Kolkata/UNI: Hours after alighting from a long-distance train on Monday morning from violence-riddled Cooch Behar, West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose rushed to remote Basanti in South 24 Parganas to meet the survivors of a TMC supporter, who was murdered in clashes related to three-tier July 8 Panchayat election.
Jammu/UNI: The fourth batch of 4,758 Shri Amarnath Yatra pilgrims on Monday amid the chants of 'Bam Bam Bhole' left for the cave shrine from Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas base camp here.
Phagwara/UNI: Three devotees, including a woman from Dera Radha Swami Satsang, were killed and two others sustained serious injuries when a speeding Swift car hit them near the Dera in Village Bandhian, near Banga, the police sources said on Monday.
New Delhi/UNI: Senior BJP leader BS Yediyurappa said Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya and party general secretary Vinod Tawade will visit Bengaluru as central observers for the election of the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the state assembly.
Gerukamukh/Assam: The Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project (SLHEP) is nearing completion, with power generation slated to begin by the end of the 2023-24 financial year, revealed the project developer NHPC.
Mumbai/IBNS: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Monday denied any "problem in the family" after his nephew Ajit Pawar led a mutiny within the outfit and joined the Shinde government with eight other MLAs.
New Delhi/UNI: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law, and Justice will hold a meeting on the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) here on Monday.
Mumbai: Reacting to sudden political developments of Sunday in the state, Maharashtra NCP president and former state minister Jayant Patil said that the party has extended its full support to party supremo Sharad Pawar.
Mumbai: In a sudden political development in Maharashtra, senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar - the nephew of party chief Sharad Pawar - on Sunday split the legislative party and joined the state's NDA ministry with eight other MLAs.
Male: The Maldives government has condemned the opposition's action of staging an anti-India demonstration in Maldives.
Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Sunday asserted that her party was not against the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), instead it was against the modalities of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its government in implementing it, as it should not be forced on the people of the country.
New Delhi: Vice-President of IndiaJagdeep Dhankhar will visit Assam on July 4, 2023 where he will be the Chief Guest at the 25th Convocation of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati.
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said on Sunday that Ajit Pawar, who has joined his ministry as Deputy Chief Minister, has always done politics of development.
Mumbai: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) split in Maharashtra, as several of its top leaders including Ajit Pawar joined the Eknath Shinde ministry on Sunday.
Farrukhabad: A businessman killed his son, injured his wife and daughter with a sharp-edged weapon and later committed suicide allegedly due to financial crisis in Jahanganj area of Farrukhabad district here in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, police sources said here.
Mumbai: The Maharashtrian political scenario witnessed yet another major change on Sunday when NCP leader Ajit Pawar took oath as the Deputy CM of the state.
Imphal/IBNS/UNI: Three people were shot dead by armed miscreants in Manipur's Bishnupur district on Sunday, police said.
Colombo/IBNS/UNI: Sri Lanka's Parliament said it appointed a parliamentary select committee to control and eradicate the rapidly spreading drug menace in the country.
Agartala's College Tilla facility, a government-owned fish production center, is spearheading scientific breeding of freshwater prawns to meet the high demand in Tripura's local market.
Guwahati/IBNS: Assam Chief Minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, unveiled a series of urban development projects in Tezpur on Friday.
Shillong, July 1 (UNI) Two sniffer dogs Hammer (Labrador) and Safi (Cocker Spaniel), part of Meghalaya police’s K9 unit, on Saturday helped the police to retrieve heroin worth Rs. 5 crore from a farm house in Ri-Bhoi district.
Agartala, July 1 (UNI) The opposition CPI-M and Congress blamed the collective failure on the part of management and the administration in the chariot tragedy on June 28 last at Kumarghat in Unokoti district of North Tripura, in which as many as seven people, including three children, were killed and at least 20 injured.
New Delhi/UNI/IBNS: The Supreme Court on Saturday referred to the CJI for the constitution of a larger (3-judge) bench to hear the plea of activist Teesta Setalvad, after Gujarat HC rejected her bail plea in a case of fabrication of documents related to 2002 post-Godhra riot cases.
New Delhi/UNI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed its first supplementary chargesheet against nine persons in the ISIS conspiracy case of Shivamogga district in Karnataka.
New Delhi/UNI: Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah on Saturday said the Central government has tried to bring equality in cooperative law under the constitutional framework without interfering with the rights of the states and the Centre.
Shahdol (MP), July 1 (UNI) Raining fire on opposition parties for their "anti-nationalism, dynasticism and corruption", Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday alleged that the former simply cannot guarantee liberation from terrorism and so-called dishonesty.
Saharanpur: Four youths were arrested by a team of Saharanpur police from Ambala in Haryana in connection with the attack on Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad, police sources said here on Saturday.
Hardoi: A class eighth student was killed by slitting her throat with a sharp-edged weapon and later her body was thrown in the field in Pachdeora area of Hardoi district here in Uttar Pradesh, police sources said here on Saturday.
Mumbai: A suspected tyre burst may have caused the ghastly accident on the Nagpur-Mumbai Expressway that claimed the lives of 26 passengers, including three children, officials said here on Saturday.
Thiruvananthapuram: The demand by women medicos of Thiruvananthapuram Medical College, seeking permission to wear surgical hoods and long-sleeve scrubs inside the operation theatre as a substitute for their ‘hijab’, is absurd and should not be considered at all as patient safety and sterile protocols in operation theatres (OT) cannot be compromised, according to Dr Naresh Purohit, Executive Member Federation of Hospital Administrators, here on Saturday.
