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]BJP, Congress trade barbs over draft bills
Updated on Apr 02, 2023 12:05 AM IST
Yadav tweeted a list of bills—109 from the Lok Sabha and 45 from the Rajya Sabha—that have been sent to joint committees so far to refute the Congress leader’s allegation that referring the Forest Conservation Amendment Bill to a joint committee on March 29 was “devaluation and denigration” of processes.

HT Correspondent, New Delhi
Vice Admiral Sanjay Jasjit Singh to be new navy vice chief
Vice Admiral Sanjay Jasjit Singh will on Sunday take over as the new vice chief of the Indian Navy after Vice Admiral SN Ghormade retired on Friday, officials familiar with the matter said on Saturday.

Updated on Apr 02, 2023 12:03 AM IST
HT Correspondent, New Delhi
Great Indian Bustard chick hatches from birds reared in captivity
A chick of a Great Indian Bustard reared in captivity was for the first time hatched on Saturday in Jaisalmer’s breeding centre, which aims to release the critically endangered birds in the wild to stem their declining population.

Updated on Apr 02, 2023 12:01 AM IST
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Mukesh MathraniTelangana police arrest Haryana man for data theft
Telangana police arrested a man from Faridabad for running a personal data mining racked, which involved confidential information of at least 669 million individuals and organisations whose details were sold to fraudsters who then used it for scams.

Updated on Apr 01, 2023 11:59 PM IST
Srinivasa Rao Apparasu, Hyderabad
Shah promises road, rail, air connectivity toall northeast capitals by 2025
Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday laid the foundation stone of various projects worth ₹2,415 crore in poll-bound Mizoram and assured that projects to connect all eight capitals of northeastern states would be completed by 2025.

Updated on Apr 01, 2023 11:58 PM IST
Utpal Parashar, Guwahati
BJP forms 50-member team to begin election work in Karnataka
Just 24 hours after the election schedule was announced for the Karnataka assembly polls, the top leadership of the BJP summoned 50 of its lawmakers from across the country for an urgent meeting.

Updated on Apr 01, 2023 11:55 PM IST
Sunetra Choudhury, New Delhi
Probe by Supreme Court panel better than JPC on Adani issue: Pawar
The Supreme Court-constituted panel, appointed by the Chief Justice of India, to probe the Gautam Adani-led Adani Group will prove to be more effective than a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) as sought by the Congress, NCP chief Sharad Pawar said on Saturday.

Updated on Apr 01, 2023 11:52 PM IST
Pradip Kumar Maitra, Nagpur
Every Indian is my protective shield: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said some people are trying to malign his image but every Indian from all sections of society is his protective shield.

Updated on Apr 01, 2023 11:50 PM IST
HT Correspondent, Bhopal
Defence exports log tenfold jump since 2016, nearly ₹16k-cr
Making its presence felt in the highly competitive global defence market, India exported military hardware worth ₹15,920 crore in financial year 2022-23, the highest ever and a notable tenfold increase since 2016-17.

Updated on Apr 01, 2023 11:48 PM IST
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Rahul SinghInternet suspended, curfew imposed in Bihar’s Nalanda, Sasaram districts after Ram Navami violence
Internet services were suspended for 48 hours in Bihar's Nalanda and Sasaram districts after communal clashes during Ram Navami processions on Friday injured several people, including six with bullet injuries. The curfews imposed by administrations in both districts under Section 144 of CrPC continued on Saturday. Police have arrested 28 people and will lodge four separate first information reports (FIRs) against the troublemakers.

Updated on Apr 01, 2023 11:38 PM IST
Above-normal temperatures in most parts of country till June: IMD
After a cooler March that saw unseasonal rains and hailstorms, April could be much hotter than usual, the IMD predicted on Saturday

Updated on Apr 01, 2023 11:32 PM IST
HT This Day: April 2, 2004 -- India as dangerous as a bubbling volcano
INDIA CAME INTO the Test at Multan with the momentum of a one-day series victory under their belt. From the time Virender Sehwag launched a blistering attack on the new ball they rapidly built on that psychological advantage.

Updated on Apr 01, 2023 11:29 PM IST
March GST mop-up 2nd highest ever at ₹1.6L-cr
The March figure represents a 12.68% year-on-year growth, and takes the total collection for the 2022-23 financial year to a record ₹18.07 lakh crore, according to official data

Updated on Apr 01, 2023 11:14 PM IST
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Rajeev JayaswalDefence will get all the resources it needs: PM
The conference focused on a raft of issues including evolving a joint military vision for the future, theaterisation, self-reliance, modernisation and cyber security

Updated on Apr 01, 2023 11:14 PM IST
HT Correspondent, New Delhi
Savarkar not national issue, Rahul Gandhi's UK speech not important: Pawar
NCP supremo Sharad Pawar said Savarkar's can not be ignored but Savarkar can't be a national issue today.

