Jaipur, Sep 14 — Jaipur Lok Sabha MP Manju Sharma expressed gratitude to the people of the city in Rajasthan following the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s victory in the Jaipur Municipal Corporation elections, saying the party received the blessings of Lord Ganesha on the auspicious occasion of…
Kolkata, Sep 14 — The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of West Bengal Police has arrested another accused in the multi-crore illegal land-grabbing case in Salboni of West Midnapore district, taking the total number of arrests in the case to three.The latest arrest is that of Amit Ghosh, a…
Jaipur, Sep 14 — BJP Rajya Sabha MP Sudhanshu Trivedi credited the party’s strong performance in the Rajasthan civic body elections to the support of voters and the efforts of BJP workers and the organisation. Speaking about the election results, Trivedi said, “Congress held the elections in…
Kolkata. Sep 14 — The "rebel but majority" faction in Trinamool Congress led by the expelled party legislator Ritabrata Banerjee on Monday announced the names of the candidates for the bypolls for Nandigram Assembly constituency in East Midnapore district and Rejinagar Assembly constituency in…
Patna, Sep 14 — Bihar Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary on Monday announced that the state government will organise a two-day Hindi Sahitya Samagam in Patna to promote the literary and cultural expansion of Hindi, marking the occasion of Hindi Diwas.Addressing the gathering, CM Choudhary said that…
Guwahati, Sep 14 — Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday welcomed the inclusion of the Guwahati Declaration in the BRICS New Delhi Declaration, describing it as a significant boost to international cooperation against narcotics trafficking. The Guwahati Declaration, adopted by the…
Bengaluru, Sep 14 — Congress' Karnataka President B.K. Hariprasad has reportedly expressed serious displeasure over not being invited to the dais during the 100-day celebration of the D.K. Shivakumar-led state government, party sources said on Monday.Hariprasad, who is also a Congress MLC, is said…
New Delhi, Sep 14 — Former Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) president and senior professor Aditya Narayan Mishra on Monday joined the Congress along with several prominent academicians, promising to revive the “crumbling” education system. The teachers’ organisation Academics for…
Kolkata, Sep 14 — The West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday announced the names of a new set of state spokespersons as well as the members of the party's media, Information Technology and social media cells in the state. As regards to the BJP's media cell in the state, Anupam Ghosh…
Jaipur, Sep 14 — The civic body election results in Rajasthan's Tonk district have redrawn local political equations, with the Congress retaining control of the Tonk Municipal Council, while the BJP emerged dominant across five other municipalities, underlining its growing footprint in the…
Dehradun, Sep 14 — Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Monday directed officials to ensure the prompt, timely and satisfactory resolution of public grievances received through the CM Helpline ('1905'). Reviewing the helpline's functioning at the Secretariat, CM Dhami stressed that…
New Delhi, Sep 14 — Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajya Sabha MP Sudhanshu Trivedi on Monday sharply criticised Rahul Gandhi and the Congress, accusing him of putting up a "charade" of championing students' interests that would collapse once facts emerged. He linked the recent recruitment…
Kozhikode Sep 14 — Kerala Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan on Monday met Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and discussed ways to expand cooperation between Kerala and Malaysia in information technology, sustainable tourism, higher education, and trade.Satheesan described the meeting, which lasted…
New Delhi, Sep 14 — Actor-turned politician Mithun Chakraborty, who is set to don the role of policymaker (Cultural Advisor) in Suvendu Adhikari-led West Bengal government, supported the administration’s clampdown on the unaided and unrecognised madrasas across the state, citing concerns over…
Raipur, Sep 14 — The Directorate of Enforcement's (ED) Raipur Zonal Office has arrested Chetan Borghariya, former Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in Chhattisgarh's Chief Minister's Office and currently Additional Collector of Balrampur-Ramanujganj, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA),…
Mumbai, Sep 14 — Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Monday said Hindi is not a competitor to any Indian language but a companion that connects the country's diverse linguistic traditions, saying the promotion of the official language should go hand in hand with the preservation of…
Surat, Sep 14 — Ganeshotsav celebrations in parts of Gujarat took a community-focussed turn this year, with sanitation workers felicitated in Surat, an appeal for organ donation made during the festival and traditional celebrations held in Jamnagar and Vadodara.At the Kamrej Assembly Karmayog…
Patna, Sep 14 — Floodwaters from the Ganga and several other rivers have inundated low-lying areas across Bihar, affecting lakhs of people and intensifying demands for greater government assistance. While relief and rescue operations are underway in several parts of the state, the situation has…
New Delhi, Sep 14 — A Delhi court on Monday reserved its order on the regular bail plea filed by self-styled "influencer" Swatantra Bhardwaj, who is in judicial custody in connection with the alleged assault of the father of a minor activist during a protest at Jantar Mantar. The Patiala House…
Gandhinagar, Sep 14 — Gujarat Police arrested two men in Bihar and Jharkhand in connection with an inter-state network allegedly involved in sending bomb threat e-mails, including a message threatening to blow up the Gujarat Secretariat and other high-profile institutions, officials said on Monday.…
Bhopal, Sep 14 — A fresh debate over the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) has begun in Madhya Pradesh, with Muslim leaders opposing the proposed common personal law framework and appealing to the community to participate in a September 17 protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. It has been nearly two…