New Delhi: Calling for extensive debate on issues related to public interest, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday hoped that matters of national interest will prevail over party considerations ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. His remarks came ahead of the commencement of the winter session of Parliament. “The winter session of Parliament is […]
Kochi: Senior Congress leader and former Kerala Minister C.N. Balakrishnan died at a private hospital here due to pneumonia, party sources said on Tuesday. He was 87. He died on Monday night, the sources said. A long standing aide of former Kerala Chief Minister K. Karunakaran, Balakrishnan was the Thrissur district Congress committee president for […]
New Delhi: Public Relations Officer (PRO) in the Prime Minister’s Office Jagdish Thakkar died here on Monday due to prolonged illness. He was 72. He was admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in September and passed away on Monday around 5 a.m., a hospital official said. After his death, Prime Minister […]
New Delhi: Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) leader Upendra Kushwaha on Monday quit the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and resigned as a Minister in the Modi government. Kushwaha, who has been at loggerheads with the BJP for some time, sent his resignation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying he (Modi) had failed to live […]
Srinagar: A Pakistani commander of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror outfit and two Kashmiri militants were killed by the Indian forces in an 18-hour-long gun battle that ended on Sunday here in the outskirts of the Jammu and Kashmir capital, police said. The exact identity of the slain militants was being ascertained. An Indian soldier, a […]
Washington: India is expected to receive a total remittance of $80 billion in 2018, said the latest edition of the World Bank’s Migration and Development Brief, released on Saturday. “Among major remittance recipients, India retains its top spot, with remittances expected to total $80 billion this year, followed by China ($67 billion), Mexico and the […]
New Delhi: India and Iceland discussed cooperation in geothermal energy among other areas during a bilateral meeting between External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Icelandic Foreign Minister Gudlaugur Thor Thordarson here on Saturday. “The two Ministers noted that in the areas such as geothermal energy, fisheries, IT, pharmaceuticals and tourism, both countries could establish strong […]
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday transferred Bulandshahr Senior Superintendent of Police Krishna Bahadur Singh and attached him to the office of the Director General of Police here, a Home Department official said on Saturday. The state government has named Prabhakar Chowdhary as the new district police chief of Bulandshahr. Two more police officials […]
Lucknow: Two coaches of a goods train derailed in Uttar Pradesh’s Farukkhabad district on Saturday, a railway official said. The incident took place near Rajepur village, 1 kilometre from the Kamalganj station at around 6.15 a.m. As a result, rail traffic on the Farukhabad-Kanpur route has been disrupted. The train’s guard has been seriously injured […]
Ayodhya: Heavy security deployment has been made in this temple town in Uttar Pradesh on the 26th anniversary of the razing of the 16th century Babri Masjid by a Hindu mob. Major roads have been barricaded and vigil has been stepped up around the disputed site. People visiting the temple of Ram Lalla, that was […]
Lucknow: The family of slain Uttar Pradesh Police Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh, who was killed allegedly by cow vigilantes in Bulandshahr, met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath here on Thursday and was promised all help for his sons to pursue their education. Adityanath met Sunita, the deceased officer’s wife, and her two sons Shreya and Abhishek […]
New Delhi: The survivors of the MeToo movement that took Bollywood and the media industry by storm in the country were named “Personality of the Year 2018” by search engine major Yahoo India on Tuesday. In its “2018 Year in Review” for India (YIR) report, the company said Prime Minister Narendra Modi once again grabbed […]
Bulandshahr: Three leaders from the Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and BJP have been named in the FIR lodged by police in the violence that rocked Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh killing a police officer and a young man, authorities said on Tuesday. VHP activist Upendra Raghav, BJP city youth wing President Shikhar Agarwal and […]
New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday told the people of Telangana that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi are all “alike” and urged the voters not to be fooled by the lot in the upcoming Assembly polls on December 7. Gandhi said that the Telangana […]
Hyderabad: “India is my father’s country. Nobody can force me flee,” was how MIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday reacted to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s comment that if BJP comes to power in the Telangana, Owaisi will have to flee. “It is my religious belief that Prophet Adam when he descended on the […]
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