Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who also holds the Finance portfolio, would set a record of sorts on Friday by presenting his 13th state budget and 6th in a row, an official said on Wednesday. Siddaramaiah will present the budget for 2018-19 on Friday though it will not be a full-fledged[Read More…]
Jaipur: In an embarrassment for the BJP government in Rajasthan, a picture of state Health Minister Kalicharan Saraf urinating on the walls of the Pink City has gone viral. He, however, shrugged it off, saying it was “not a big issue”. The picture comes as the Jaipur Municipal Corporation is working[Read More…]
Kolkata: The chief of Hindu Samhati, a hardliner Hindu outfit in West Bengal, and three of its activists were on Wednesday arrested for allegedly attacking journalists at an event on occasion of the organisation’s 10th foundation day here, a senior police officer said. “Hindu Samhati chief Tapan Ghosh and three other[Read More…]
Mumbai: The Congress’ Mumbai unit will stage agitations at 21 suburban railway stations on Thursday to highlight the increasing prices of petrol and diesel and inflation which has hit the common masses hard, a top party official said. The agitations will be led by Mumbai Regional Congress Committee (MRCC) President Sanjay[Read More…]
Ranchi: The Jharkhand government on Wednesday set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the murder of Congress leader Shankar Yadav in a bomb blast, an official statement said. “Jharkhand Chief Minister (Raghubar Das) has ordered to constitute an SIT to probe into the murder of Shankar Yadav,” said the[Read More…]
Shillong: Former Union Minister Vincent H. Pala today exuded confidence that Meghalaya’s ruling Congress will come to power on its own after the February 27 assembly elections. “We (Congress) are contesting in all the 60 assembly constituencies alone. In the past, Congress has worked with like-minded parties but this time, the[Read More…]
Ranchi: Over a dozen vehicles were torched on Wednesday by an angry mob over an objectionable religious post on the social media, police said. Hundreds of people assembled on the Ranchi-Jamshedpur highway at Bundu, around 40 Km from here, over the post allegedly against a particular religion. The angry people pelted[Read More…]
Pughoboto (Nagaland): Nagaland’s ruling Naga People’s Front (NPF) chief, Shurhozelie Liezietsu on Tuesday revealed that the party could not agree to seat-sharing with the Bharatiya Janata Party since it knew the consequences would be very negative. However, he said that the newly-floated Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) came forward offering the[Read More…]
Kolkata: With reports of more symptoms of diarrhoea from adjoining areas of affected wards of Kolkata Municipal Corporation, over 1,100 people were so far affected due to the outbreak, an official said on Tuesday. As many as 10 wards of the corporation in the southern and eastern parts of the city[Read More…]
Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday said that poor people should also stay clean and that it costs less to stay clean, pointing out to the lack of hygiene, especially by street vendors hawking outside the state’s biggest medical facility here. “Let us be clean, neat. Poor persons should[Read More…]
New Delhi: Union Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday ordered an inquiry into the blast at Cochin Shipyard in Kerala in which five persons were killed. The Minister, however, confirmed the death of four persons. “Shocked by the unfortunate blast at Cochin Shipyard where four people have died. My heartfelt condolences[Read More…]
Five persons were killed and a dozen others injured in a blast inside an Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) tanker at the Cochin Shipyard here in Kerala on Tuesday, police said. Those working at the time of the blast mostly included daily labourers and contract workers. Tuesday is a[Read More…]
Kannur: Thirty-year-old Youth Congress worker, Shoaib was found murdered late last night by CPI-M workers, the party said. The Left party’s leadership here has denied any role in it. The Congress party called for a dawn-to-dusk shut down in protest of the murder in the district but allowed vehicles to ply.[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday slammed the CBI’s SIT for not properly probing alleged extra-judicial killings by the Army, Assam Rifles and police in Manipur and asked why FIRs were lodged against the victims and not against officers. A division bench of Justices M.B. Lokur and Justice U.U. Lalit[Read More…]
Dimapur: Nagaland’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday lodged a police complaint against a news portal that claimed top party leader Ram Madhav was caught red-handed by separatist National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Issac-Muivah) with two Naga women in a hotel room here. “It is a false report to tarnish the[Read More…]
Koppal: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to waive loans of farmers than working only for the rich, businessmen and industrialists. “Though the Modi government works for the rich, businessmen and industrialists, I urge the Prime Minister to waive loans of farmers who are the[Read More…]
Kohima: Nagaland Home Minister Kuzholuzo Nienu on Friday exuded confidence that his Naga People’s Front (NPF) will retain power in Nagaland by securing more than 30 seats in the February 27 elections while the BJP will only get three to six in the 60-member assembly. “Out of the total of 19[Read More…]
With the Election Commission issuing notification for the three by-elections in Bihar, the ruling party, as well as the Opposition leaders, have started gearing up for the bypolls. The RJD chief Lalu Prasad, who is serving jail sentence in Ranchi, on Friday said that his party would field candidates on[Read More…]
Angel investor Mahesh Murthy who was arrested in Mumbai in connection with a molestation case was released on a surety bond on Friday evening. Murthy, the founder and Chief executive officer of Digital Agency Pinstorm was arrested in Khar for allegedly harassing and stalking a Delhi based woman on social media. “We have arrested him[Read More…]
New Delhi: Both the low sex ratio and child sex ratio in Punjab have improved over the last decade due to sustained civil society efforts to change the mindset, Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal said on Friday. Inaugurating the One Globe Forum on the digital economy, Badal said that besides[Read More…]
New Delhi: By-elections to the Lok Sabha seats of Gorakhpur and Phulpur in Uttar Pradesh and Araira in Bihar will be held on March 11, the Election Commission announced on Friday. Polling will also be held in the Jehanabad and Bhabua Assembly constituencies of Bihar the same day. The poll[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: A mob of hundreds of men and women ransacked and set ablaze a police station in Odisha’s Sambalpur district on Friday to protest the custodial death of a theft accused. The irate mob damaged property at the Ainthapali police station vandalised several vehicles and attacked the personnel by pelting stones[Read More…]
Shillong: Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma on Thursday hit out at NDA Central government for rejecting the visa application of Baptist World Alliance chief, Reverend Paul Msiza, to attend the 150 years celebrations of Christianity in the state’s Garo Hills region. “It is highly condemnable to reject the visa application of[Read More…]
New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday that the entre was sympathetically working on all issues concerning Andhra Pradesh and a decision on a special package would be finalised over next few days. Jaitley, who was replying to the debate on the general budget for 2017-18 in the[Read More…]
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress MP Dinesh Trivedi on Thursday said former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi are martyrs, and while criticising them, this should be kept in mind. Participating in a debate on the Budget in Lok Sabha, Trivedi said even though politicians may not agree with them on[Read More…]
