Guwahati, 7/9: All new applicants for Aadhaar cards in Assam need to submit their NRC application receipt number (ARN), Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Saturday. A detailed standard operating procedure (SOP) will be prepared for the purpose and this will be implemented from October 1, he said.
New Delhi, 7/9: The central government has discharged Puja Khedkar, former probationary civil servant, from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) with immediate effect, official sources said on Saturday. Khedkar has been accused of cheating and wrongly availing Other Backward Classes (OBC) and disability quota benefits to ensure her selection in the service. She has denied…
New Delhi, 7/9: Amid uncertainty over an alliance with the Congress for the assembly polls in Haryana, AAP on Saturday warned that those who “underestimate” the party would “regret” it. AAP national secretary (organisation) Sandeep Pathak said during a press conference that the party was ready to contest from all 90 seats in the Haryana…
Gonda, 7/9: Wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia were used by the Congress as “pawns” in their “conspiracy” to take control of the Wrestling Federation of India and attack the BJP, former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh said on Saturday. A day after Olympians Phogat and Punia joined the Congress, the senior BJP leader…
New Delhi, 7/9: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was “party to the criminal conspiracy” of the formulation and implementation of the Delhi Excise Policy since the beginning, the CBI has alleged in its latest supplementary charge sheet in the case. Concluding its probe with the submission of the fifth and final charge sheet in the case,…
Hathras, UP, 7/9: Two more children died in Hathras bus accident while undergoing treatment at a hospital, taking the death toll to 17, officials said on Saturday Appi (2) and Gulshan succumbed to their injuries at a hospital in Aligarh, they said. As many as 16 people — 11 in Hathras and 5 in Aligarh…
Balasore, 6/9: India on Friday successfully test-fired an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile, Agni-4, from the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur off the Odisha coast, defence sources said . The launch successfully validated all operational and technical parameters. It was conducted under the aegis of the Strategic Forces Command, the sources said.
Hathras,6/9: At least 15 people, including four women and an equal number of children, travelling in a van were killed on Friday after a roadways bus hit the vehicle from behind on National Highway 93 here, officials said. Thirteen others were injured in the accident and they have been admitted to a government hospital. …
Kolkata, 6/9: West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Friday referred the anti-rape Bill passed by the assembly to President Droupadi Murmu for her consideration, a Raj Bhavan official said. Bose, who was handed over the technical report of the bill by Chief Secretary Manoj Pant earlier in the day, referred the Bill to…
New Delhi, ,6/9: From wrestling mats, Olympian grapplers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia on Friday entered a new territory — politics — by joining Congress as they ended speculation about their future course of action even as the party described them as the party described them as leaders who evolved through protest movements.
