New Delhi, 10/11: Nafis Ansari, a school principal who is Muslim, was enlisted this year by the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as a “Modi Mitr”, or friend of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The resident of the central state of Madhya Pradesh promotes the party to neighbours and relatives at events such…
New Delhi, 9/11: An appeal has been filed against the death sentence handed down to eight former Indian Navy personnel by a Qatari court last month, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Thursday MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said the Indian embassy in Doha received another consular access to the detained Indians on Tuesday…
Bengaluru, 9/11: New Zealand returned to winning ways at the World Cup following a four-match slump as they defeated Sri Lanka by five wickets at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Thursday and all but secured their place in the semi-finals. Opening batsmen Devon Conway (45) and Rachin Ravindra (42) got fourth-placed New Zealand’s chase of…
Bangalore, 9/11: Veteran BJP leader B S Yediyurappa on Thursday said his party will hold a three-day protest in the city, probably by the end of this month, condemning the ‘policies’ of the Congress government in Karnataka and its style of functioning. The former chief minister also claimed that none of the contractors are coming…
Patna, 9/11: The Bihar assembly on Thursday approved a hike in quotas for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Extremely Backward Classes and Other Backward Classes from the existing 50 per cent to 65 per cent. Bills providing for the same in educational institutions and government jobs, drafted in the backdrop of a comprehensive caste survey conducted…
New Delhi, 9/11: Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate for questioning in connection with its probe into the alleged school jobs scam in West Bengal, officials said. Banerjee, the party’s national general secretary, reached the ED office here around 11.10 AM, they said. The Diamond Harbour MP was summoned…
Bhubaneswar, 9/11: Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik today said that Odisha is a pioneer in designing a people centric millet mission with focus on livelihoods and nutrition of our tribal communities. He said this while inaugurating International Convention on Millets in Bhubaneswar. The CM inaugurated the convention by planting a sapling. The convention aims at…
Kolkata, 9/11: Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, a vocal Modi critic, is on the threshold of being expelled from Lok Sabha with a Parliamentary panel all set to recommend her ouster for “unethical conduct” by impacting national security, following a probe into ‘cash for query” . The Ethics Committee of Lok Sabha headed by BJP…
Imphal, 9/11: The Manipur government has lifted the mobile internet ban in four hill district headquarters which have not been affected by ethnic strife, officials said on Thursday. The internet ban was withdrawn on a trial basis in the district headquarters of Ukhrul, Senapati, Chandel and Tamenglong, which are Naga-majority areas, they said.
Bengaluru, 8/11: A 52-year-old man was arrested for allegedly sexually harassing a female passenger on a Frankfurt-Bengaluru Lufthansa flight, police said on Wednesday. The alleged incident took place on November 6 while the 32-year-old woman, who hails from Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh, was asleep, they said
