New Delhi, 10/11: Union Home Minister and veteran BJP leader Amit Shah on Sunday released the party’s ‘Sankalp Patra’ or manifesto in Mumbai for the upcoming assembly elections in Maharashtra. Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was also present at the occasion along with senior party leaders from the state.
Kolkata,10/11: The body of a BJP leader was found inside the party office at Usthi in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, a police officer said on Saturday. The deceased, Prithviraj Naskar, used to handle the social media account of the party in the district
Mumbai, 9/11NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday lashed out at Maharashtra minister Dhananjay Munde, an aide of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, and said those behind the split in the NCP must be defeated. Speaking in Parli in Beed district, Pawar said people were being “bullied” and this had to stop.
Srinagar, 9/8: An unidentified militant was killed in an ongoing encounter with security forces in Sopore area of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Saturday. An official said that a joint anti-terrorist operation was launched by J&K Police and army following a “specific input” about the presence of militants in Rampora, Sopore.
Ottawa, 9/11: Canada has ended with immediate effect the popular fast track study visa programme, SDS, a major policy decision that is likely to impact scores of international students, including from India. The processing time for students applying under the Student Direct Stream (SDS) was significantly shorter and approval rates higher, something that will change…
Shimla, 9/11: With samosa politics heating up in Himachal Pradesh, a BJP MLA has ordered 11 samosas online for Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu Taking a dig at the state’s Congress government over the CID conducting an enquiry into the sequence of events that led to samosas brought for the chief minister being served to…
Ranchi,9/11: In a no-holds-barred attack on the BJP, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Saturday accused the saffron party of “squeezing the state like a lemon” for almost two decades and “smashing” the backbones of poor states He also charged the BJP-led Centre with “destroying” the federal structure of the country by creating “double engine…
Bhubaneswar, 9/11: In a major development, Odisha Deputy CM Pravati Parida announced that the third phase of the first instalment of the Subhadra Yojana would be credited directly to the bank accounts on November 24. After returning from her London visit, Deputy CM made the much-awaited announcement.
Quetta, 9/11: At least 13 people were killed and 25 injured in a bomb blast at a railway station in Quetta in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday, a police official told Reuters. Pakistan is grappling with a surge in militant attacks in its northwest and a growing separatist insurgency in the south.
New Delhi,8/11: With Assembly elections round the corner, Delhi has entered the ‘yatra’ mode. Close on the heels of AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal launching the second phase of his ‘padayatra’ last Sunday, Congress on Friday launched its ‘Delhi Nyay Yatra’ while the BJP is embarking on ‘Parivartan Yatra’ later this month
