Bangalore, 27/8: Former chief minister B S Yediyurappa has informed Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the party organisation is weak in Karnataka and needs to be strengthened urgently to to face the next Assembly elections. Yediyurappa met the PM here on Friday and discussed current political situation in Karnataka. “Yediyurappa informed the…
Goa, 25/8: Goa Police on Thursday pressed a charge of murder against two associates of BJP leader Sonali Phogat after a post-mortem report mentioned that there were “multiple blunt force injuries” on her body. Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code was added to the case related to the death of the 42-year-old leader,…
New Delhi, 25/8: The election for Congress president is likely to be postponed for a few weeks, sources said on Thursday, and the final schedule will be decided in the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting scheduled on August 28. Sources said that it was likely that instead of the election process to get completed by…
Patna, 24/8: CBI raids were under way in Bihar on Tuesday, in connection with the alleged land for job scam. Earlier, reports said that CBI raids were ongoing at the residence of RJD MLC Sunil Singh, in Patna. “It is being done intentionally. There is no meaning to it. They are doing it…
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…
