Mumbai, 26/1: Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration Minister Narhari Zirwal on Sunday drew flak from Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and his BJP cabinet colleague Girish Mahajan for humorously describing Hingoli as a “poor” district. Zirwal, an NCP legislator from Nashik district and a close associate of party chief Pawar, made the remarks while addressing…
Indonesia, 22/11: The death toll from the earthquake that shook the Indonesian island of Java leapt to 268 on Tuesday as more bodies were found beneath collapsed buildings, and 151 people are still missing, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency said. Agency head Suharyanto, who like many Indonesians only goes by one name, told…
New Delhi, 14/10: Coronavirus vaccines have been sent to Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Iran according to the government’s decision to resume their supplies, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said the government has decided to send the supplies to the neighbourhood initially. India, the world’s largest…
Patna, 7/7:RJD president Lalu Prasad was admitted to the premier AIIMS in Delhi Wednesday night after being airlifted from a Patna hospital where he underwent initial treatment for multiple fractures suffered due to a fall, party sources said. The 74-year-old former Bihar chief minister was accompanied by a team of doctors and his eldest daughter…
Lucknow, 29/2: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is likely to skip CBI summons in five-year-old illegal mining case as a witness, news agency PTI reported sources as saying. The agency’s action comes days after the SP and Congress announced its seat-sharing arrangement for Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh for Lok Sabha polls. Officials said the…
Bhubaneswar, 15/7: Attacking the ruling BJP in Odisha over the death of the college student who set herself on fire, Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged it was nothing less than an “organised murder by the system”. Gandhi alleged that those who were supposed to protect her kept “breaking…
New Delhi, 11/9: The India Meteorological Department said on Saturday that Delhi received 1100 mm of rain so far in this year’s highly unusual monsoon season, which is the highest in 46 years and almost double the rainfall recorded last year. However, these figures are subject to change, as more rain is expected in the…
Sri Surendra Behera, Superintending Engineer, Irrigation Division, Angul has been placed under arrest by Odisha Vigilance and will be forwarded today to the Court of Spl. Judge, Vigilance, Sundargarh for possession of disproportionate assets. Based on searches conducted on properties of Sri Surendra Behera, Superintending Engineer, Irrigation Division, Angul, he was found in possession of…
Bengaluru, 3/10: Eminent journalist and author Thayil Jacob Sony George, popularly known as T J S George, passed away at Manipal Hospital in Bengaluru on Friday. He was 97. A Padma Bhushan awardee, TJS was widely respected for his incisive writings, often marked by satire and sarcasm.
Washington, 1/3: The stunning blow-up between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House came after weeks of frustration by Trump and his top aides who saw the Ukrainian leader as an obstacle to their goals of quickly ending the war, restoring ties with Moscow and sealing a potentially lucrative minerals…
