Mumbai, 28/2: Walt Disney Co and Reliance Industries on Wednesday announced signing of binding pacts to merge their media operations in India to create a Rs 70,000 crore behemoth. Reliance and its affiliates will hold 63.16 per cent in the combined entity while Disney will hold the remaining 36.84 per cent, the companies said in…
Kolkata, 28/2:West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that the Khalistani jibe at a Sikh IPS officer in the state showed the ‘real communal face’ of the BJP. When they see a Sikh IPS officer wearing pagdi (turban), they call him Khalistani. This is their real communal face,” she said, while addressing an…
Shimla,28/2: While Jairam Thakur has said that Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has tendered his resignation, the latter was quoted by news agency ANI as saying that, “Neither anyone asked for my resignation nor I have presented my resignation.We will prove the majority. We will win, the people of Himachal will win.”
Bhubaneswar, 28/2: In a major development, Microsoft co-founder & philanthropist Bill Gates was briefed by DC Anu Garg & Principal Secy of UD Dept G Mathi Vathanan on the working of Jaga Mission & Mukta scheme.
New Delhi, ,27/2: The rules for the implementation of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA) for fast-tracking citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan are likely to be issued before the Model Code of Conduct for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections comes into effect. The Model Code of Conduct (MCC) gets…
Shimla, 27/2: Congress is staring at losing its government in Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday after disgruntled MLAs switched sides to vote for BJP candidate Harsh Mahajan against party candidate Abhishek Singhvi in the Rajya Sabha election and eventually winning on a draw of lots. After the polling, Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu alleged that six…
Bhubaneswar, 27/2: Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik today inaugurated Mission Shakti Bazar here in the city. Opening the MSB, the CM said that it will be a strong platform to support sustainable livelihoods for women in rural and semi urban areas of the state. It has been developed under 5T initiative to promote…
UP, ,27/2:Amid concerns over cross-voting and the party chief whip quitting while polling was underway in the Rajya Sabha elections, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav Tuesday warned action will be taken against such MLAs. The SP’s chief whip in state Assembly Manoj Pandey quit the party on Tuesday, the jolt coming a day after he…
Chandigarh, 27/2: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday named three sitting MLAs and two former MPs to fight the Lok Sabha elections from four seats in Delhi and one in Haryana, where the party has entered into an alliance with the Congress. The party named sitting MLAs Somnath Bharti (New Delhi), Sahiram Pahalwan (South…
New Delhi, 27/2: Group Captains Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair, Ajit Krishnan and Angad Pratap and Wing Commander Shubhanshu Shukla are the four astronauts selected for Gaganyaan, the maiden space mission of India. Prime Minister Narendran Modi bestowed ‘astronaut wings’ to the four at a function at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday. He also…
