NEW DELHI: DMK MP Kanimozhi has written a letter addressed to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to change the seating arrangements in the Parliament so that they don’t have to sit near the Congress MPs, considering the recent rift after Tamil Nadu poll results.“I write to respectfully request suitable changes in the seating arrangement of…

NEW DELHI: Foreign minister S Jaishankar discussed the situation in the Strait of Hormuz with his Iranian counterpart Seyed Abbas Araghchi in a phone conversation on Tuesday evening. While Jaishankar stressed the need for safe merchant shipping, an Iranian readout said that they discussed the “consequences of the US and Israeli regime’s military aggression on…

NEW DELHI/PUNE: IAF ordered Saturday a court of inquiry into a hard landing by a Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter jet in Pune, as flight operations at the civil-military airport resumed after an overnight shutdown of nearly 10 hours. IAF spokesperson Wing Commander Jaideep Singh confirmed the probe. He also said: “Work was done at a war…

Amit Shah Nafed and NCCF to procure ‘every single grain’ of pulses and oilseeds directly from farmers NEW DELHI: Union home and cooperation minister Amit Shah on Tuesday directed National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation (Nafed) and National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation (NCCF) to procure “every single grain” of pulses and oilseeds directly from farmers “with complete…

What’s next for Raghav Chadha? Raghav Chadha’s outburst against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leadership does not come as a surprise. For quite some time now, Chadha, who was once considered a close confidant of AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, was not on the same page with the party’s top leadership. Raghav Chadha’s growing distance from AAP…