Chandigarh, 18/1: Ahead of the assembly elections in Punjab, the Enforcement Directorate has taken major action. In the illegal mining case, the investigating agency has raided the places of many people including the nephew of Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi. According to media reports, 10 different places in the state including the house of Bhupinder…
New Delhi, 12/1: The world is in a state of crisis and it is difficult to predict how long this state of instability will last, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday referring to various global challenges arising out of conflict, war and terrorism among others. In his opening remarks at the Voice of…
Mumbai, 12/5 (AO Bureau):The tensions between Israel and Hamas have been violent for weeks. The number of deaths in continuous attacks has increased rapidly. According to the information received so far, 35 Palestinians and 5 Israelis have been killed in this war. Bollywood actress Swara Bhaskar has also posted on her Twitter account about the…
Mumbai, 18/6: Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty hit their new all-time high levels in early trade on Tuesday helped by firm trends in global markets, buying in IT stocks and fresh foreign fund inflows. Rising for the fourth straight session, the 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 334.03 points to hit its fresh lifetime peak of…
New Delhi, 6/4: A masked man drove an SUV into Delhi Assembly premises on Monday afternoon in a security breach and escaped after placing a bouquet outside the Speaker’s office but within hours the driver was apprehended, police said. The SUV entered the premises by forcing its way through one of the boundary gates where…
New Delhi, 19/9: The Supreme Court on Friday deferred its hearing on pleas for bail filed by former JNU students Sharjeel Imam, Umar Khalid and others, arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for a larger conspiracy in 2020 Delhi riots. A bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and N V Anjaria allowed a plea for…
Bengaluru 22/7: A special court on Monday sent ex-Congress minister B Nagendra arrested in the alleged multi-crore scam at the Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation to judicial custody for 14 days. Nagendra will remain in jail till August 4. Nagendra was produced before the court on Monday morning after his extended custody with…
New Delhi, 1/6: Congress is mulling setting up coordination committees in states where the party is in power to ensure that control of the administration is not centralised in one person and there is proper consultation within the party on policy formation and governance.The template is that of the UPA Coordination Committee but this will…
New Delhi, 26/1: The risk level related to the Omicron variant remains very high, the WHO said late Tuesday, with the numbers of new Covid-19 cases hitting another record high last week. “Over 21 million new cases were reported, representing the highest number of weekly cases recorded since the beginning of the pandemic,”…
UP, 29/10: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has alleged that the Election Commission did not follow rules while preparing the voters’ list in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls earlier this year. He alleged that there is a “conspiracy” by the BJP government to suppress the voice of the opposition. “Had the Election…
