Shimla: Thirty-four incidents of landslide, flash flood and cloudburst in Himachal Pradesh owing to heavy rainfall on Saturday claimed 16 lives, officials said, adding eight others have been missing. Mandi, Kangra and Chamba were the worst affected districts, officials said. The railway bridge over the Chakki river on the border of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh also…
Shimla: The government headed by Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur has ensured that Himachal Pradesh emerges as frontrunner in development with its hard work, dedication and commitment to ensure welfare of the people and all this was possible due to the ‘double engine governments’, BJP president J.P. Nadda on Saturday. Addressing a public meeting at Paonta…
Thiruvananthapuram: Ever since coming under attack from Swapna Suresh, the prime accused in the gold smuggling case in Kerala, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan rarely comes before the media. However, on Saturday, Vijayan turned up at a conference organised by the Kerala Union of Working Journalists here, and literally gave a dressing-down to the scribes, giving them…
Shimla: Amid heavy rains and cloudburst in Himachal Pradesh, the Shimla-Kalka National Highway 5 was damaged due to a massive landslide near Shoghi on Saturday, hampering the traffic. No casualties have been reported so far, although the traffic was diverted via Shoghi-Mehli bypass, a senior police officer told IANS. In another incident, Sudesh Mokhta, director of…
Bhopal: A Right to Information (RTI) activist was shot dead in Madhya Pradesh’s Vidisha district on Thursday, police said. The incident in Vidisha, around 60 km from Bhopal, created panic among residents in the locality as Ranjeet Soni was shot dead close as he came out of a government office in broad daylight. The local police…
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday held a meeting to review the preparedness to deal with floods in the monsoon season. He also took stock of the preparations made by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in the flood-affected areas, and reviewed the long-term measures to…
New Delhi, 4/4: The Supreme Court on Monday reserved its order on the plea for cancellation of bail to Ashish Mishra, son of Union Minister Ajay Mishra, in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case. In its plea against rescinding the bail, senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani, appearing for the Uttar Pradesh government, said that while…
Patna, 1/4: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who is serving his fourth term in office, will complete his five-year tenure and was “not going anywhere”, senior leaders of his party, the Janata Dal (United), asserted on Friday. More than one top leader of the JD(U) came out with the clarification a day after the rumour…
Bhubaneswar, 25/3: Odia Mountaineer Shri Siddharth Routray today met Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in his assembly chamber and shared his experiences of mountaineering. He has till now has scaled three summits of three continents. They are Mt Dennali in North America, Mt Aconcagua in in South America and Mt Kilimanjaro in Africa. He has…
Mumbai, 15/3: The recent controversy around The Kapil Sharma Show which emerged from a tweet by The Kashmir Files director Vivek Agnihotri, led to a massive backlash for the comedy show with Twitterati asking to boycott the show. Now veteran actor Anupam Kher, who stars in a key role in the film, has…
