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Mumbai: Amid the continuing political crisis in Maharashtra due to revolt in the Shiv Sena MLAs, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has called a meeting of the party’s national executive committee on Saturday at 1 pm. The meeting will be held in Shiv Sena Bhavan which the Chief Minister will join virtually. Earlier on Friday, […]
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New Delhi: Opposition Presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha is set to file his nomination papers for Presidential poll on Monday but fissures seem to be appearing in opposition camp with the JMM inclining towards NDA nominee Draupadi Murmu, sources said. The development comes after JDS leader H.D. Devegowda praised the NDA candidate and termed her “suitable” […]
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New Delhi: Years after denying his presence and even claiming he was dead, Pakistan has reportedly arrested Sajid Mir, a top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative and the main handler of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. Mir, involved in the November 2008 siege — when a team of 10 men carried out coordinated attacks on multiple targets in […]
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New Delhi: Is this the end game for Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu in politics with his term as Rajya Sabha Chairman coming to an end in August? A seasoned politician and a veteran BJP leader, Naidu apparently is unhappy with the way he was ‘dumped’ by the saffron party and denied an opportunity to get […]
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Centre to reopen 20 mines by leasing them out to pvt players
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Mumbai: Digging in his heels, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday expressed determination to fight the political crisis gripping his government and took on Cabinet Minister Eknath Shinde, saying the rebel leader’s son is a Lok Sabha MP and should his son Aaditya Thackeray not also grow politically as both sides showed no signs […]
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Hyderabad: While the Dewan Housing Finance Corporation (DHFL) has been accused of committing India’s biggest banking fraud of Rs 34,615 crore, its promoters have been busy donating huge amounts to the BJP through the company as well as its associated companies. As per official records, the company donated more than Rs 27.5 crore to the […]
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Wayanad: A protest march of the SFI, the students wing of ruling CPI(M), against Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s office here on Friday turned violent as a group of protestors allegedly entered the Lok Sabha member’s office and vandalised it, prompting Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to strongly condemn the incident and warned stern action against the […]
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Mumbai: Police authorities in Maharashtra have issued an alert across the state as Shiv Sena supporters are likely to stage angry protests following senior leader and minister Eknath Shinde’s rebellion, an official said on Friday. A couple of incidents of Sena workers targeting the hoardings or boards featuring rebel MLAs who are with Shinde have […]
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Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday announced support to NDA presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu before the latter filed the nomination on the day. Jagan believes that supporting tribal woman to become first citizen of the country falls in line with the emphasis he has always given to the representation of […]
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Patna: At a time Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray is striving to save his government, a BJP leader in Bihar has said if the CM, his son Aditya Thackeray and Sanjay Raut are made to undergo narco tests, mystery shrouding the deaths of slain actor Sushant Singh Rajput and his former manager Disha Salian will […]
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Hyderabad: The Centre has appointed Tapan Kumar Deka as the Chief of Intelligence Bureau on Friday. Deka, a senior IPS officer will be succeeding Arvind Kumar, whose extended tenure ends on June 30. Deka, was handling the operations wing of the IB and his tenure will be for two years, an order issued by the […]
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Balasore: India on Friday successfully test-fired the Vertical Launch Short Range Surface to Air Missile (VL-SRSAM) from an Indian Naval Ship (INS) off the coast of Chandipur in Odisha. “Vertical Launch Short Range Surface to Air Missile (VL-SRSAM) is successfully flight tested today by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Navy. The launch […]
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday confirmed the death sentence given to a man for the cold blooded murder and brutal rape of a seven-and-a-half-year-old mentally and physically challenged girl. The apex court upheld the Rajasthan High Court’s May 29, 2015 order, which sentenced the convict to death. A three-judge bench of Justices A.M. […]
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New Delhi: Digital disease management solutions may help tackle the rising populations of patients suffering from chronic diseases in India, according to a report on Friday. In terms of prevalence, hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease are the three largest chronic conditions, with close to 242 million people suffering from hypertension, 75 million people suffering from diabetes, […]
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New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has permanently restrained two pharmaceutical manufacturers from using the trademark ‘LOOZOUT’ in their products, which is deceptively similar to the registered trademark ‘LOOZ’. A single bench of Justice Jyoti Singh, while dealing with the suit moved by Intas Pharmaceuticals, also imposed a cost of Rs two lakh to the […]
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Belagavi: Human – canine bond has been treasured and admired all over the world. Currently, a Karnataka man is being praised for his selfless love towards his pet dog, Krish. A man threw an extravagant #birthdayparty for his #petdog by cutting a 100 kg cake and feeding 4000 people with veg & non veg food […]
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Kolkata: A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Friday, turned down Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF)’s plea for postponing the elections for the new board of Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA). While passing the order, the single-judge bench of Justice Moushumi Bhattacharya observed that at this point of time the court does not find […]
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New Delhi: The BJP-led NDA’s nominee Droupadi Murmu on Friday filed her nomination papers for the July 18 presidential election, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi handing over the set of papers to Returning Officer P C Mody. Murmu was also accompanied by union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari and Piyush Goyal, BJP president […]
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Unnao: In a bizarre incident where a woman was bitten by a snake in her house, her husband caught the reptile and put it in a bottle. He took the woman to the hospital, along with the snake in the bottle. The woman has been admitted to the district hospital where she is being treated. When […]
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New Delhi: Droupadi Murmu, the first woman tribal leader to file her nomination for the top constitutional post of the country, is a seasoned politician from Odisha coupled with an extensive background in the field of academics reflects that she will uplift the tribal sections of the country. Droupadi Murmu, who was declared BJP-led NDA’s […]
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the plea filed by Zakia Jafri, widow of former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, challenging the clean chit given by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) to then Chief Minister Narendra Modi and several others in 2002 Gujarat riots. A bench headed by Justices AM Khanwilkar said that it […]
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Mumbai: As the Maharashtra political crisis continued for the fourth day, the rebel group led by Minister Eknath Shinde has submitted a list of his 37 MLAs to Deputy Speaker of Legislative Assembly Narhari Zirwal. The list, submitted late on Thursday, has also attached two resolutions stating — Shinde continues to be the chief of […]
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Mumbai: Amid the ongoing political crisis in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Friday alleged that Union Minister is threatening Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar. “Threats are being given to Sharad Pawar ji by a Central minister. Do such threats have the support of Modi Ji and Amit Shah Ji?” said Raut. […]
