New Delhi, 20/5: In an apparent swipe at the Opposition parties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said some political parties keep looking for small incidents of tension to inject poison for their selfish interests. “Attempts will be made to deviate you from the country’s development issues but you have to stick to them,”…
Mumbai, 20/5: For reasons unknown yet, the much-awaited Ayodhya visit of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena President Raj Thackeray has been postponed for now. Raj (53) was expected to visit the temple town in Uttar Pradesh on 5 June. Raj, in a tweet, confirmed that the visit to Ayodhya stands postponed. “The Ayodhya visit is postponed…
Dispur,19/5: The Assam Police has issued an advisory to Oil India Ltd (OIL) and ONGC regarding probable subversive activities by banned ULFA(I) militants on their installations in the state as well as their employees, officials said on Thursday. The two PSU energy majors have taken the security input “seriously” and already issued a series…
Sonipat, 19/5: Senior Congress leader Kuldeep Bishnoi, who is learnt to be miffed with the party after he failed to get a position in the revamped Haryana unit, met Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, triggering speculation about his next move. Bishnoi, the 53-year-old son of former Haryana chief minister Bhajan Lal, said he…
New Delhi, 19/5: Amit Rohidas has been appointed captain and Harmanpreet Singh his deputy for India hockey team’s tour of Belgium and Netherlands for the last leg of the FIH Hockey Pro League. India will play Belgium on 11th and 12th June in Antwerp, Belgium followed by matches against the Netherlands on 18th and 19th…
Chandigarh, 19/5: Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu can contest future elections despite the Supreme Court sentencing him to one-year jail in a 1988 road rage case, a legal expert said on Thursday, citing provisions of the electoral law. “If the sentence was two years or more, then he would have been disqualified from…
Mumbai, 19/5: E-commerce platform for pre-owned vehicles Cars24 has cut nearly 600 jobs in India, which the company on Thursday described as “performance-linked exits”. Cars24, which also has presence in the Middle East, Australia and Southeast Asia, employs around 9,000 people in India. “This is business-as-usual performance-linked exits that happen every year,”…
Chandigarh, 19/5: Former Punjab Congress President Sunil Jakhar joined the BJP on Thursday in the presence of party chief J P Nadda, days after he quit the grand old party. Welcoming him in the BJP, Nadda said Jakhar had enjoyed a special stature in Punjab that was independent of the Congress party and…
New Delhi,19/5: Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik was officially convicted by a special NIA court in Delhi today, May 19, in the terror funding case in Jammu and Kashmir. Malik had previously pled guilty to the charges against him and was officially convicted today.
