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…]
If the BJP were to start a film franchise it would be called “Lie Hard”, Congress President Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday, tweaking the name of popular American action series “Die Hard” – in a dig at the ruling party, a day after he described its foundation as based on[Read More…]
Goa’s state-run hospitals will start charging a minimum fee from outstation patients, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Saturday. “Goa government is responsible for Goans and therefore we will take care of Goans. About neighbours coming, we have no objection to it. The charges are very minimal,” Parrikar said. The[Read More…]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) victory in Gujarat was largely based on the support it received in the urban areas. In rural areas, however, the Congress generally held sway. As a result, the urban-rural divide, or what has been called the gulf between “India” and “Bharat”, was quite prominent in[Read More…]
The Congress Working Committee, the highest decision-making body of the party, on Friday accused the BJP of “concocting a conspiracy” in the 2G spectrum case and demanded its apology as well as from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The opposition party also alleged that former Comptroller and Auditor General Vinod Rai[Read More…]
A bill to extend the deadline for a law to protect slums and other unauthorised colonies in the national capital till 2020 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Friday. The National Capital Territory of Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Second (Amendment) Bill, 2017 was tabled in the lower House by[Read More…]
The fate of two former Chief Ministers of Bihar — Lalu Prasad and Jagannath Mishra — will be decided on Saturday in a fodder scam case. Lalu Prasad, also the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief, reached Ranchi on Friday evening, along with his son Tejashwi Yadav to hear the verdict.[Read More…]
With the aim to provide each Anganwadi Centre (AWC) with its own building, the government will construct four lakh more Anganwadi Centre buildings across the country by 2019, the Women and Child Development Ministry said in a statement on Friday. According to the statement, the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)[Read More…]
Congress President Rahul Gandhi, who will be in Gujarat on Saturday to attend a review meeting to analyse the party’s showing in the assembly elections, will start by visiting the Somnath Temple. During his three-day visit to the state, Gandhi will hold meetings with all the newly-elected MLAs and leaders[Read More…]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which fell one short of a ton in the Gujarat Assembly elections, on Friday managed to reach the three-figure mark with the support of an independent, who was actually from the Congress. Ratansinh Rathore, the newly-elected independent legislator from Lunawada constituency, has sent a letter[Read More…]
Congress Working Committee members said on Friday that “struggle for people” will be the way forward for the party and urged President Rahul Gandhi to prepare a comprehensive strategy in view of the coming electoral battles. Briefing reporters about the first meeting of the party’s highest decision-making body chaired by[Read More…]
Big names, extravagant budgets, picturesque locales and brilliant promotions — and yet, insufficient box office collections. The Year 2017 has been a mixed bag for stars like Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Kangana Ranaut and Ranbir Kapoor. While hopes were pinned high on some of their films, they fell flat[Read More…]
Rahul Gandhi on Friday chaired a Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting, his first after taking over as party president, and launched a scathing attack on the BJP terming the ruling party’s entire structure as “based on lies”. With the Congress’ spirits greatly buoyed by the party’s good showing in the[Read More…]
New Delhi: Shashi Arora, CEO and Managing Director of Airtel Payments Bank, has stepped down, the company announced on Friday – nearly a week after the Unique Identification Authority of India, (UIDAI) suspended its Aadhaar linked e-KYC services because of alleged misuse. “Shashi Arora has been associated with Airtel in senior[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 acquittal of DMK leaders Kanimozhi, daughter of party President M. Karunanidhi, and former Union Telecom Minister A. Raja, and others by a court in the 2G spectrum case has come as a big boost for the party and could lead to a political realignment in Tamil Nadu, especially with[Read More…]
Nationalist Congress Party’s Rajya Sabha Member Majeed Memon on Friday hit out at Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for his comments after the verdict in the 2G spectrum case was delivered, acquitting all the accused. Questioning Jaitley’s remark that the Congress considered the verdict as “a badge of honour”, Memon[Read More…]
A day after late Tamil poet Inqulab’s family said it would accept this year’s posthumously-conferred Sahitya Akademi Award, the Akademi said it hadn’t received any formal letter and will take decision only after receiving it. “We have just received a mail stating ‘Inqulab Family and Trust’ at the end of[Read More…]
Two-time former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and suave Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha member Shashi Tharoor are likely to make it to the Congress Working Committee (CWC), either as permanent or special invitees to the party’s highest decision-making body, according to the buzz in Congress circles in Kerala. Rahul Gandhi, who has[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…]
Former Supreme Court judge, Justice GS Singhvi, who in 2012 pronounced the cancellation of 122 2G spectrum licences, on Friday said the case before the top court was the allocation of spectrum without auction, while the CBI court was to see whether there was a conspiracy in the allocation. “The[Read More…]
An Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader in Bihar was shot dead on Friday by unidentified assailants, police said. Hareram Yadav, 50, was out on his morning walk when motorcycle-borne men shot him dead in Bihar’s Samastipur district. According to a district police official Ajeet Kumar, the incident took place[Read More…]
The Rajya Sabha was adjourned till Wednesday after the opposition, led by the Congress, on Friday sought a “solution” to the ongoing impasse over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks against his predecessor Manmohan Singh before conducting any business. Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu, rejecting the opposition’s demand, initially adjourned the House[Read More…]
The Bombay High Court on Friday set aside governor’s sanction to prosecute former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan in Adarsh Scam. The senior congress leader had filed a petition terming governor C Vidyasagar Rao’s order of 2016 as “arbitrary, illegal and unjust.” Chavan had alleged that it was passed without[Read More…]
In a shocking incident, a youth set afire a girl in full public view here on Wednesday, police said on Thursday. The incident occurred in Lalaguda area in the evening when the 23-year-old girl was returning home from work. Sandhya Rani sustained 80 per cent burns and she was rushed[Read More…]