05 June 2026
New Delhi: Undergoing treatment for a pancreatic ailment at New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar informed his cabinet colleagues of his desire to let go of most of his portfolios.
Confirming the CM’s decision, leader of the Goa Forward Party and cabinet minister Vijai Sardesai said Parrikar wants the redistributed done by the Dussehra festival on 19 October.
New Delhi: In the wake of Assembly election where Congress organisation has gone into shambles, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah targeted Congress president Rahul Gandhi, asking if he was planning to form a government in Chhattisgarh under the leadership of a man who had “put women to shame” by allegedly making a fake obscene CD.
Addressing a gathering of nearly 20,000 party workers, Shah was referring to Chhattisgarh Congress chief Bhupesh Baghel, an accused in a case involving the circulation of a “fake CD” purportedly featuring a state BJP minister.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India dismissed petitions made by senior Congress leaders Kamal Nath and Sachin Pilot. One petetion was demanding the voters’ list in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan be provided in text format and the other seeking directions to the Election Commission to randomly verify at least 10 % Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips with votes cast on electronic voting machines (EVMs).
Polls in Madhya Pradesh will be held on November 28 and in Rajasthan on December 7.
New Delhi: The infrastructure lending giant had accumulated a whopping $12.6 billion debt burden after a string of defaults, prompting the Centre to move quickly, amid a rapid fall in the sector’s stock prices, to take control of Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd. (IL&FS). Parliament’s standing committee on finance will review the IL&FS case that triggered widespread panic in the Indian stock markets after it defaulted on payments.
The country’s biggest public sector bank, SBI, also decided to buy Rs 45,000 crore of stressed assets of the faltering company, pumping in the much-needed cash in IL&FS. “We want to assess the crisis and do our own review because IL&FS is one of the key lenders in the infrastructure sector,” panel chairman Veerappa Moily said, clarifying the need for such a review by a House panel.
New Delhi: Russian ambassador Nikolay Kudashev said that India and Russia defence cooperation would go on and Russia won’t be pressured by the threat of US sanctions while finalizing big-ticket military hardware deals with India. They included contracts for four frigates and production of Kalashnikov assault rifles,
A day after President Donald Trump remarked New Delhi will find out “sooner than you think” about Washington’s response to the $5.4 billion deal for Russian S-400 air defence systems that comes under the purview of Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), Kudashev said India is “too big and too large to dpend on or be afraid of somebody”.
