Baranagar, 4/2: Baranagar TMC MLA Tapas Roy tendered his resignation from the post of MLA as well as from the party on Monday. Earlier in the day, Roy, the TMC deputy chief whip in the assembly, slammed the party leadership for allegedly not standing by him when his residence was raided by the Enforcement Directorate…
New Delhi, 4/3: The Supreme Court on Monday overruled the 1998 judgement of majority in P V Narasimha Rao case granting immunity to MPs from prosecution for bribery for voting in Parliament for wider ramifications and probity in public life. “We hold that bribery is not protected by Parliamentary privileges,” seven-judge bench led by Chief…
New Delhi, 4/3:The probe into the blast at Rameshwaram Cafe in Bengaluru has been handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), sources said on Monday. At least nine people were injured when a blast took place at Rameshwaram Cafe in Brookfield in East Bengaluru on March 1.
New Delhi, 3/3: A day after he was dropped from the Chandni Chowks seat to make way for trade union leader Praveen Khandelwal, former union minister Harsh Vardhan said that his clinic now awaits him. A doctor by profession, the former health minister said that he jumped into the electoral fray only at the insistence…
Bhubaneswar,3/3:As per the direction of Chief Minister Sh. Naveen Patnaik, Chairman 5T and Nabin Odisha Sh. Kartik Pandian visited Kalahandi, Balngir and Bargarh district today. He attended the Nua-O Scholarship Distribution Programme at Dharmagarh in Kalahandi, Titilagarh in Balangir and in Bargarh District where he interacted with the students from the respective districts. …
Kolkata, 3/3: A day after he was fielded by the BJP from Asansol, Bhojpuri singer Pawan Singh asked the party leadership to recuse him from contesting this term. The singer, who had Bhojpuri hits like Lollipop Lagelu which had more than 220 million hits on YouTube, faced a severe backlash from leaders of the Trinamool…
Bhopal, 3/3: Only those greedy for power, wealth and land have abandoned the Congress, the party’s senior leader and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh said on Sunday. His comments came a day after the name of his former colleague Jyotiraditya Scindia was announced in the BJP’s first list of Lok Sabha candidates. Scindia, who shifted…
Patna, 3/3: The opposition bloc I.N.D.I.A. virtually sounded the bugle for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls on Sunday when top leaders, including Rahul Gandhi of the Congress, converged in the Bihar capital for a mammoth rally. Gandhi, who had flown down from Madhya Pradesh, taking a break from his ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’, spoke before…
New Delhi, 3/3:The Congress on Sunday attacked the Centre over the Agnipath scheme, alleging that it has “compromised” national security and “severely disrupted” the armed forces’ recruitment processes in India. The Congress’ attack came after party leader Rahul Gandhi had an interaction with ex-servicemen, potential Agniveer recruits and the youth whose regular recruitment into the…
Khordha, 3/3:On Saturday, senior IPS officer Banoth Jugal Kishore Kumar took charge as the new SP of Khordha district. He was previously served as Kendrapara SP.This senior officer of 2011 batch Odisha cadre was promoted as SSP in December last year. However, when asked by our correspondent what would be the priority in the…
