New Delhi, 19/8: A liquor trader paid Rs 1 crore to a company managed by an associate of Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, the CBI has claimed in its FIR on alleged corruption in the framing and implementation of the excise policy 2021-22. The agency, which carried out raids at Sisodia’s official residence…
New Delhi, 26/7: India has built 2,000 kilometres of all-weather roads along its disputed boundary with China over the past five years as growing belligerence of the neighbouring country prompted it to renew focus on construction of infrastructure that would help it mobilise troops in case of a conflict. Ever since the Indian…
New Delhi, 5/9: The Constitution bench of the Supreme Court has reserved its verdict on a batch of petitions challenging the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union territories. The five-judge Constitution bench comprising Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul,…
Bangalore, 13/10: Calls to do away with the 4 per cent reservation exclusively given to Muslims under the OBC category in Karnataka are growing within the ruling BJP. Following the ban on Popular Front of India (PFI), the theory doing the rounds within the ruling BJP is that doing away with reservation for…
New Delhi,31/1: An opinion poll telecast on Sunday predicted that Congress has an upper hand in Punjab and Goa while it is a neck-and-neck fight between Congress and BJP in Uttarakhand while BJP has an edge in Manipur. According to the India TV-Ground Zero Research Team Opinion Poll, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Manipur are heading…
Bhubaneswar, 5/3 (AO Bureau): Addressing party leaders and workers on the occasion of the 105th birth anniversary of the proverbial man Biju Patnaik, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said, “His goal was to bring Odisha to the pinnacle of development. The service was Bijubabu’s ideal, which is the goal of the BJD. So the people of…
Patna, 27/1: Amid the turmoil in Bihar’s ruling Mahagathbandhan, the opposition BJP has called a meeting of its MPs and MLAs on Saturday apparently to discuss the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. According to BJP state unit chief Samrat Choudhary, the meeting will deliberate on the party’s strategy for the general elections, the dates for which…
Bengaluru,6/6 : Hours after his appointment, senior IPS officer Seemant Kumar Singh on Friday morning took charge as the new commissioner of the Bengaluru City police.. In a brief interaction with a few TV reporters, Singh assured that he would continue the good work done by his predecessors.
Kyiv, 2/6: Ukrainian authorities on Friday lifted air raid alerts across most of the nation, including for the capital Kyiv, hours after Russia fired off a new round of aerial missiles, official websites showed. Russia has launched around 20 separate missile and drone strikes against Ukrainian cities since the start of May. Kyiv Mayor…
India ranks second in the number of smokers aged between 16 and 64 years and is among the nations with one of the lowest quit rates for smoking, according to a new report. The report prepared by ‘The International Commission to Reignite the Fight Against Smoking’ using secondary data from sources like the World Bank,…
