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…
New York, 19/8: Two men who have accused Michael Jackson of sexually abusing them as children are able to resume their lawsuits against companies owned by the singer, who died in 2009, a California appeals court ruled Friday. The men, Wade Robson, 40, and James Safechuck, 45, have alleged that Jackson sexually abused them for…
Keonjhar, 18/8: In a sad piece of news, the mother of martyred Jawan died days after she lost her son in naxal attack in Anandapur area of Odisha’s Keonjhar district.She was critically illafter her son CRPF Jawan Sushant Khuntia martyred in a naxal attack in Jharkhand on August 11.
UP, 18/8: Newly-appointed Uttar Pradesh Congress president Ajay Rai on Friday said that senior Congress leader and former national president of the party Rahul Gandhi would contest from Amethi Lok Sabha seat in the next Parliamentary elections scheduled for 2024. Speaking to reporters at Varanasi, his home town, Rai also said that Congress workers would…
Mumbai, 18/8: Ending decades of speculation and moves to start casinos, the Eknath Shinde-led BJP-Shiv Sena-NCP government on Friday scrapped the Maharashtra Casino (Control and Tax) Act, 1976. The Act could never be implemented because of strong opposition to casinos from various quarters. Fearing backlash, successive governments never attempted it in the last four decades…
Bhubaneswar, 18/8: In a major development, Prof. Sabita Pradhan has been appointed as the first Vice-Chancellor (VC) of Odia University, Satyabadi, Puri. Odisha Governor and Chancellor Prof. Ganeshi Lal appointed Prof. Pradhan as the first VC of Odia University for a period of two years. The notification said”In exercise of the powers conferred by…
New Delhi, 18/8: Aam Aadmi Party MLAs on Friday trained guns at Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the ongoing session of the Delhi Assembly as they cited CAG reports on various Central government schemes including the construction of the Dwarka Expressway. The BJP MLAs staged a walkout when their notice for a discussion on an…
Poonch, 18/8: The 10-day Buddha Amarnath Yatra began on Friday with a batch of over 1,000 pilgrims leaving the Bhagwati Nagar base camp here for Jammu and Kashmir’s mountainous Poonch district. Chants of ‘Bam Bam Bhole’, ‘Har Har Mahadev’ and ‘Jai Shri Ram’ rent the air as the pilgrims’ convoy was flagged off by Additional…
Ranchi, 18/8: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren alleged that BJP and AJSU Party only love power and they do not have any concern for the people of the state. Addressing an election rally for JMM candidate Bebi Devi in Dumri in Giridih district, Soren on Thursday. Their only work is to divide and rule. They…
