New Delhi, Aug 17 — Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) launched a scathing attack at senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram on Monday, over his remark that he was "proud to be a dimagi Naxal", asserting that the Maoism problem, which the Congress-led UPA governments had failed to eradicate, was brought…
New Delhi, Aug 17 — Expressing serious displeasure, the World Bank has warned the Pakistan government that redirecting funds from a multi-billion-rupee resilient housing programme for the flood-affected population in Balochistan to infrastructure projects would further aggravate poverty in the…
Kolkata, Aug 17 — After seven people died in a devastating hotel fire at Tarapith in West Bengal's Birbhum district, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator from Rampurhat Assembly Constituency, Dhruba Saha, accused the local development authority of giving permission to the hotel against…
Gandhinagar, Aug 17 — Gujarat Police will seek to integrate more than 80,000 CCTV cameras across the state into a single surveillance network as part of a nationwide innovation challenge aimed at developing Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tools for policing and public safety.The Gujarat Police…
Patna, Aug 17 — Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar visited Nalanda on Monday and interacted with Booth Level Officers (BLOs) from five districts during a programme at the Sushma Swaraj Auditorium of Nalanda University.Around 500 BLOs from Nalanda, Gaya, Nawada, Jehanabad and Sheikhpura…
Mumbai, Aug 17 — In a decisive move aimed at dispelling weeks of intense political rumour-mongering, Nationalist Congress Party (SP) chief, Sharad Pawar, has explicitly informed party workers that the organisation will remain firmly in the Opposition and not join the NDA. Speaking during a crucial…
Ranchi, Aug 17 — Amid the ongoing student agitation in Jharkhand, the Congress on Monday said that the legitimate demands of students must be addressed promptly and called for comprehensive reforms in the examination system to prevent irregularities in recruitment examinations. K. Raju, Congress…
Bengaluru, Aug 17 — The Karnataka government on Monday gave a statement in the Legislative Assembly saying that three poachers were killed in Chamarajanagar reserve forest after the forest department personnel opened fire in self-defence when the hunters shot at them.Responding to BJP leaders in…
Guwahati, Aug 17 — The Assam government will honour 1,000 progressive and educated farmers with a cash award of Rs 1 lakh each this year under the newly announced Chief Minister’s Agriculture Excellence Award, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Monday. Speaking to reporters here, CM Sarma said the…
Gandhinagar, Aug 17 — More than 10 lakh girls studying in Classes 6 to 12 in the government-run schools will receive free sanitary napkins every month under the Gujarat government initiative, aimed at improving menstrual hygiene and reducing disruption to girls’ education.The Education Department…
Mumbai, Aug 17 — Auto-rickshaw and taxi drivers in Maharashtra who have no functional knowledge of Marathi will now face direct enforcement action, including potential license suspension or cancellation. The Maharashtra State Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik on Monday confirmed that the 105-day…
Bhopal, Aug 17 — The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a detailed 636-page chargesheet in the high-profile case related to the suicide of Twisha Sharma. The agency has named former judge Giribala Singh and her son, Samarth Singh, as the accused. Both are currently lodged in jail under…
Kolkata, Aug 17 — The Special Task Force (STF) of West Bengal Police has arrested two persons on charges of attempting to create a jihadi module in the state after being inspired by the ideology of Al Qaeda, the police said on Monday.On receiving a tip-off from a secret source, the STF officers…
Greater Noida, Aug 17 — The Uttar Pradesh Police on Monday launched a probe into the circulation of some ‘fake and misleading’ videos of waterlogging at Noida International Airport during the recent incessant rainfall. The police also lodged a case against a Facebook account operating under the…
New Delhi, Aug 17 — India highlighted on Monday that the BRICS alliance has expanded from an economic dialogue into an increasingly influential platform for defining its approach to the critical challenges facing the environment, including pressing global issues of increasing pollution,…
Bengaluru, Aug 17 — The BJP on Monday raised the issue of the encounter deaths of three poachers in a reserve forest in Chamarajanagar district in the Legislative Assembly, alleging that the government had committed “murders in the name of an encounter.”The BJP also demanded a statement from the…
Patna, Aug 17 — A serious road accident occurred near Pillar No. 19 on the 90-Feet Bypass under Patrakar Nagar police station limits in Patna, Bihar, on Monday. Three youths riding a motorcycle and an elderly pedestrian were injured in the collision, with three of the injured reported to be in…
Bengaluru, Aug 17 — Karnataka Police have arrested JD(S) General Secretary Manjunath C., aka Gottigere Manjanna (65), for assaulting a traffic cop on duty in broad daylight, police said on Monday.A video purportedly showing the incident has also gone viral on social media. The visuals of the…
New Delhi, Aug 17 — President of India Droupadi Murmu and Vice-President C.P. Radhakrishnan on Monday described the stampede incident in Bihar’s Lakhisarai, in which seven devotees were killed and over 13 injured, as heartbreaking and expressed their condolences to the bereaved families. They also…
New Delhi, Aug 17 — An Indian Army contingent left for Thailand on Monday, where it will participate in 15th edition of India-Thailand Joint Military Exercise MAITREE-XV, slated to be held from August 18 to 31 at Vibhavadi Rangsit Camp in Surat Thani. The bilateral military exercise is aimed at…
New Delhi, Aug 17 — Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Monday that the government will soon announce the composition of a high-powered committee to recommend how the banking sector should play its role in supporting the country’s transformation into a developed economy by 2047.Addressing…