New Delhi, July 20 — A delegation from Bastar Mandal, comprising winners of Bastar Pandum 2026 -- Pargana Manjhi and Chalaki of Bastar, met President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre in the national capital on Thursday. Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Chhattisgarh Chief…
New Delhi, July 30 — Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired the fourth special meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) to review India’s preparedness amid the escalating West Asia conflict, focusing on energy supplies, fertiliser availability, and the safety of citizens and…
Bhopal, July 30 — : The Congress has set up a dedicated committee to study tribal issues across Madhya Pradesh, with Leader of the Opposition Umang Singhar announcing that the panel will undertake a state-wide exercise to gather ground-level data before presenting its findings to the BJP…
Jaipur, July 30 — Rajasthan is set to launch a simultaneous statewide campaign to destroy seized narcotics and prohibited substances, with Chief Secretary V. Srinivas directing officials to intensify enforcement against drug mafias under a zero-tolerance framework. Chairing a meeting of the Narco…
Shillong, July 30 — More than 2.24 lakh voters in Meghalaya will undergo detailed scrutiny after their electoral records could not be linked to the 2005 electoral database during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, officials said on Thursday. Announcing the completion…
Guwahati, July 30 — Leader of the Opposition in the Assam Assembly, Wazed Ali Choudhury, on Thursday urged the Centre to provide a special financial package of Rs 2,000 crore for flood-ravaged districts in the state, claiming that the scale of devastation requires massive rehabilitation efforts.…
Bengaluru, July 30 — Karnataka Leader of the Opposition, R. Ashoka, on Thursday accused the Congress government of failing once again to protect Karnataka’s interests in the Cauvery water dispute after the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) rejected the state’s appeal and retained its…
Navsari, July 30 — The Gujarat government has directed officials to complete damage assessment surveys in flood-hit villages of Navsari district in a transparent, accurate and time-bound manner, with Agriculture Minister Jitu Vaghani stating that prompt assistance to affected families remains the…
Visakhapatnam, July 30 — Former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy accused the Chandrababu government of politicising an unfortunate incident by foisting false cases against party leader and former minister Seediri Appalaraju. He alleged…
New Delhi, July 30 — Delhi Lieutenant Governor T.S. Sandhu will lead DDA’s mega plantation drive at Kamla Nehru Ridge near Delhi University on July 31, an official said. On Thursday, the Vice Chairman of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) invited citizens to join the event in large numbers, the…
Kolkata, July 30 — After receiving the state cabinet’s approval last week, a National Investigation Agency (NIA) police station has been set up in West Bengal. The state secretariat Nabanna announced the formation of this police station by issuing a notification on Thursday. The NIA had been…
Gurugram, July 30 — The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) attached Rs 94 crore kept in foreign banks in a money-laundering case involving Amira Pure Foods, whose officials were accused in a Rs 1,201.85 crore loan fraud with a consortium of banks led by Canara Bank, an official said on Thursday. With…
Hyderabad, July 30 — The sown area for the Kharif crop season in Telangana has dropped by 23.12 per cent due to deficit rainfall during the southwest monsoon under the impact of El Nino, said an expert committee appointed by the state government. According to the report, Telangana recorded 216 mm…
Datia, July 30 — Madhya Pradesh’s Datia Assembly by-election concluded peacefully on Thursday with a voter turnout of 71.44 per cent recorded till 6 p.m., nearly nine percentage points lower than the 80.2 per cent polling registered in the 2023 Assembly election, according to the Election…
New Delhi, July 30 — In a deeply moving intervention in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi delivered a strong defence of the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, highlighting the Modi government’s sensitivity towards students, its commitment to…
Jaipur, July 30 — Acting under the direction of Jaipur Police Commissioner Sachin Mittal and the supervision of Special Police Commissioner Om Prakash, the Crime Surveillance Team (CST), as part of a special drive against criminal activities, raided a fake call centre operating from the third floor…
New Delhi, July 30 — The Delhi government led by Chief Minister Rekha Gupta is set to create a modern, transparent and dispute-free land and property management system, involving the assigning of a unique ‘Property Aadhaar Card’ to all buildings, an official said on Thursday. To achieve this, it…
Jamnagar, July 30 — Construction of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Traditional Medicine Centre (GTMC) in Jamnagar is progressing, with the Rs 269.73 crore project expected to establish the city as an international hub for research into traditional medicine systems from around the…
Gandhinagar, July 30 — The Roads and Buildings Department has restored 94 per cent of the roads that were closed across the state during the recent spell of extremely heavy rainfall, with most affected routes in South Gujarat reopened within 24 to 48 hours, according to official figures released by…
Chandigarh, July 30 — Punjab Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Kewal Singh Dhillon launched a sharp attack on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government over the worsening drug menace, saying the government’s much-publicised war against drugs campaign had completely failed. He said the tragic…
Jaipur, July 30 — Jaipur will host a three-day International Conference on “Commonwealth Peace Mediation and Rule of Law” from July 31 to August 2 bringing together judges, legal experts, mediators, policymakers, academicians, and representatives from Commonwealth nations to deliberate on the…