Kolkata, 12/3: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has decided to include former West Bengal chief minister Siddhartha Shankar Ray’s south-Kolkata residence on its list of heritage buildings, councillor Sandip Ranjan Bakshi said on Sunday. Built in 1900, Ray’s residence, a two-storey red brick structure, is considered to be a landmark in Hazra area. …
Bangalore, 12/3: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai used the government event to seek the support of the electorate for the BJP, comparing the party with the earlier Congress and JD(S) governments. Modi verbally attacked Congress, stating that Congress leaders are always trying to dig a pit to build a grave…
New Delhi,12/3: In a major development, the Centre in a filing to the Supreme Court on Sunday stuck to its earlier stand that same-sex marriage is not compatible with the concept of an “Indian family unit”, which it said consists of “a husband, a wife, and children which necessarily presuppose a biological man as a…
Mumbai, 12/3: Hindi film star Madhuri Dixit’s mother Snehalata Dikshit died here on Sunday. She was 90. The Bollywood actor shared the news in a statement issued to the media. “Our beloved Aai, Snehalata Dikshit, passed away peacefully this morning surrounded by her loved ones,” the statement, signed by the actor and her…
Ahmedabad, 12/3The Indian team and National Cricket Academy’s injury management has once again come under scanner with the recurrence of Shreyas Iyer’s back injury. Pain in his lower back forced Iyer to miss his batting turn on day four of the fourth Test here. There is a high possibility that Iyer could miss…
Washington DC,12/3: Four crew members aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule splashed down off Florida’s Gulf coast on Saturday, returning safely from a five-month science mission on the International Space Station. The SpaceX capsule, dubbed Endurance, parachuted into waters off the coast of Tampa just after 9 pm EST (7:30 am) carrying two…
Bengaluru, 12/3: A 28-year-old air hostess died after falling from the fourth floor of an apartment building in the upscale Koramangala 8th Block in southeastern Bengaluru. Archana Dhiman’s boyfriend Adesh, 26, a software engineer, told the police that she accidentally fell down from the fourth-floor corridor of the apartment building in Mallappa Reddy…
Mumbai, 11/3: The Bandhan Financial Holdings-led consortium is set to launch a new brand identity for IDFC Mutual Fund, which will be effective from March 13, a statement said on Saturday. As a result, the fund house’s schemes will be renamed, with the word ‘Bandhan’ replacing ‘IDFC’ in each of them. The new brand logo…
Chennai, 11/3: In yet another attack on the BJP, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin has said those who try to convert India into a “unitary” state are the “enemies” of social justice, brotherhood and equality, which he contended, are the three ideals that protect the idea of India. Stalin also utilised…
New Delhi, 11/3: Advocate Nitesh Rana on Saturday resigned as the special public prosecutor of the Enforcement Directorate, citing personal reasons. As a special public prosecutor since 2015, Rana represented the federal agency in several high-profile cases, including those against former Union finance minister P Chidambaram, Congress leader D K Shivakumar, RJD supremo…
