Mumbai: Actress Sonakshi Sinha has written a letter to Rajasthan Minister for Forest, Environment, Youth Affairs and Sports Gajendra Singh Khimsar to relocate an elephant to a rehabilitation facility for urgent care after reports of a violent beating. A group of American tourists witnessed eight men violently beating the elephant known[Read More…]
Lucknow: Two persons circulating inflammatory videos and communal messages on social media were arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Kasganj district on Tuesday, police said. Identified as Ram Singh and Ajay Gupta, one of them is the admin of a WhatsApp group on which inflammatory posts were being circulated, in an apparent bid[Read More…]
Chandigarh: The Haryana Police on Saturday arrested three people for allegedly assaulting two Kashmiri students in Mahendergarh town in south Haryana. “Guilty will be punished. The incident began over a minor collision of the motorcycle of the accused. Three people have already been arrested and senior officer (SP) is on the[Read More…]
Panaji: A trial court here will, on February 8, hear a case involving alleged election code of conduct violation by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in January last year. The over and year old case was registered as a non-cognisable offence at the Mapusa police station following a complaint by the[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to set up a tribunal, as directed by the Supreme Court, to resolve the Mahanadi water dispute with Chhattisgarh. He also requested Modi to direct the Union Water Resources Ministry to instruct the Chhattisgarh government to stop construction[Read More…]
Kolkata: In a formidable showing, West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress wrested the Noapara Assembly seat from the Congress on Thursday and was all set to retain the Uluberia Lok Sabha seat with a huge margin even as the BJP emerged its main challenger. The counting was taken up on Thursday of[Read More…]
Jaipur: In a spectacular showing, the Congress on Thursday raced ahead of the BJP in the Lok Sabha constituencies of Ajmer and Alwar and the Mandalgarh Assembly seat in Rajasthan where by-elections took place on Monday. Congress candidates led from the beginning in both the Lok Sabha seats and edged past[Read More…]
Mumbai: Taking a grim view of the suicide by an octogenarian peasant demanding fair compensation for his acquired lands, the Shiv Sena on Tuesday warned its ruling ally BJP that Dharma Patil’s funeral pyre will destroy the BJP government. Condemning the incident which happened in the state government Mantralaya where[Read More…]
New Delhi: Advocate Chintaman N. Vanga, BJP Lok Sabha MP from Palghar in Maharashtra, passed away following a massive heart attack in a New Delhi hospital on Tuesday afternoon, a party official said. According to an official, Vanga was rushed to a Delhi hospital after he suffered a heart attack but[Read More…]
Kohima: Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday said that holding of timely elections is a constitutional process and the government is bound by the Constitution after several Naga civil society groups and political parties have sought deferment of the February 27 Nagaland elections. The Core Committee[Read More…]
Chandigarh: Murmurs in the corridors of power about early assembly elections in Haryana have put the main political parties and politicians into drive mode — quite literally. Top politicians and parties have opted for different modes of transport in this political season to drive home their respective political messages to the[Read More…]
Bhopal: Former Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on Tuesday took oath as the Governor of Madhya Pradesh. Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court Justice Hemant Gupta administered the oath of office to Patel in a function at the Raj Bhavan. Parliament Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan[Read More…]
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday took potshots at Congress president Rahul Gandhi for his recent visits to temples and for sporting a ‘janeyu’ (sacred Hindu thread), saying that people will never forgive those who set aside welfare of the majority community. Addressing a function of the Akhil[Read More…]
Nashik: A court here on Saturday awarded the death sentence to all six convicts in the honour killings of three Dalit youths in Ahmednagar in 2013. The Nashik District Sessions Court had pronounced the six guilty and acquitted one in the case, on Monday in its much-anticipated verdict. Special Public Prosecutor[Read More…]
Patna: The 16-year-old son of a property dealer who was kidnapped for ransom on Thursday was found murdered here on Friday, police said. The body of Raunak Kumar, a Class 9 student and son of Sudhir Kumar, was found in a shuttered shop in Kadamkuan locality. His hands were tied with[Read More…]
The two-day Bengal Global Business Summit organised by the state government has so far received new investment proposals worth Rs 2,19,925 crore, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced here on Wednesday. Addressing delegates on the concluding day of the meet, Banerjee said 50 per cent of last year’s business proposals and[Read More…]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Maharashtra government to share all the documents relating to the death of Special CBI Judge B.H. Loya with the petitioners seeking independent probe and adjourned the matter for seven days. “This is a matter, they must get everything. There should not be any[Read More…]
Chandigarh: Punjab’s powerful cabinet minister Rana Gurjit Singh has submitted his resignation from the Congress government in the state led by Chief Minister Amarinder Singh following allegations of corruption and money laundering against him. The resignation is yet to be accepted by the Chief Minister, sources in the government said. Rana[Read More…]
Former Union minister Raghunath Jha passed away at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi last night. Jha was Union Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprise under former prime minister Manmohan Singh’s government. He was a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and represented Bihar’s Bettiah constituency.[Read More…]
Thiruvananthapuram: Former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Monday strongly condemned the proposed move by the Centre to come out with an orange colour passports for those who have not passed their Class 10 examination, calling it discriminatory. “No way this proposal should go forward. This is creating two different types[Read More…]
Lucknow: As Rahul Gandhi is set to make the first trip to his parliamentary constituency as the Congress president on Monday, posters eulogising him as an incarnation of Lord Rama slaying Prime Minister Narendra Modi, portrayed as the ten-headed demon king Ravan, have appeared at various places in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi[Read More…]
Panaji: Karnataka has already started diverting water from the Mhadei river which would have otherwise flowed into Goa, its Water Resource Minister Vinod Palienkar said on Saturday and termed Kannadigas “harami” (illegitimate). He later said that the abuse was uttered in the spur of the moment and requested the media[Read More…]
Kolkata: A 17-year-old girl in West Bengal’s East Midnapore has appealed to the district authorities to allow her to kill herself as she has become pregnant after allegedly being raped by a man on the promise of marriage, police said on Saturday. “We got intimation from District Magistrate’s public grievance[Read More…]
Normal life was affected on Friday in Kota, Bundi, Jhalawar and Itawa in Rajasthan due to a shutdown called by right-wing bodies, including the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal, to protest against police lathi charge in Bundi last week. Schools, colleges, petrol pumps and shops were closed, with police[Read More…]
The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a notice to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and others on a plea by the CBI challenging their discharge in an alleged corruption case involving three hydel power projects in the state. A bench of Justice N.V. Ramana and Justice S. Abdul Nazeer also[Read More…]
