Terming West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s visit to a temple in Birbhum district as “soft Hindutva”, state BJP President Dilip Ghosh on Wednesday said the ruling party was trying to arrest consolidation of “Hindu votes” in favour of his party. “If we go to temples, we are branded as[Read More…]
The Goa government is working on an effective legislation to put curbs on binge drinking and consumption of alcohol in public places, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Wednesday. “There will be some solutions in the Budgetary exercise. This requires legal solutions and proper directions and preparedness by the government…[Read More…]
A total of 141 Kerala fishermen remain missing following Cyclone Ockhi that hit the southern districts of Kerala and Tamil Nadu on November 30, according to official figures released here on Wednesday. Another 75 fishermen from other states who went fishing from the Kerala coast are also untraced. A total[Read More…]
In a meeting on Thursday, it was decided that the number of tourists visiting the Taj Mahal will be capped at 30,000 per day. The decision comes after a minor stampede that happened at one of the entry gates of the monument last Thursday. The quantity of tourist going to[Read More…]
A mentally unstable man, who had allegedly murdered six persons in just two hours with an iron rod, was arrested on Tuesday in Haryana’s Palwal city, police said. The crime took place within 100 metres of the police station early on Tuesday and was recorded in a CCTV camera that[Read More…]
Karnataka will purchase 640 electric vehicles under the Central government’s Fame India subsidised scheme, an official said on Monday. “We have received approval from the Department of Heavy Industries to purchase the electric vehicles under the National Electricity Mobility Mission of the Central government’s Fame India scheme,” the statement said.[Read More…]
The Assam government has published the first draft of the much-awaited National Register of Citizens (NRC) which includes names of 1.9 crore people of total 3.29 crore applicants in the state, an official said. Registrar General of India (RGI), Sailesh said this while addressing a press conference at 11.45 p.m.[Read More…]
A man in a Bihar village has allegedly drawn government funds good enough for constructing 42 toilets in his house, an official said on Saturday. Yogeshwar Choudhary, a resident of Vishnupur Ram village under Hajipur Sadar block in Vaishali district, has managed to draw the funds for construction of toilets[Read More…]
A 30-year-old man on Saturday tried to jump in front of the car of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath here to draw his attention to illegal mining allegedly being patronised by BJP leaders. As Adityanath was headed to Lok Bhawan for an event, the man who had camouflaged himself[Read More…]
The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday once again issued instructions to all government offices to put up a picture of Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar. The government offices told to put up Ambedkar’s picture include the Legislative Assembly, Legislative Council, state secretariat, public sector institutions, municipal corporations/councils and educational institutions. A[Read More…]
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday ordered action against a school in Palakkad for allowing RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat to hoist the national flag during the Independence Day celebrations. Vijayan directed the Director of Public Instruction (DPI) to ensure that proper action was taken against the Headmaster and Manager[Read More…]
Remembering his early years spent at The Mall Road in Himachal Pradesh and at the Indian Coffee House with his journalist friends, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday didn’t miss an opportunity to sip a cup of coffee. As he was on his way to the airstrip, Modi’s cavalcade stopped[Read More…]
Two teenaged girls were found hanging from a tree in Noida, adjoining national capital Delhi, on Tuesday, police said. The bodies were spotted by people in Noida’s Barola village in Uttar Pradesh. The deceased have been identified as Laxmi, 18, and her sister Nisha, 14. Police said they were probing[Read More…]
Vijay Rupani on Tuesday took oath as the Chief Minister of Gujarat for a second stint after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the state assembly elections for the sixth time in a row. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah, along with other key leaders of the[Read More…]
A central team landed on Tuesday to assess damages caused by Cyclone Ockhi, which struck the southern districts of Kerala and Tamil Nadu on November 30. A total of 74 persons have been killed and according to the Latin Diocese, more than 250 continued to remain missing. The team, consisting[Read More…]
The new Himachal Pradesh cabinet, to be headed by new and ‘young’ Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur, will be a blend of old and new faces. An indication in this regard was given by Thakur himself. “The cabinet will have both experienced and new faces,” he told reporters here in[Read More…]
Karan Singh Yadav will be the Congress candidate for the Lok Sabha bypoll in Alwar, a party leader said on Sunday. Yadav, a doctor by profession, has been a two-time MLA from Behrod and also an MP from Alwar. Jitendra Singh, an aide of Congress President Rahul Gandhi, was in[Read More…]
Chennai: Sidelined AIADMK leader T.T.V.Dinakaran on Sunday established a massive lead over his nearest rival, E.Madhusudhanan of the AIADMK in the by-election for the Radhakrishnan Nagar (R.K.Nagar) constituency that fell vacant after the death of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa. Dinakaran, who is contesting as an Independent, had got[Read More…]
Kolkata: West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress on Sunday won the Sabang Assembly constituency by-poll, by a massive margin of 64,192 votes. Trinamool candidate Gita Rani Bhunia got 1,06,179 votes while her nearest rival Rita Mondal of the the Left Front backed Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) secured 41,987 votes. Amid a[Read More…]
Shimla: Five-time legislator Jairam Thakur, who rose from the ranks and is known for his humble, low-profile stature, will be the 13th Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, the BJP announced on Sunday. A decision in this regard was unanimously taken at the BJP Legislative Party meeting where central observers — Union[Read More…]
The National Farmers Day is being celebrated on December 23 every year on the birth anniversary of Chaudhary Charan Singh, the 7th Prime Minister of India. On this very noteworthy occasion, here we bring you a story of a woman who has just not broken the stereotype but her effort[Read More…]
At least 30 people were killed and 15 injured when a passenger bus fell into a river on Saturday near Rajasthan’s Sawai Madhopur, police said. The Sawai Madhopur-Lalsot bus was driven by a 16-year-old conductor who lost control due to over-speeding, officials said. The bus skidded and fell off a[Read More…]
Vijay Rupani will continue as the Chief Minister of Gujarat and Nitin Patel as his deputy, the BJP announced on Friday after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley oversaw a meeting of the party’s newly-elected MLAs. The legislators unanimously elected Rupani as leader of the BJP’s legislature party, Jaitley told reporters. He[Read More…]
The Uttar Pradesh government has stopped the salaries of 298 staff and teachers at 43 madrasas in the state that have not submitted the required details, an official said on Friday. Minority Welfare and Muslim Waqf Minister Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary told the legislative council that of the total 560 madrasas[Read More…]
In yet another protest against a Bollywood film, the morning shows of “Tiger Zinda Hai”, a Salman Khan-Katrina Kaif starred film, had to be stopped in many cinema halls across Rajasthan after members of the Valmiki community raised slogans, tore and burnt posters of the film over the alleged use[Read More…]
