Chennai, 1/5: With most exit polls predicting his government’s return, DMK President and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on held consultations with party candidates from northern districts on the April 23 assembly elections. Stalin met candidates and and district secretaries from northern districts and got a briefing on the happenings on the polling…
West Bengal, 1/5: The Election Commission on Friday ordered repolling in 15 booths of West Bengal on Saturday. The repolling is scheduled in two assembly constituencies. While 11 polling stations are in the Magarhat Paschim assembly constituency, four are in Diamond Harbour. Earlier on Thursday, an official had said that the polling body was actively…
Chandigarh, 1/5: Controversy erupted inside Punjab Assembly after the Opposition alleged that the state CM Bhagwant Mann came drunk to the state assembly. Opposition party members including the Congress accused the CM of being inebriated as he addressed the assembly during the special Labour Day session. Taking note of his unusual behaviour, Congress member and…
Mumbai, 1/5: Amid the continuing conflict in West Asia and rising global energy prices, the price of commercial LPG was increased by Rs 993 per 19-kg cylinder on Friday, marking the third consecutive monthly hike. With the revision, a 19-kg commercial LPG cylinder used by hotels, restaurants and other establishments now costs a record Rs…
Washington, 1/5 : India is among six countries, including China and Russia, on the priority watch list in a special report released by the US Trade Representative on Thursday that deals with adequacy and effectiveness of trading partners’ protection and enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights. The US Special 301 report 2026 lists Vietnam as…
Jabalpur,, 30/4: Four people drowned after a cruise boat carrying 35 – 40 people overturned in Bargi river in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur district due to a sudden storm on Thursday, police said. City Superintendent of Police (Bargi town) Anjul Mishra said that eighteen people have been rescued and about 15 to 18 still remain missing….
Washington DC, 26/4:President Donald Trump slammed the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday, criticising him for his statements over US-Iran war. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, said that Germany should focus on ending Russia-Ukraine war and spend “less time in on interfering” with United States getting rid of the “Iran’s Nuclear threat. The…
Kolkata, 30/4: The Election Commission has decided to introduce QR code-based identity cards at counting centres to prevent unauthorised entry during vote counting for assembly elections in five states on May 4, an official said on Thursday. The system will be implemented on counting day for the assembly polls in West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil…
New Delhi, 30/4: The Supreme Court on Thursday pulled up the Centre for not filing its affidavit on a petition which sought regulatory guidelines to control the “unpredictable fluctuations” in airfare and ancillary charges imposed by private airlines in India. A bench of justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta asked the Centre to file an…
Kathmandu, 30/4: Nepal Airlines on Thursday apologised for what it described as cartographic inaccuracies in the wake of a furore showing Jammu and Kashmir as part of Pakistan in a “network map”. The airlines had deleted the social media post on Wednesday following the backlash. “We sincerely apologise for error in the network map recently…
