Kolkata ; As she led thousands of hungry, half-clad and angry farmers on the dusty streets of Singur and Nandigram over a decade ago, defying the mighty Communist regime of West Bengal, little did she know she was on the threshold of scripting history. Mamata Banerjee, the tempestuous Trinamool […]
Panaji ; The ruling BJP has said closure of the mining sector in Goa will not have a negative impact on its chances in the Lok Sabha polls or bypolls in three Assembly seats. Mining came to a standstill in March last year after the Supreme Court quashed 88 […]
Hyderabad : The Congress in Telangana Thursday appeared headed for another setback ahead of Lok Sabha elections, with one more party MLA meeting TRS Working President K T Rama Rao and expressing intention to join the State’s ruling party. Sources in the TRS (Telangana Rashtra Samiti) led by Chief […]
New Delhi : Russian Land Forces Commander Salyukov Oleg Leonidovich met Army Chief Bipin Rawat on Thursday and discussed ways to enhance defence ties. Colonel General Leonidovich also laid a wreath at the National War Memorial here. In his meeting with Gen Rawat, the Russian Colonel General discussed key […]
Kolkata : Three Congress MLAs who had switched over to the ruling Trinamool Congress last year, resigned from the West Bengal Assembly Thursday, as they will contest Lok Sabha elections on TMC tickets. Abu Taher, Apurba Sarkar and Kanailal Agarwal of the Congress did not resign as MLAs after […]
Chennai : The Madras High Court Thursday declined to order a court-monitored CBI probe into the Pollachi sexual harassment case, citing the Tamil Nadu government order transferring the sensational case to the central investigating agency. A group of women lawyers made an urgent mention before the first bench of […]
Kolkata : The West Bengal CID has seized a huge cache of explosive materials from a village in Bankura district during a raid, a senior officer said on Thursday. Acting on a tip-off, a CID team raided the village under Saltora Police Station in the district, and seized around […]
Bhubaneswar : Congress president Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to visit Odisha on Friday to address a public meeting at Bargarh district, party sources said. Odisha Congress chief and Chhattisgarh minister T S Singh Deo visited the venue of Gandhi’s meeting earlier in the day and oversaw the preparedness, they […]
Srinagar : A 40-year-old man was forcibly taken away from his home and shot dead by terrorists in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said Friday. “Manzoor Ahmad Lone was shot dead by the terrorists late on Thursday night at Gulzarpora in Awantipora area of Pulwama, ” a […]
New Delhi : It was a cold morning in the national capital on Friday with the minimum temperature settling at four notches below the normal. “The minimum temperature at 8.30 AM was 11 degrees Celsius,” a meteorological department official said. The humidity level was recorded at 42 per cent. […]
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