Thiruvananthapuram, 22/8: A full emergency was declared at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport on Thursday following a bomb threat on an Air India flight from Mumbai, airport sources said. The aircraft is currently being inspected by security agencies, including a bomb detection squad, they said, adding the passengers who travelled on the flight are presently waiting…
Ranchi, 21/8: Former Jharkhand chief minister Champai Soren said he would not quit politics, asserting that an option to float a new political outfit was always open to him.
New Delhi, 21/8: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will review the inter-state coordination among the Naxal-affected states at a high-level meeting to be held in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur on Saturday. At a separate meeting on the same day, Shah will also review security and development initiatives in Maoists-hit areas of Chhattisgarh, sources said here on Wednesday….
Chicago, 21/8: Former President Barack Obama cast Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday night as the inheritor of the political movement he created, saying her candidacy had rekindled the hope that propelled him to the Oval Office 16 years ago. In back-to-back speeches at Democratic National Convention in Chicago, former first lady Michelle Obama and…
Bhubaneswar, 21/8: In a major political development, Mamata Mohanta filed her nomination papers for Rajya Sabha from BJP today after quitting as a RS member from BJD on July 31, 2024 Her first term in RS from BJD was from April 3, 2020 to July 31, 2024 spanning 4 years 4 months She…
New Delhi, 21/8: Senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has once again lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media, saying that if the PM does not announce his retirement by his 75th birthday, he shall be removed from his position “by other methods” If Modi does not, as committed to RSS Pracharak’s sanskaar,…
New Delhi, 21/8: In a big development, the Reservation Bachao Sangharsh Samiti has called for a nationwide Bharat Bandh on August 21, 2024, in response to a Supreme Court ruling that allows sub-categorization within SC/ST reservations. The bandh is gaining support from various social and political organizations, particularly in Rajasthan. Police across several states, especially…
New Delhi, 21/5: India Prime Minister Narendra Modi will look to strengthen bilateral cooperation with Ukraine during his visit to Kyiv and will “share perspectives” on the peaceful resolution of the conflict with Russia, Modi said on Wednesday.
Mumbai: Thousands of protesters on Tuesday blocked railway tracks at Badlapur station in Thane district and stormed a local school building after the alleged sexual assault of two four-year-old girls by the school sweeper in the washroom. Police cane-charged the protesters, who occupied the railway tracks, pelting stones at policemen. Hundreds of protesters, many of…
Raebareli (UP), 20/8: Evading queries on the Kolkata doctor rape-and-murder case, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said he would speak on the matter in future as he does not want to be distracted from the issue of the murder of a Dalit youth whose family he met here
