Kolkata, 28/1: The Trinamool Congress on Saturday asserted that its leader, Mamata Banerjee, has never indicated a departure from the opposition bloc INDIA at the national level, despite recent announcements of the party’s decision to contest the Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal alone. On the ongoing speculation surrounding TMC’s stance within the opposition front,…
Pune, 18/2: A special court in Pune on Tuesday granted permanent exemption from appearance to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case filed over his alleged objectionable remarks on Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar. An application seeking permanent exemption from appearing before the court was moved by Advocate Milind Pawar, who is representing Gandhi…
New Delhi, 1/5: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will be on a four-day visit to South Korea starting Tuesday to attend Asian Development Bank’s annual meeting. Besides attending the 56th Annual General Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) here, she will address investors and hold bilateral meetings. Her packed…
Bangalore, 16/5: Karnataka Congress chief D K Shivakumar, engaged in an intense competition with Siddaramaiah over the post of Chief Minister, left for Delhi on Tuesday morning. “Congress party General Secretary has instructed me to come alone, I’m going to Delhi alone. My health is good,” Shivakumar told reporters outside his residence before…
Bhubaneswar: Jharsuguda is boiling under an intense and unrelenting heatwave, becoming one of the hottest hotspots in Odisha. Residents are facing extreme misery as the blistering daytime temperatures combined with warm nights have made life highly uncomfortable, severely disrupting normal routines and forcing people to remain indoors as much as possible.This extreme heat in Jharsuguda…
Dhenkanal: The mortal remains of CISF jawan Manoj Biswal, who lost his life in a devastating landslide triggered by a cloudburst in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district on August 14, were consigned to flames at his native village Manikamara under Parjang block in Dhenkanal district on Monday morning.Thousands of villagers, family members, and relatives gathered to…
Washington, 11/7: US President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States would impose a 35% tariff on imports from Canada next month and planned to impose blanket tariffs of 15% or 20% on most other trade partners. In a letter released on his social media platform, Trump told Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney the…
New Delhi, 21/11: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday declared its first list of 11 candidates for the Delhi Assembly polls due in February next year Six leaders from the BJP and Congress, who had recently switched to the Arvind Kejriwal-led party, figured in the list. While Brahm Singh Tanwar (Chhatarpur), Anil Jha (Kirari),…
Bhubaneswar: A woman from Odisha reportedly died in Bengaluru recently. Her father has alleged that his daughter has been murdered and the culprit tried to make it look like a natural death. According to information, Subhasree, daughter of Anant Kishore Samal of Baripada village under Balichandrapur police station limits in Jajpur district was married to Pramod,…
Beijing, 13/11: Chinese experts have sounded an alert about the relapse of Covid-19 infections during the current winter season and asked elderly and vulnerable populations to get vaccinated. The Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Chinese CDC) shows that a total of 209 new severe Covid-19 cases and 24 deaths caused by Covid-19 were…
