Mumbai, 29/12: In what appears to be a snub to the BJP, Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister and NCP president Ajit Pawar has nominated three members of the family of senior party leader and former minister Nawab Malik for contesting the elections to the BMC. Pawar had appointed Malik as the chairman of NCP’s election management…
Visakhapatnam,29/12: A man was killed after two compartments of the Tatanagar-Ernakulam Express caught fire at Yalamanchili, about 66 km from here, a senior police official said on Monday. The official said they received information about the fire at 12:45 am. The official told reporters that there were 82 passengers in one of the affected coaches…
Thiruvananthapuram, 28/12: An all-round India rode on Smriti Mandhana (80) and Shafali Verma’s (79) record partnership followed by spinner Vaishnavi Sharma’s impressive 2/24 to beat Sri Lanka by 30 runs in the fourth women’s T20I and take a 4-0 lead in the 5 match series. After Mandhana and Shafali set the platform for India’s highest…
Srinagar, 28/12: National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah’s defence of the house arrest of party MP Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi and other leaders on Sunday has brought simmering dissent within the ruling NC into the open, underlining a growing confrontation between the Abdullahs and one of the party’s most vocal parliamentarians.
Patna, 28/12: Close on the heels of Bihar Judicial Services’ Association (BJSA) seeking an apology from Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sinha, who is also the Revenue and Land Reforms Minister in the Nitish Kumar Cabinet, for “deeply disturbing remarks against the Deputy CM, who is a senior BJP leader. These officers, who are members…
Ahmedabad, 28/12: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said India has recorded a 97 per cent reduction in malaria cases and the country will be free of the disease in a “short time”. He was addressing the ‘All India Medical Conference – IMA NATCON 2025’ of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) in Shela here.
New Delhi, 28/12: The air quality in the national capital was in the “very poor” category on Sunday morning with an overall Air Quality Index reading of 392, according to the Central Pollution Control Board. Data from the Central Pollution Control Board’s Sameer app showed that 19 monitoring stations in the city reported air quality…
Thiruvananthapuram, 28/12:V K Prasanth, MLA from the Vattiyoorkavu constituency in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday, December 28, has alleged that he was asked by BJP councillor R Sreelekha to vacate his office after the BJP took over the reins of the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation
New Delhi, 27/13: Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Saturday created a flutter just ahead of a Congress Working Committee meeting by praising RSS-BJP’s system of promoting grassroot workers to leadership by citing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s case even as he told his party leadership the perils of “over centralisation” that is harming the organisation….
Patna, 27/12: Janshakti Janta Dal (JJD) chief Tej Pratap Yadav has filed a police complaint, alleging that his party’s expelled national spokesperson Santosh Renu Yadav has threatened to kill him. The former Bihar minister, who lost the election from Mahua assembly seat in this year’s assembly elections, has also written to Deputy Chief Minister and…
