The F-7 BGI aircraft, a training fighter jet manufactured in China,...

New Delhi: With Jagdeep Dhankhar quitting as the Vice President, the election to appoint his successor will have to be held "as soon as possible". According to Clause 2 of Article 68 of the Constitution, an election to fill a vacancy in the office of...

Patna: In a major breakthrough in the Chandan Mishra murder case, a joint team of Bihar STF and Bhojpur police arrested three accused following an encounter in Bhojpur district Tuesday. The encounter took place around 5.45 a.m. near a river on the Bihiya-Kateya road under...

New Delhi: Congress Tuesday claimed the reasons behind Jagdeep Dhankhar's resignation as vice president are "far deeper" than health issues cited by him, and that his resignation speaks highly of him but poorly of those who got him elected to the post. Congress general secretary...

London: Twenty-eight countries including Britain, Japan and a host of European nations issued a joint statement Monday saying the war in Gaza “must end now” — the latest sign of allies' sharpening language as Israel's isolation deepens. The foreign ministers of countries also including Australia...

Washington: Gita Gopinath, the First Deputy Managing Director (FDMD) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will be stepping down from her role in August 2025 to return to academia at Harvard University, the IMF announced. Gopinath, a trailblazer in international economics, will be taking on...