The first of Gujarat’s two-phase assembly polls began on Saturday across 89 constituencies spread out in the 19 districts of Kutch, Saurashtra and southern regions. A total of 977 candidates are in the fray from Kutch, Morbi, Jamnagar, Surendranagar, Devbhoomi Dwarka, Rajkot, Botad, Porbandar, Junagadh, Amreli, Gir Somnath, Bhavnagar, Bharuch,[Read More…]
Jharkhand has slipped to the 13th position from seventh in the ease of doing business rankings, according to government data on Friday. The ranking is topped by Haryana (with 69 per cent score), followed by Telangana (68.46) and Gujarat (67.74), according to the website of the Department of Industrial Policy[Read More…]
BJP leader and union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday attacked the Congress, saying they did not spare a “single element of this earth” from corruption and “covering it (corruption) and saving the guilty has been their history”. “If we take the air waves, then there is 2G scam; if[Read More…]
Pakistan on Friday allowed the mother and wife of alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, currently on death row, to meet him at a prison on December 25. A staff member from the Indian High Commission will be present at the meeting and “complete security will be provided to the visitors”,[Read More…]
Actor Shahid Kapoor, who plays one of the three key characters in “Padmavati”, has thanked his “Rangoon” co-star Kangana Ranaut for extending her support to the controversial film, and said creative people shouldn’t be scared. Shahid, who was present at the Reebok Fit To Fight Awards on Thursday night, said:[Read More…]
Film: “Fukrey Returns” Director: Mrighdeep Singh Lamba Cast: Pulkit Samrat, Varun Sharma, Ali Fazal, Manjot Singh, Richa Chadha and Priya Anand Rating: **1/2 Sequels are expected to be bigger, better and ideally build on everything that made the original successful. On paper, “Fukrey Returns” boasts of everything one expects from[Read More…]
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced Rs 3 lakh compensation to the family of a migrant labourer from the state who was hacked to death in Rajasthan and a job to a family member. “Very sad incident happened in Rajasthan. Afrajul Khan of Malda of our state[Read More…]
BJP Maharashtra leader Nana Patole announced on Friday that he had resigned from the Lok Sabha and quit the party too. Patole, elected from Bhandara-Gondiya, said he had submitted his resignation to Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and also the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership. Meghalaya assembly’s three-day session to begin[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s wife Jasodaben took a dip in the holy Ganga in Allahabad on Friday and performed puja. In the city to attend a community wedding event, Jasodaben, who is accompanied by her brother, also visited the Akshayvat tree and paid obeisance at the ‘Bade Hanuman’ temple. Modi[Read More…]
Stressing that Adivasis in Gujarat were in bad condition, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Friday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi “where did Rs 55,000 crore meant for Vanbandhu scheme go?”. This was Gandhi’s 10th question as part of a Congress strategy wherein he would put one question daily to[Read More…]
A day after the Kumbh Mela mass Hindu pilgrimage was inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday described it as a matter of immense joy and pride for the country. “A matter of immense joy and pride for India,” Modi[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address four rallies in election-bound Gujarat’s Bhabhar, Kalol, Himmatnagar and Nikol regions on Friday, where polling is scheduled for the second phase on December 14. “Will address rallies in Bhabhar, Kalol, Himmatnagar and Nikol,” Modi tweeted. The counting of votes will take place on December[Read More…]
The first-ever Tesla has landed in India, and it’s a blue Model X with its steering on the right side. It could be a personal vehicle and not meant for official testing. Tesla allowed Indians to book the Model 3 but hasn’t since signalled if or when it’ll arrive. The vehicle, imported by Greenwich Meridian Logistics[Read More…]
Gujarat is all set to face one of the toughest fights in the decades in this assembly election scheduled on December 9 and 14. While opinion polls conducted by different channels have anticipated BJP’s victory, it didn’t neglect the Congress’ huge influence that has been increasing by every passing day.[Read More…]
Even as the DCW said a woman was beaten up and paraded naked here on Thursday after she helped in a raid in north Delhi against illegal sale of liquor, police denied it and said two women have been arrested for physical assault. Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati[Read More…]
The proposed Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill is designed to protect the rights of depositors, the government said on Thursday. The bill, which seeks to deal with the insolvency of financial service providers, had been tabled in August in the Lok Sabha and has currently been referred to[Read More…]
A Congress leader from western Uttar Pradesh on Thursday alleged that he wanted to contest the presidential election in the party against Vice President Rahul Gandhi but was prevented from doing so. Talking to reporters, Ayub Ali said that he had gone to meet the Congress‘ Central Election Authority chairman[Read More…]
Even as the Meghalaya assembly was scheduled to begin on Friday its last session ahead of the February-March 2018 elections, an opposition MLA on Thursday withdrew his notice to move a resolution for Speaker Abu Taher Mondal’s removal. The three-day session will include two days dedicated to government business and[Read More…]
Contradicting what Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been saying on the Narmada issue, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said that while he was heading the UPA government at the Centre, Modi who was Gujarat Chief Minister never discussed the Narmada issue with him whenever they met. He also[Read More…]
Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Thursday apologised for using the word “neech” (low) for Prime Minister Narendra Modi but maintained that he had not referred to him as “low-born”. “I never meant low-born. There is a difference in the English language between words ‘low’ and ‘’low-born’. But in[Read More…]
As many as 36 out of the 61 buildings of the University of Mumbai at its Kalina Campus are in regular use without the mandatory “Occupation Certificate” (OC) issued by the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation, rendering them technically illegal, an RTI reply has revealed. The Kalina Campus at Santacruz east, close[Read More…]
Veteran politician Sharad Yadav on Thursday said there was pressure from “all sides” to disqualify him from the Rajya Sabha, and that he knew it was a foregone conclusion. “I knew this (disqualification) is going to happen. Some media persons also wrote about it. I had mentally prepared myself for[Read More…]
Paving the way for a trial, a court here on Thursday framed charges against 11 former MPs in connection with the 2005 cash-for-query case. Delhi Police has chargesheeted the 11 — Chhatarpal Singh Lodha (BJP), Anna Saheb M.K. Patil (BJP), Pradeep Gandhi (BJP), Suresh Chandel (BJP), Chandra Pratap Singh (BJP),[Read More…]
A man was arrested in Rajasthan on Thursday for thrashing a person before burning him alive to “save a girl from ‘love jihad’”, officials said. The accused, Shambunath Raigar, also recorded the horrific act which was uploaded on the social media. The incident took place in Rajasthan’s Rajsamand district and[Read More…]
United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday formally recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in the face of international criticism while asserting that he was “not taking a position of any final status” of the ancient city that is also claimed by Palestine. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, speaking[Read More…]
