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.
Mumbai, 15/5: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday sought a status report on the inquiry being conducted into the alleged suicide in police custody of an accused arrested in the case of firing outside actor Salman Khan’s residence. A vacation bench of Justices Sandeep Marne and Neela Gokhale also directed for the CCTV footage of…
Slovakia, 15/5: Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was injured in a shooting after a government meeting, news agency TASR reported on Wednesday. TASR cited parliament’s vice-chairman Lubos Blaha as saying Fico was shot and injured. A Reuters witness said he heard several shots and that he saw a man being detained by police.
Ranchi, 15/5: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested Jharkhand rural development minister Alamgir Alam on Wednesday in connection with a money laundering case, PTI reports citing sources. This comes after the ED grilled Alam for over nine hours on Tuesday. The ED had last week arrested Alam’s personal secretary and state administrative service officer Sanjeev…
