Lucknow, 29/2: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is likely to skip CBI summons in five-year-old illegal mining case as a witness, news agency PTI reported sources as saying. The agency’s action comes days after the SP and Congress announced its seat-sharing arrangement for Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh for Lok Sabha polls. Officials said the…
New Delhi, 28/2: The government on Wednesday banned two factions of the Muslim Conference Jammu and Kashmir for five years for their “anti-India and pro-Pakistan propaganda”, and asking people to refrain from taking part in elections. Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is determined to uproot terrorism,…
Chennai, 28/2: After an advertisement by Tamil Nadu Fisheries Minister Anitha Radhakrishnan with a Chinese flag on the nose cone of a rocket, to mark the foundation stone laying ceremony of India’s second spaceport in Thoothukudi district, triggered a major row. Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit out at the ruling DMK-government, terming it as an…
Mumbai, 28/2: Skipper Rohit Sharma and star batter Virat Kohli retained their place in the top bracket but the out-of-favour duo of Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer were excluded after ignoring the directive to play Ranji Trophy as the BCCI unveiled its centrally-contracted player for this year. Rohit, Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja figured…
Mumbai, 28/2: Walt Disney Co and Reliance Industries on Wednesday announced signing of binding pacts to merge their media operations in India to create a Rs 70,000 crore behemoth. Reliance and its affiliates will hold 63.16 per cent in the combined entity while Disney will hold the remaining 36.84 per cent, the companies said in…
Kolkata, 28/2:West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that the Khalistani jibe at a Sikh IPS officer in the state showed the ‘real communal face’ of the BJP. When they see a Sikh IPS officer wearing pagdi (turban), they call him Khalistani. This is their real communal face,” she said, while addressing an…
Bhubaneswar, 28/2: In a major development, Microsoft co-founder & philanthropist Bill Gates was briefed by DC Anu Garg & Principal Secy of UD Dept G Mathi Vathanan on the working of Jaga Mission & Mukta scheme.
New Delhi, ,27/2: The rules for the implementation of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA) for fast-tracking citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan are likely to be issued before the Model Code of Conduct for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections comes into effect. The Model Code of Conduct (MCC) gets…
Shimla, 27/2: Congress is staring at losing its government in Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday after disgruntled MLAs switched sides to vote for BJP candidate Harsh Mahajan against party candidate Abhishek Singhvi in the Rajya Sabha election and eventually winning on a draw of lots. After the polling, Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu alleged that six…
Bhubaneswar, 27/2: Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik today inaugurated Mission Shakti Bazar here in the city. Opening the MSB, the CM said that it will be a strong platform to support sustainable livelihoods for women in rural and semi urban areas of the state. It has been developed under 5T initiative to promote…
