Manipur, 26/11: Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Sunday said his government was holding ‘peace talks’ with an Imphal Valley-based insurgent group. Speaking to PTI-Video, Singh said the talks were at an advanced stage, even though he stayed away from naming the underground organisation. This was for the first time that there was an…
Uttarakhand, 26/11: A plasma cutter was flown in from Hyderabad on Sunday to cut and remove parts of the auger machine stuck in the rubble inside the Silkyara tunnel where 41 labourers have been stranded for the last 14 days.A complete disengagement of the machine is necessary for the officials to resume the rescue work…
Gaza, 26/11: Hamas released a second group of Israeli and foreign hostages Saturday night in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners, Israeli authorities said Sunday morning, after an hour long delay raised fears that a fragile truce in the Gaza Strip could collapse all together. Qatar, which helped broker the deal alongside Egypt, said…
Hyderabad, 26/11: With the electioneering in four-poll bound states ending, the Congress is planning a campaign blitzkrieg in Telangana ahead of the November 30 polling. The party’s top guns, including Sonia Gandhi are all set to launch an offensive believing that they are at a sniffing distance of unseating the ruling BRS. Top campaigners Rahul…
Kochi, 25/11: Four students of Cochin University of Science and Technology were killed and around 64 students were injured in a stampede during a tech fest at Kochi on Saturday. The stampede took place around 7.30 pm during a music event as part of the ongoing tech fest. According to local sources, the stampede took…
New Delhi, 25/11: In further trouble for Mahua Moitra, the CBI has registered a preliminary enquiry against the Trinamool Congress MP in connection with allegations of “quid pro quo” for raising questions in Parliament. Officials said the action came on the directions of Lokpal, which had earlier forwarded the matter to the agency following a…
New Delhi, 25/11: A court here on Saturday sentenced four convicts to life imprisonment for killing TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan in 2008 while the fifth convict was sent to three years in jail. While sentencing Ravi Kapoor, Amit Shukla, Baljeet Malik and Ajay Kumar to life imprisonment, the court of Additional Sessions Judge Ravindra Kumar…
New Delhi, 25/11: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday undertook a sortie on the Tejas aircraft and said the experience has bolstered his confidence in the country’s indigenous capabilities. Taking to social media platform X, the PM said, “Successfully completed a sortie on the Tejas,”
New Delhi, 25/12: India will soon commercially produce medicines for 13 “rare diseases” substantially bringing down the treatment cost for such illnesses – sometimes 90-100 times less – as standard therapies based largely on imported medicines cost a few crores per year. In the first phase, four such medicines have received the marketing approval while…
Jodhpur, 25/11: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday said there is no anti-incumbency against the Congress and the party will form the government in the state again. There seems to be an undercurrent. Looks like the (Congress) government will be repeated,” he said. Gehlot told PTI in Jodhpur that the Congress focused its campaign…
