Amidst the ongoing rift, between Bihar chief minister, Nitish Kumar and rebel leader, Sharad Yadav, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday displayed their firm support for the former and said that Yadav has absolutely had no locus of his own. “Firstly, the issue of Sharad Yadav is an internal[Read More…]
The death toll went up to 23 people in the Utkal Express derailment that happened on Saturday evening. Over 70 people are reported to have been injured in the accident. Sources say that the accident happened because of ‘maintenance failure’, while the railways is examining all possibilities behind the derailment.[Read More…]
The Congress on Saturday reacted at the Janata Dal (United)’s resolution to join the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). It said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) should change its name to the BJP-United. Congress leader, Tom Vadakkan, felt that the merger was inevitable. “This was bound to happen. This isn’t[Read More…]
Prior to the meeting, both the factions resorted to ‘poster wars’ and verbal jibes with each claiming to represent the real JD(U).
Tragdey continues to envelop Gorakhpur’s BRD Medical College as nine more children were reported dead in the last 24 hours between Thursday and Friday. The toll has gone up to 105 since the 10 August tragedy. Dr PK Singh of the medical college confirmed the deaths, while briefing the media[Read More…]
In another incident of neglect in cow shelters, over 200 cows died in two days because of starvation and lack of proper care in a gaushala in Rajpur in Chattisgarh, as villagers claimed on Friday. BJP leader, Harish Verma, runs by the gaushala. He has been running it for the[Read More…]
Tripura chief minister, Manik Sarkar, received death threats on social networking site, Facebook. The post read that the user called for the CM to be beheaded and offered Rs 5.5 lakh for the crime. An FIR has been filed and the state police are investigating the matter. The FIR was[Read More…]
There seems to be a never-ending exchange of allegations and accusations between the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress in Jamtara in Jharkhand. BJP party workers on Wednesday night stopped Congress MLA, Irfan Ansari, and forced him to chant ‘Vande Mataram’ and ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’. The incident is[Read More…]
Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Akhilesh Yadav, was detained by the police in Unnao on Agra-Lucknow Expressway on Thursday. He was on his way to meet ex-MLA & Samajwadi Party leader, Pradeep Yadav, who was beaten in clashes during district panchayat president elections in Auraiya. SP party workers staged a[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday said that if he cannot stop the offering of namaz on roads during Eid, he has no right to stop the celebrations of Janmashtami at police stations. “Agar mai sadak par Eid ke din namaz padhne pe rok nahi laga sakta to[Read More…]
As heavy rains in the last three days triggered flash floods in parts of Bihar, where 41 people have died so far and 65.37 lakh affected, and inundated large areas in Assam and north Bengal, hitting the normal life and snapping rail link to the northeast. In Arunachal Pradesh too,[Read More…]
In a shocking incident, a 40-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly branded a witch, stripped, beaten-up and made to eat faeces in a village in Rajasthan’s Ajmer district. She was then dragged by her hair and forced to lie on a bed of embers. The embers were then shoved into her[Read More…]
Tulasigeri village in Bagalkot of Karnataka weaves khadi cloth that is used for making the national flag hoisted at Red Fort and other such government installations. The stitching is done at the Khadi Gramodyog, Samyukta Sangha in Hubballi. Days before the nation begins preparations for the Independence Day celebrations, a[Read More…]
While Gorakhpur is still coming to terms with the loss of over 60 infants, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ordered the state authorities to celebrate Krishna Janmashtami in a “grand” way. In a communique issued late on Sunday to the Director General of Police (DGP) Sulkhan Singh, Adityanath said:[Read More…]
The Centre on Sunday agreed to grant an exemption to Tamil Nadu from the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for admissions to MBBS and BDS courses this year. The decision was announced by union minister Nirmala Sitharaman at an event in Chennai. State health minister, Vijayabaskar confirmed that the[Read More…]
Death toll rose to 15 in the massive landslide that hit Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district. More bodies were recovered by Sunday evening and as many as five persons were reported injured. The landslide hit Mandi on Saturday. Chief minister, Virbhadra Singh, who visited the site earlier in the day on[Read More…]
The Centre on Sunday approved the setting up of a regional medical centre in Gorakhpur for research into children’s diseases. The decision was announced by Union minister of health and family welfare, J P Nadda. Earlier on Sunday, the minister, along with Uttar Pradesh CM, Yogi Adityanath, visited the BRD[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Yogi Adityanath visited BRD Medical College in his constituency, Gorakhpur on Sunday, where around 70 children lost lives due to shortage of oxygen supply in the hospital. He said, “nobody can be more sensitive towards those children than me”. He also said that ‘those whose sensitivity[Read More…]
In wake of all the tragedies that Gorakhpur has been experiencing lately, the official website of the BRD Medical College, http://www.brdmc.org/ has been suspended. Patients cannot view important things like the appointment with doctor, the date, services available and the cost of treatment on the site. The suspension of the website has[Read More…]
In a heart-wrenching incident, a father was reportedly forced by the Gorakhpur hospital administration to carry the dead body of his child in an auto rickshaw, as it could become a hindrance to the security arrangement of Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Yogi Adityanath. Adityanath is scheduled to visit the hospital on Sunday, where[Read More…]
Taking the death toll to 70, another child battled for life and succumbed to encephalitis on Sunday, in Gorakhpur’s Baba Raghav Das Medical College hospital. Till Friday, the death toll stood at 60. Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said that a magisterial inquiry has been ordered into[Read More…]
At least five people were killed and around 50 others were feared dead after two HRTC buses got washed away following a massive landslide in Kotroopi area of Mandi district in Himachal Pradesh early on Sunday. One bus was travelling to Chamba from Manali, and the other was on its[Read More…]
Assam’s situation worsens on Saturday, as flood claimed five lives affecting nearly 11 lakh people across 19 districts. According to a report by the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), two persons died in Dhemaji and one each in Lakhimpur, Kokrajhar and Morigaon districts. With this, the total number of[Read More…]
The Jharkhand government on Friday banned Sahitya Akademi award winning writer Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s book, The Adivasi Will Not Dance, alleging that it hurt the dignity of women of the Santhal tribe. The matter was tossed in the Jharkhand Assembly by Opposition leader Sita Soren. The Santhal legislator said the[Read More…]
Amidst the political turmoil with strained ties within the ‘Mahagathbandhan’, Senior MP Sharad Yadav has been removed as leader of the JD(U) in Rajya Sabha on Saturday, said reports. He is likely to be replaced by Nitish Kumar’s close aide Ramchandra Prasad Singh. Notably, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on[Read More…]