Published on Apr 01, 2023 10:59 PM IST
'Bangal mein BJP ayegi toh...': Babul Supriyo's tweet after Howrah violence
Babul Supriyo tweeted that the bosses of a big construction company where his friend works are worried after “seeing some of the real pictures”.

Published on Apr 01, 2023 09:59 PM IST
India’s G20 presidency resulted in ‘99% agreement on substantive issues’: Kant
India’s G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant appeared upbeat at the end of the discussions on Saturday, telling a media briefing that the Indian presidency was making better progress than Indonesia’s presidency in 2022 when there were no detailed negotiations on key issues till shortly before the leaders’ summit in Bali

Updated on Apr 01, 2023 09:15 PM IST
Daily brief: Navjot Sidhu's reply when asked about fugitive Amritpal Singh
Here are today’s top news, analysis, and opinion. Know all about the latest news and other news updates from Hindustan Times.

Published on Apr 01, 2023 09:01 PM IST
Vice Admiral Sanjay Jasjit Singh to be new navy vice chief
He was the lead drafter for the Indian Navy’s Maritime Doctrine, 2009, Strategic Guidance to Transformation, 2015, and the Indian Maritime Security Strategy, 2015

Updated on Apr 01, 2023 08:51 PM IST
Covid in India: Which states tweaked guidelines amid spike in cases this week
The daily positivity rate stands at 2.09%, while the weekly positivity rate is at 2.03%, as per the latest health bulletin.

Published on Apr 01, 2023 08:41 PM IST
Lingamgunta Nirmitha Rao | Edited by Poulomi Ghosh
PM Modi reviews operational readiness of armed forces in Bhopal
Speaking at the Combined Commanders’ Conference in Bhopal, the PM carried out a security review and asked the military to stay prepared for new and emerging threats that focused on a raft of issues, including evolving a joint military vision for the futur

Updated on Apr 01, 2023 08:39 PM IST
Navjot Singh Sidhu was asked about Amritpal. He said...
In his first statements after coming out of jail, Navjot Sidhu said he will stand with Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi like a wall in these testing times.

Published on Apr 01, 2023 08:22 PM IST
Russia-Ukraine conflict cannot be separated from G20, says US head of delegation
Without naming China and Russia, Segal-Knowles said the G20 states are having to renegotiate the text to describe the Ukraine crisis in outcome documents because “two countries have just walked away from language that their leaders had agreed” at the G20 Summit in Indonesia last year

Updated on Apr 01, 2023 08:59 PM IST
‘Assault on family system’: Jamiat moves plea in SC opposing same sex marriage
Any change in the existing laws is for the Parliament to decide, read the application.

Updated on Apr 01, 2023 07:51 PM IST
Navjot Sidhu walks out of jail after 10 months: ‘Rahul Gandhi name of…’
Rahul Gandhi is the name of a revolution, Navjot Singh Sidhu said walking out of Patiala jail after 10 months.

Published on Apr 01, 2023 05:59 PM IST
Evening brief: Iran judiciary chief's 'without mercy' warning on hijab for women
Here are today’s top news, analysis, and opinion. Know all about the latest news and other news updates from Hindustan Times.

Published on Apr 01, 2023 04:58 PM IST
GST revenue in FY23 crossed ₹18 lakh crore: Union finance ministry
The revenues for the month of March 2023 are 13% higher than the GST revenues in the same month last year, informed the ministry, adding, the revenues from goods import were 8% higher and the revenues from the domestic transaction (including import of services) are 14% higher than the revenues from these sources during the same month last year

Updated on Apr 01, 2023 04:58 PM IST
'Supari' for maligning my image, inside and outside...: PM Modi in Bhopal
“When my friends in Congress will read it in newspapers, they will surely say this is Modiji's April Fool,” PM Modi said in Bhopal.

Published on Apr 01, 2023 04:19 PM IST
‘Air, road, rail connectivity to all NE capitals by 2025’: Amit Shah in Mizoram
Union home minister Amit Shah said that incidents of violence in the northeastern region have come down significantly since 2014 and there is a new era of peace and development

Updated on Apr 01, 2023 03:44 PM IST
India’s defence exports reach ₹15,920 cr in 2022-23, tenfold jump in 6 years
PM Modi lauded India’s defence export under Make in India and said it shows the reforms in this sector over the last few years are delivering good results.

Updated on Apr 01, 2023 05:10 PM IST