Berhampur, 17/5: Saka Sujit Kumar, the Congress candidate for the Digapahandi assembly seat in Odisha’s Ganjam district, was arrested for allegedly assaulting a builder, police said on Friday. The incident, which was the result of business rivalry, happened near the Berhampur police station on Wednesday, and Kumar was taken into custody on Thursday, they said….
New Delhi, 17/5: Controversy ensued after Aam Admi Party’s Rajya Sabha MP and former Delhi Commission for Women Swati Maliwal complained to the Delhi Police that she was assaulted by Bibhav Kumar, the personal secretary to chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. The Delhi Police on Thursday registered an FIR in connection with the alleged assault on…
Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 17/5 – Vedanta Limited, Lanjigarh, India’s premier producer of smelter grade alumina and a unit of Vedanta Aluminium, conducted a comprehensive multi-specialty health camp and a blood donation drive in Kalahandi district, Odisha. The week-long event prioritised accessible healthcare services through multiple health camps and awareness drives in more than several remote villages…
Kolkata, 17/5: The CBI on Friday conducted raids at the residences of two Trinamool Congress leaders at Kathi in Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal in connection with its ongoing investigation into the killing of a BJP worker in post-poll violence in West Bengal. A team of CBI officers raided the houses of Kathi Block…
Agartala ,17/5: The Tripura government has constituted a six-member state-level empowered committee with Director, Census Operations, as chairman to grant citizenship under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019, an official said on Friday. The CAA was enacted in December 2019 to grant Indian nationality to persecuted Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi and Christian migrants from Bangladesh,…
New Delhi, 16/5 : Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi will campaign for her son and party’s main face Rahul Gandhi in Raebareli along with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday with the party planning a blitzkrieg in the last two days of campaigning. This will be Sonia’s first and probably the last election rally…
New Delhi,16/5: Close to 67 per cent of 67.45 crore people have voted in the first four phases of the Lok Sabha elections, with the Election Commission (EC) on Thursday saying it has introduced various interventions to enhance polling in the remaining three phases of election. Voting will be conducted on May 20 and 25…
Beijing/Moscow, 16/5: Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to work with counterpart Vladimir Putin to “rejuvenate” their countries as the pair started a day of talks in Beijing, saying China would “always be a good partner” of Russia, according to Chinese state media . Putin arrived on Thursday for a two-day state visit that will include…
Lucknow,16/5: AAP leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said the BJP will change the Constitution and end reservation if it comes to power after the Lok Sabha polls. The people of BJP have always been against reservation. They will change the Constitution and end reservation after coming to power,” he said at…
New Delhi, 16/5: Sunil Chhetri, India’s longest-serving football captain, will retire after the World Cup qualifying match against Kuwait on June 6. In a video he shared on X (formerly Twitter) the Bengaluru FC player recalled the first time he was called up to represent India.
