05 June 2026
New Delhi: Former cricketer and Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu has left for Pakistan to attend the swearing-in ceremony of PM-designate Imran Khan on Friday. He was invited for Imran Khan's swearing in ceremony tomorrow.
Navjot Sidhu at Attari-Wagah border, said, " I am going to Pakistan as a goodwill ambassador. I am going there with the hope that relations between our two nations will improve."
New Delhi: Kerala floods have claimed over 100 lives so far as over 40 people have been swept away on Thursday by rising waters as the worst flood in the state in nearly a century. Floods threatened to sink neighbouring other southern Indian states, where dams neared maximum capacity and rivers in spate.
The airport in Kochi, the state’s largest, was declared shut till August 26 and Southern Railway and Kochi Metro suspended their operations. More than 150,000 people jostled for space in relief camps as their houses collapsed under heavy rainfall or were cut off by surging waters that have damaged more than 10,000 kilometres of roads.
New Delhi: Now, Saudi Arabia proposes to help initiating dialogues between India and Pakistan with Saudi Arabia hoping India and Pakistan will resume peace talks and asked that it will be happy to help the process but only if it is asked to do so.
Saudi ambassador Saud bin Mohammed al-Sati said that he had noted the “reference that the Prime Minister-elect of Pakistan, Imran Khan, made regarding India — that if India takes one step, we will take two”. It was encouraging, he said, that this was followed by Prime Minister NarendraModi’s phone call to Khan to congratulate him on his electoral success.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday questioned the logic behind granting reservation in promotion in government jobs to the creamy layer within the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (SC and ST) communities. It felt it was necessary to have a quantifiable data and benchmark to determine who among the “socially disadvantaged sections” should be given the benefit of the affirmative action.
Attorney General KK Venugopal, however, told a Chief Justice DipakMisra-led constitution bench that the court should leave this question to the President’s wisdom. He said the President alone has the Constitutional prerogative to determine castes, race, and tribes for classification under SC and ST category.
New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday took a jibe at Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah for switching off his microphone during his speech in New Delhi. Gandhi’s microphone suddenly went off with a loud noise when he was speaking at ‘Save Composite Culture’ meeting in central Delhi’s Talkatora stadium, where leaders of several political parties participated.
The Congress leader, then took a jibe when the mic became functional and said, “AmitShahji ne mic band kardiyatha(Amit Shah had switched off the mic).” Gandhi’s comment made people clap and raise slogans.
