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…
Bhubaneswar, 22/1: In a major development, Odisha government reshuffle s IAS. Cadre.Puri Collector Samarth Verma has been appointed as Additional Chief Administrator, Shree Jagannath Temple Administration Mayurbhanj Collector Vineet Bharadwaj has been appointed Cuttack Collector Khordha Collector K. Sudarshan Chakravarthy has been appointed Director Minor Minerals, Bhubaneswar CMC Commissioner Nikhil Pavan Kalyan has been appointed…
Iraq, 20/1: In a major development, Attackers fired multiple rockets at US forces at Iraq’s Ain al-Asad air base on Saturday, two security sources and one government source said.
Puri, 17/1: History is created today as Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated the ambitious Srimandira Parikrama Prakalpa. Naveen unveiled the Parikrama Prakalpa plaque amidst the chanting of mantras and in the presence of Gajapati Maharaja Dibyasingha Deb, senior servitors and 5T Chairman Kartik Pandian. The three-day Mahayagna also came to an end with the…
