UP, ,27/2:Amid concerns over cross-voting and the party chief whip quitting while polling was underway in the Rajya Sabha elections, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav Tuesday warned action will be taken against such MLAs. The SP’s chief whip in state Assembly Manoj Pandey quit the party on Tuesday, the jolt coming a day after he…
Ranchi, ,26/2: India’s home supremacy weathered the ‘Bazball’ storm as Rohit Sharma’s men secured a hard-fought five-wicket win over England in the fourth and penultimate Test for a 17th consecutive series triumph in their own backyard here on Monday. Overnight 40/0 in a chase of 192 here, India romped home after surviving a few hiccups…
Beijing, 24/2: At least 15 people were killed and 44 others injured when a building caught fire in China, a month after 39 people died in a similar accident. The building fire broke out in Nanjing, the capital city of east China’s Jiangsu Province, the municipal government said on Saturday. Forty-four injured in the fire…
Chennai, 16/2: A city court on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by former Tamil Nadu Minister V Senthil Balaji, which sought to defer the trial in a money laundering case registered against him by the Enforcement Directorate. Principal Sessions Judge (PSJ) S Alli, before whom Senthil Balaji was produced by the prosecution through video…
Patna, 12/2: The Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in Bihar won a vote of confidence in the Assembly on Monday. The new government secured 129 votes amid a walkout by Opposition members. The Bihar assembly has a strength of 243 MLAs. Kumar jumped ship from the Mahagathbandhan alliance late last month to join forces with the…
New Delhi, 5/2: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday expressed confidence that the NDA will get more than 400 seats and the BJP will win at least 370 seats in the Lok Sabha elections. Modi said he was convinced that the opposition parties have lost the courage to contest elections and have resolved to stay…
Ranchi, 2/2: Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren was on Friday remanded to five days’ Enforcement Directorate custody by a special PMLA court here in connection with a money laundering case linked to an alleged land fraud, lawyers said. Soren was arrested on Wednesday night after a seven-hour grilling by the ED in the money…
Patna, 20/1: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav is being questioned by ED sleuths here in connection with the agency’s money laundering probe into the alleged land-for-jobs scam, officials said. The former Bihar deputy chief minister reached the ED office around 11.35 am, they said. His father and RJD supremo Lalu Prasad was questioned…
UP, 29/1: Amid claims by the Hindu litigants’ lawyer that the report of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which conducted a scientific survey of the contentious Gyanvapi Mosque premises in Varanasi and submitted the survey report in the district court earlier, found evidence of a Hindu temple there, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath…
Kalaburagi, 23/1: Prohibitory orders have been clamped in Wadi town in Karnataka’s Kalaburagi district following a quarrel during a Lord Ram idol procession, police said on Tuesday. The prohibitory orders under CrPC section 144 which will remain in force until 6 am on January 25 have been issued as a precautionary measure to maintain law…
