Due to scorching heat and extreme shortage of drinking water in the state, villagers have taken up the daunting task of digging a huge pond in Jharkhand. They are digging the pond in the Hundaru township of the state, close to the airport road. There are around five-six townships in[Read More…]
An Indian Air Force Sukhoi-30 fighter aircraft has gone missing after it lost radio contact in Assam’s Tezpur, near China border on Tuesday. The fighter jet, with two pilots on board, took off from Salonibari in Assam at 10.30 am on Tuesday. The aircraft’s fleet was facing some engine troubles[Read More…]
Manohar Lal Khattar-led BJP government in Haryana has allotted prime land in Gurugram to its own organisational unit, in wake of the land allotment to Associated Journals Limited (AJL) in the state. In October 2016, the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) had allotted 4,000 sq metre (one acre) plot for[Read More…]
Former Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP Prabhunath Singh along with two others were awarded life sentence by a court in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh on Tuesday. They have been convicted in link with a 22-year-old MLA Ashok Singh’s murder case. Singh along with his brother Dinanath and former mukhiya Ritesh Singh were[Read More…]
The results of the Class X exams of the Punjab School Education Board (PSEB) were declared on Tuesday showing the girls surpassing the boys. Significantly, the pass percentage of girls’ was 63.97, much more than the boys’ whose number stood at 52.35 per cent. The overall pass percentage was 57.5.[Read More…]
At least 9 people were booked for kidnapping children by Ratlam Government Railway Police on Tuesday. The accused were taking 60 tribal children to Nagpur. They were booked under the Madhya Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act. Nine accused including two women were detained at Ratlam railway station by the Railway[Read More…]
The 10-year-old girl who was raped and impregnated by her stepfather successfully underwent an abortion and is doing better now. She was discharged from the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) in Rohtak on Monday. The minor has been rehabilitated to a Child Care Institution (CCI) in Bahadurgarh by[Read More…]
In a blow to the VIP culture, an ambulance of Hosmat hospital, which was carrying an emergency patient, was given precedence over Chief Minister of Karnataka convoy. The ambulance was allowed to overtake CM of Karnataka convoy with their concurrence. “BTP (Bangalore Traffic police) stood by my instructions to prioritise[Read More…]
Two days after South Indian superstar Rajinikanth announced that he might join politics, BJP president Amit Shah on Sunday said the party’s doors were open for him. However, Shah said that it is entirely upon the actor to take a call on whether he wants to join the party or[Read More…]
In yet another violent incident, people in Jamshedpur pelted stones at the Munshi Mohalla Masjid on Saturday. The mob continued to throw stones at the masjid and the police did nothing to stop the incident and take control of the situation. A Facebook user had uploaded videos that show the[Read More…]
Some areas in Jamshedpur saw fresh clashes between protestors and the police on Sunday morning. Prohibitory orders were imposed in four parts of the city after there were acts of violence in and around the areas on Saturday. These orders were imposed under Section 144, which disallows more than four[Read More…]
With support from the United Nations and more than 300 volunteers, Afroz Shah, a lawyer from Mumbai has been able to remove 5 million kgs trash from Versova beach in Mumbai, since he first started the drive back in 2015. The Twitterati is all praises for the commendable job he has[Read More…]
On Saturday, Sam Pitroda lashed out at the Odisha BJP unit for demanding his removal as the Technical Advisor to the state government in the wake of WannaCry ransomware attack. BJP’s state unit Vice-President Samir Mohanty had recently alleged Pitroda of his involvement with the National Herald case, demanding that he[Read More…]
BJP state media coordinator of its scheduled caste cell, Neeraj Shakya has been expelled from the party after he was arrested by the Bhopal Police cyber cell for allegedly running a sex racket. Neeraj along with eight of his associates was arrested on Friday as the police rescued four girls who[Read More…]
In what is considered a great move, Kerala has become the first Indian state to make sanitary napkin vending machines compulsory in all higher secondary schools. As only a week is left for the schools to reopen after summer vacation, the government has directed that all schools should have vending[Read More…]
The Kerala swami, who had been accused of repeated rape by a young woman in Kerala has claimed that he himself and not the girl, had cut his sexual organ as it was not ‘useful’ to him. His comments are from the statement he gave to the Kerala Police after[Read More…]
In a disturbing incident that could have endangered the health of many, in Anganwadi centres in Katni district of Madhya Pradesh, a lizard was found in the mid-day meal. Notably, Angwadis are mother and child care centre in rural India. They were started by the Indian government in 1975 as[Read More…]
The Barabanki court on Friday acquitted former AMU scholar Gulzar Ahmed Wani of terror charges in 2000 Sabarmati Express train blast case. Wani was arrested over his alleged connections with Hijbul Mujahideen in the 2002 Sabarmati train blast case, which had claimed 10 lives. However, the Supreme Court had granted[Read More…]
Former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala has again once again become a centre of controversies. According to media reports, the news of Chautala passing intermediate has been doing the rounds. As per media sources, he had given false representations of his educational qualifications before contesting for the elections in the[Read More…]
In what is considered to be a bold move, a young woman in Kerala tried to chop off the penis of a Swami, which according to her, was an act of self-defence. The parents of a 23-year-old woman were followers of a swami from an ashram at Padmana in Kollam,[Read More…]
On Friday, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee asked her party leaders and elected representatives to be prepared for “any situation” in the days to come in view of the upcoming Lok Sabha State Assembly polls. As Banerjee held extended core meeting with TMC MPs and MLAs, she chalked out the party’s line[Read More…]
As the Modi government is to finish its third year in office on 26 May, UP CM Yogi Adityanath, his Deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya, Union minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti among other prominent leaders and MPs will visit Bihar to showcase the achievements of the Narendra Modi government in the past[Read More…]
In Kerala, a newly formed all-women organisation called Women Collective in Cinema put forward some demands to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. These demands take account of the inclusion of the film industry under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 and calls for a[Read More…]
Mangal Pandey, the newly-appointed BJP in-charge of Himachal Pradesh urged the party workers on Friday to work hard and ensure the party’s victory in the upcoming Assembly elections. He was heard giving the slogan of 60 plus seats. He also said that people wanted a change from the allegedly “corrupt-Congress government”.[Read More…]
While the government is amplifying its efforts to pursue the mission of exclusively using ‘Made in India’ steel, many steel plants seem to grow their capacity in this view. The Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) has commissioned a SinterPlant in Angul, JSPL Chairman Naveen Jindal tweeted on Friday. The[Read More…]