Chattisgarh, 20/8: The ruling Congress is aiming to win at least 75 of the 90 seats in the upcoming Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, party’s state in-charge Kumari Selja has said. The state Assembly polls are due this year-end. Talking to reporters here on Saturday after meetings of the Chhattisgarh Congress political affairs committee and the…
Ladakh, 19/8: Eight soldiers were feared dead after their vehicle skidded off the road and plunged into a deep gorge in Leh district of Ladakh on Saturday, officials said. The accident took place at Kerey in southern Ladakh’s Nyoma Saturday evening, the officials said. They said a rescue operation was underway at the site.
Leh, 19/8: Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday rode a motorcycle from Leh to Pangong Lake in the Union Territory of Ladakh on the eve of his father Rajiv Gandhi’s birth anniversary, a party spokesman said. The former Congress president is currently on a tour of Ladakh — his first since the region was…
Chattisgarh, 19/8: Seeking to make inroads in Chhattisgarh, Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday announced ten “guarantees” for the upcoming assembly polls in the Congress-ruled state including free electricity, monthly `samman rashi’ for women and Rs 3,000 monthly allowance for the unemployed. Addressing an AAP workers convention, the Delhi chief minister said his…
Bhubaneswar,19/8: As many as 412 persons joined state power infrastructure company ‘Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Ltd’ today. 161 of them are Electrical Engineers, 54 Office Assistants, and 197 Electrical Technicians. An orientation programme was organized at Convention Centre in Lok Seva Bhawan. Addressing the new recruits, Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik said that Quality and…
Manipur, 19/8: Senior CPI(M) leader Jitendra Chaudhury, who is currently visiting strife-torn Manipur as member of a party delegation, on Saturday demanded the removal of Chief Minister N Biren Singh for “failing to restore normalcy”. Chaudhury, the Tripura unit’s general secretary and part of the CPI(M) delegation that is on a three-day visit to the…
New Delhi, 19/8: Indian women’s hockey legend Rani Rampal has claimed that there are many unfit players in the team picked for the Asian Games, and asserted that she is in no mood to retire. As per the provisional squad issued by Hockey India, Rani is not part of the Hangzhou-bound team despite making a…
Satyabadi, 19/8: In a sad piece of news, 5T Secretary VK Pandian, Puri Collector Samarth Verma allegedly attacked with ink while attending an event at UGS College at Satyabadi in Puri district .The police detained the person involved in the act .
Thiruvananthapuram, 19/8: In what looks like a tit for tat move, Congress MLA in Kerala Mathew Kuzhalnadan, who raised financial allegations against Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his daughter, is now facing probes by multiple state government agencies over allegations On Monday a revenue department team conducted verifications at the premises of his house…
Dispur, 19/8: Senior BJP leader and former union minister Rajen Gohain on Friday resigned as the chairman of Assam Food and Civil Supplies Corporation in protest against the delimitation of the Nagaon Lok Sabha constituency and claimed it will be impossible for the party to win from that seat in the future. Gohain, who had…
