Soon after reports of controversial Indian cricket team’s dressing room talks were leaked to former BCCI president Anurag Thakur, the Apex court-appointed Committee of Administrators sacked the board media manager on Monday. The decision was taken on February 1st that all the officials appointed by Thakur and ex-secretary Ajay Shirke[Read More…]
Political tensions have no sign of relief in Punjab. Worries escalate in Punjab’s Majitha constituency on Monday soon after the dispute erupted between supporters of the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal and Congress. Police reinforcements were rushed to Mian Pandher village in Amritsar district, 275 km from Chandigarh, following the clashes.[Read More…]
The Supreme Court on Monday said that it would pronounce its verdict in the corruption case against former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa within a week. AIADMK general secretary Sasikala Natarajan is also a co-accused in the case. Jayalalithaa was booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act in 1996[Read More…]
Just after AIADMK general secretary V.K. Sasikala on Sunday was elected as the Leader of the Legislature party by the MLAs paving the way for her swearing in as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, the entire social media gets flooded with the reactions. Sasikala Natarajan was unanimously elected as the[Read More…]
A fierce gun battle took place between police and criminals near Nehru Place metro station in south Delhi on Monday morning following a dramatic chase. As per a report in TOI, the sources said that about 13 rounds were fired in the encounter. Notably, two policemen were injured. However, police[Read More…]
Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that Pakistan must refrain from demanding a referendum in Jammu & Kashmir, while addressing a public rally in Haridwar. “If at all a referendum is required, it is needed in Pakistan, where people should be asked whether they want to continue in[Read More…]
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi takes a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing a joint election meeting along with chief minister Akhilesh Yadav at GIC (Government Inter College) ground here on Sunday. Just as PM Modi has stopped taking the name of Bihar after his party’s defeat in[Read More…]
A 240-KM railway line connecting two major islands, with bridges and stations along the coast of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, is to be launched soon. It will be part of rail route connecting Port Blair with Diglipur on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands — a first in the country that[Read More…]
A majority of people who had responded to its questionnaire on a uniform civil code have opposed spontaneous triple talaq, Law Commission chairperson Justice B S Chauhan has said. The majority includes a couple of Muslim organisations too. The commission has received 40,000 responses since its issue in October 2016. Chauhan[Read More…]
About 30 girl students were allegedly brutally beaten up by their teacher on Friday out of which one had to be hospitalized. The incident took place at a school in Munnanur village of Amrabad mandal in Telangana’s Nagarkurnool district. The accused, Kalyani, an English teacher in Kasturba Ashram School in the[Read More…]
India defeated Malaysia by a score of 2-0 in the boy’s team event at the Asian Junior Squash championship on Sunday. This is their second victory, once back in 2011 defeating Pakistan in Colombo. India’s No. 1 player Velavan Senthilkumar defeated second seed Malaysia’s Ong Sai Hun in quick time. Then[Read More…]
Sasikala Natarajan was unanimously elected as the Legislative Party leader of the AIADMK on Sunday. She was elected in an AIADMK party meeting in Chennai. As predicted, Sasikala can now replace O Panneerselvam as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu however it was Panneerselvam who suggested the name of VKSasikala[Read More…]
More than ₹6 lakh in cash which allegedly belongs to an RLD MLA, was seized from a vehicle on Delhi-Dehradun national highway on Sunday, Police confirmed. The cash allegedly belonged to RLD MLA from Khatoli, Kartar Singh, and was being sent to Dehradun for the February 15 Assembly elections, Police[Read More…]
BJP government’s demonetisation scheme of scrapping high-value currency notes in order to solve the problem of black money in India had a critical impact on the majority of the population in the country, said former Union minister P Chidambaram. Addressing a discussion on ‘Demonetisation scheme’, he claimed that the ban on high-value currency[Read More…]
In a Jallikattu event held at Avanipuram in the district amid high-security today, 36 participants were injured. About 900 bulls were used in the event. All the injured were being treated at the medical camp put up near the venue, police said. According to reports, there were 1200 people and[Read More…]