New Delhi/IBNS: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday asked enforcement agencies to spike up their vigil as smugglers, involved in drug trafficking are sending 'mountains' of illegal drugs into the country.
New Delhi/IBNS: The Bharatiya Janata Party is all set to comfortably win the Gujarat polls while it's going to be a tight fight between the saffron party and Congress in Himachal Pradesh, the exit polls predicted on Monday.
New Delhi: The Congress on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of violating the model code of conduct (MCC) while enroute to a polling station to exercise his franchise in the final phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections, in Ahmedabad.
New Delhi: President of India Droupadi Murmu has approved introduction of a new design for the President’s Standard and Colour and Indian Navy Crest for the Indian Navy, which were unveiled at Visakhapatnam on Navy Day on Sunday.
In a statement released on Umar Media, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s (TTP’s) official web site on November 28, 2022, Mufti Muzahim, the TTP’s ‘Minister of Defence’ announced an end to the seven months-long ceasefire. Muzahim “ordered” TTP forces throughout Pakistan “to launch attacks anywhere in the country” in response to Pakistani military operations. The outfit claimed that it chose to end the ceasefire after “the army and intelligence agencies continue to raid and attack” its forces. “And now our revenge attacks will continue in the whole country,” the TTP statement concluded.
On November 24, 2022, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres shot dead a 48-year-old man, identified as Lalbati Majhi, in Panchakul village under Sadar Police Station limits in Bhawanipatna in the Kalahandi District. According to reports, while Lalbati was sleeping in his house, he was forcibly taken away by Maoists and killed near the Katlang village. Some posters were left behind at the spot, in which the Maoists claimed that Lalbati was punished since he was working as a ‘Police informer’. They also warned that others in the area who were working as Police informers would be punished soon.
New Delhi: The first round of Foreign Office Consultations (FoC) between India and Papua New Guinea (PNG) was held on Dec 5 in Port Moresby.
Bengaluru: Lucky Ali, son of famous comedian Mehmood, has complained to Karnataka DGP Praveen Sood that his property has been encroached upon by the land mafia in collusion with an IAS officer.
New Delhi/UNI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday expressed gratitude and thanked global leaders for their support towards India's G20 presidency.
New Delhi/UNI: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a PIL seeking determination of the age of the Taj Mahal and removing "wrong facts" about its construction from all text books of the Mughal era monument defined as one of wonders of the world.
Srinagar/UNI: Amid cold weather, polling got underway on Monday morning for two District Development Council (DDC) constituencies of Bandipora and Kupwara districts of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.
Patna/UNI: Polling began amid tight security arrangements at 7 am for the by-election in Kurhani assembly seat of Bihar where 3.11 lakhs electorate will be exercising their franchise to decide the fate of 13 candidates.
Bhubaneswar/UNI: Polling began peacefully at 7 am for the by-election to Padampur Assembly seat in Odisha amid tight security.
Ahmedabad: PM Narendra Modi on Monday cast his vote in the second phase of the ongoing Assembly polls in Gujarat.
Gandhinagar: Gujarat is voting in the second phase of the Assembly polling as fates of several key leaders including, CM Bhupendra Patel (Ghatlodia), Patidar leader Hardik Patel (Viramgam), will be decided on Monday.
New Delhi: The Indian Civil Aviation Ministry has said the country has touched its highest ever rank on the ICAO aviation safety ranking list.
Srinagar: Abdul Ahad Wani from Jammu and Kashmir Srinagar district has created magic by growing Nadru or lotus stems in a field instead of lakes.
Ratlam: At least five persons died and approximately a dozen were injured – some of them critically – when an Indore-Ratlam truck veered out of control, after a tyre burst on Sunday.
Srinagar: Hearing and speech-impaired children in Jammu and Kashmir are facing trouble as the only school for them in the Valley is facing a funding crisis, media reports said on Sunday.
Jammu: Security forces on Sunday recovered cache of arms and ammunition from a terrorist hideout busted in Nawapachi area of Kishtwar district in Jammu and Kashmir.
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu witnessed the operational demonstration by the Indian Navy at Visakhapatnam on Sunday on the occasion of Navy Day.
The Jammu and Kashmir government has empowered more than 30,000 youth, including more than 12,000 girls, by helping in developing various employability skills among them in the 2021-2022 period, media reports said.
New Delhi: The Indian Navy has assured the government that it will become Aatm Nirbhar by 2047, Admiral R Hari Kumar said here during his annual interaction with the media on Saturday ahead of Navy Day.
Pulwama: Jammu and Kashmir government is taking several steps to ensure women in rural and urban areas are able to live a better life by becoming self-employed.
New Delhi: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Jitendra Singh will lead the official Indian delegation to United Arab Emirates (UAE) at the “Abu Dhabi Space Debate”, a 2-day international meet beginning on Monday.
Siaha: The Assam Rifles recovered a huge amount of foreign currency and apprehended two persons from Mizoram's Siaha district.
Aizawl: To address the severe labor shortages in Japan by accepting foreign human resources with specific expertise and skill, India and Japan signed a Memorandum of Cooperation in January 2021 for the implementation of ‘Specified Skilled Workers’ between the two countries.
San Francisco/IBNS: Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai was awarded the Padma Bhushan - India’s third-highest civilian award - for 2022 in the Trade and Industry category on Friday.
New Delhi: A nurse in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad was Sunday arrested after a 13-year-old girl revealed to the police that her mother killed her father.
New Delhi: Polling is underway for the 250 wards of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. Voting started at 8 am on Sunday and will continue till 5.30 pm.
