Mumbai, Dec 10: With its Maharashtra alliance partner Shiv Sena backing the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha, the NCP on Tuesday said the two are different parties and it is not possible always for them to hold the same view on all issues. NCP chief spokesperson Nawab […]
New Delhi, Dec 10: A bill which seeks to extend by ten years the quota given to SCs and STs in Lok Sabha and state assemblies was moved for consideration in Lok Sabha by Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, saying these communities still need reservation for a decisive say […]
New Delhi, Dec 10: The BJP is confident of the passage of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Rajya Sabha which will be introduced in the upper house on Wednesday, sources said on Tuesday. The bill piloted by Union Home Minister Amit Shah was comfortably passed in the […]
NEW DELHI – Executives at major state-run Indian companies voiced their opposition to government plans to privatise oil refiner Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd in a statement released by industry bodies on Monday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government last month approved the sale of BPCL and four other state-run […]
KOLKATA/BENGALURU – Indian karate teacher Monimala Halder took up the sport in her teens as a way to get fit. A few months ago, she and her sister used their skills to fend off two men on a motorcycle trying to grab them as they rode past. “I […]
Jaipur, Dec 9: Several theatres here stopped screening Ashutosh Gowariker’s “Panipat” on Monday, amid criticism by Jat groups over the film’s portrayal of Bharatpur’s Maharaja Surajmal. According to the management at some cinemas, the shows were cancelled followed instructions from the administration. The screenings will resume only after further […]
New Delhi, Dec 9: Thirty-one Army personnel were killed in terrorist attacks along the Line of Control (LoC) from 2016 to 2018, the government informed the Rajya Sabha on Monday. In written response to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Defence Shripad Naik said that […]
Bengaluru, Dec 9: The ruling BJP swept the by-elections winning 12 of the total 15 seats, helping the four-month-old B S Yediyurappa government to retain majority in the Assembly. Congress Legislature Party leader Siddaramaiah and State Congress chief Dinesh Gundu Rao quit their posts after the party posted a […]
Rajnandgaon, Dec 9: A 20-year-old woman was gang-raped allegedly by four men, all of whom were arrested later, in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon district, police said on Monday. The incident occurred on the night of December 2 under Salhewara police station limits when the victim arrived at her maternal uncle’s home […]
Raipur, Dec 9: A22-year-old CRPF constable allegedly committed suicide on Monday afternoon by shooting himself with his service weapon in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district, police said. The incident occurred at Geedam bus stand in Dantewada, nearly 400 kms away from Raipur, after a group of 22 personnel of the CRPF’s […]
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