Kolkata, 20/10: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday targeted her guns on the BJP-led Central government for allegedly depriving former Indian cricket skipper Sourav Ganguly by not nominating him for the ICC chairman’s post, terming it an act of “shameless political vendetta”. Banerjee, who said she would have spoken out on…
London,20/10: Britain’s third female Prime Minister, Liz Truss, is out of office on Thursday after one of the shortest tenures at 10 Downing Street in London and without a cherished India-UK free trade agreement (FTA) under her belt as a Brexit prize. Truss, who until Wednesday insisted in Parliament that she was a…
Deoghar, 20/10: Today Sri Bijayananda Sahu, Jr. Engineer, Tileibani Block, Dist-Deogarh has been apprehended by Odisha Vigilance while demanding and accepting bribe of Rs.8000/- from a Complainant (Contractor) for facilitating release of the final bill of the work executed by him. The entire bribe amount of Rs.8000/- has been recovered from the accused Sri Sahu…
New Delhi, 20/10: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s office said on Thursday he would launch a drive this weekend to give government jobs to 10 lakh people, starting with 75,000 immediate appointments, as he tries to tackle criticism of widespread unemployment. Joblessness in the country of 140 crore people has stayed around 7 per…
New Delhi, 20/10: The BJP on Thursday accused the Congress of rigging its presidential polls to make Mallikarjun Kharge win so that he can be remote controlled by the Gandhi family. The saffron party, which has been attacking Kharge even before he was elected the grand-old party’s president, is now terming him to…
New Delhi,20/10: Sports minister Anurag Thakur on Thursday said the home ministry will take a call on Indian cricket team’s travel to Pakistan for the Asia Cup next year since the players’ security is an important matter. Thakur though is expecting that Pakistan team will come to India to compete in the 50-over…
New Delhi, 20/10: The rupee depreciated 6 paise to a record low of 83.06 against the US dollar in opening trade on Thursday due to a stronger greenback overseas and unrelenting foreign fund outflows. Besides, a sell-off in domestic equities and risk-averse sentiments weighed on the local unit, forex traders said. At…
Beijing, 20/10: China on Wednesday put a hold on a proposal by India and the US at the United Nations to blacklist Pakistan-based militant Hafiz Talah Saeed, the son of Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed, in the second such move within two days. It is learnt that China placed the hold on the proposal to add…
New Delhi, 20/10: The Delhi Police’s Special Cell has nabbed gangster Deepak Tinu, who is an accused in singer Sidhu Moosewala’s murder and escaped from Punjab police custody on October 1, from Rajasthan’s Alwar, officials said. Special Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) HGS Dhaliwal said Tinu kept changing his hideout after fleeing from…
