Tripura to vote on Feb 16, Meghalaya-Nagaland to elect new Assembly on Feb 27
Jan 18, 2023, at 08:56 pm
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Wednesday announced the Assembly election dates for Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura.
CPI-M wants voting facilities for TSR jawans posted outside in Tripura poll
Jan 18, 2023, at 07:45 pm
Agartala/UNI: CPI-M state secretary Jitendra Chaudhury on Wednesday wrote to the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Tripura Kiran Gitte asking to arrange voting of Tripura State Rifles (TSR) jawans who have been under deputation outside the state.
TMC opposes Election Commission's proposed plan to introduce remote voting
Jan 18, 2023, at 07:34 pm
Kolkata/UNI: West Bengal ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) has opposed the ECI's proposed plan to introduce remote voting to improve the voter participation, saying a hasty decision to chart into the territory of remote voting will have potentially damaging effects.
Refrain from making unnecessary comments on films: Modi to BJP workers amid Pathaan row
Jan 18, 2023, at 06:27 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers to refrain from making "unnecessary comments on films or personalities" in the backdrop of the controversy over Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's upcoming film Pathaan, media reports said.
RJD issues notice to party MLA Sudhakar Singh for anti-Nitish Kumar statements
Jan 18, 2023, at 05:47 pm
Patna/UNI: On the directive of party supremo Lalu Prasad, RJD issued notice to its MLA and former Minister Sudhakar Singh for his repeated statements against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and the Grand Alliance government headed by him.
Jan 18, 2023, at 03:17 pm
New Delhi: Narendra Modi will visit Karnataka and Maharashtra on Thursday.
CMs from Delhi and Punjab arrive to participate in BRS public meeting
Jan 18, 2023, at 02:15 pm
Hyderabad: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann, arrived in Hyderabad on Tuesday evening to participate in the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Party’s inaugural Public Meeting to be held at Khammam on Wednesday.
'BJP no longer mere political party but a social movement': PM Modi at national executive meet
Jan 18, 2023, at 07:31 am
New Delhi/IBNS/UNI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members to reach out to every section of society and ensure that they dedicate about 400 days towards working for society before the Lok Sabha elections in 2024.
Online platforms to remove content flagged by govt's fact-checking mechanisms: new IT draft rules
Jan 18, 2023, at 07:13 am
New Delhi: Online platforms in India have to pull down content if flagged as fake or false by the Centre’s fact-checking mechanisms, as per the revised draft amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021.
Jan 18, 2023, at 06:49 am
Lucknow/UNI: The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court has dismissed the application of Delhi Chief Minister and national convener of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Arvind Kejriwal for quashing the entire criminal proceedings against him in a case related to violation of the model code of conduct in the year 2014.
Mamata Banerjee to launch campaign in Meghalaya’s Garo Hills
Jan 18, 2023, at 06:24 am
Shillong/UNI: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee will launch her election campaign on Wednesday in the Garo Hills region, which is considered the heartland of the Congress, in Meghalaya.
Man, faking UAE royal links, flees Delhi 5-star hotel leaving 23 lakhs bill
Jan 18, 2023, at 05:47 am
New Delhi/IBNS: A man, who pretended to be an employee of the Abu Dhabi royal family, to stay at a luxury hotel in Delhi for four months, vanished after racking up a bill of Rs. 23 lakhs.
Jan 18, 2023, at 04:11 am
London: British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has ordered the extradition of Sanjay Bhandari, an accused middleman and consultant in arms deals, for trial in an Indian court in tax evasion and money laundering cases, media reported.
Archaeological Survey of India to restart excavation at Delhi’s Purana Qila again
Jan 18, 2023, at 03:34 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is all set to begin excavation at Delhi’s Purana Qila again.
'Dawood Ibrahim remarried, second wife Pakistani pathan': Nephew Alishah Parkar tells NIA
Jan 18, 2023, at 02:47 am
Mumbai/IBNS: In a sensational revelation to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Alishah Parkar, son of Haseena Parkar, and Dawood Ibrahim's nephew, has claimed that the fugitive underworld gangster has remarried a Pakistani Pathan woman while still being married to his first wife Maizabin.
Passenger opens emergency exit of IndiGo flight, DGCA orders probe
Jan 18, 2023, at 02:44 am
New Delhi: A passenger on an IndiGo, Chennai-Tiruchirappalli flight opened the emergency exit on December 10 last year, DGCA said in a communication on Tuesday, adding that it has taken due note of the incident and ordered a probe into it, media reported.
Conduct verification of border dwellers: J&K top cop directs team ahead of Republic Day
Jan 18, 2023, at 01:25 am
Jammu/UNI: Ahead of Republic Day celebrations, Senior Superintendent of Police, Samba Benam Tosh has directed his team to conduct verification of border residents living close to the proximity of the international border.
Jan 18, 2023, at 12:29 am
New Delhi: Indo-French Astronomy science vision for the next decade and multiwavelength synergy science in mega-projects was discussed at the Indo-French focus meeting on ‘Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO)/ Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer (MSE) and multiwavelength synergies’ recently with a goal to establish a comprehensive long-term partnership in the field of astronomy.
JP Nadda's tenure as BJP president extended till June 2024 ahead of upcoming polls in several states
Jan 17, 2023, at 11:54 pm
New Delhi: As elections are coming up in nine states, the BJP on Tuesday extended the tenure of JP Nadda as the party president till June 2024.
G-20 : Telangana DGP holds high level security coordination meeting
Jan 17, 2023, at 11:51 pm
Hyderabad: A high-level Security Coordination meeting was held on Tuesday under the Chairmanship of Telangana DGP Anjani Kumar to successfully conduct the most prestigious G-20 Working Group meetings to be held here from January 28 to June 17.
LG is not my headmaster, says CM Arvind Kejriwal
Jan 17, 2023, at 10:15 pm
New Delhi: Delhi Lieutenant Governor is not my headmaster who checks my homework, I am the representative of the people who have elected me as Delhi Chief Minister, said Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi Assembly on Tuesday.
Jammu and Kashmir: 2 LeT militants killed in Budgam
Jan 17, 2023, at 10:01 pm
Srinagar: Two suspected militants of Lashkar-e-Taiba were killed in a brief shooting in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam district on Tuesday morning.
Chief of Defence Staff visits NCC Republic Day Camp
Jan 17, 2023, at 09:54 pm
New Delhi: Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM SM, VSM visited the NCC Republic Day Camp 2023 at Delhi Cantt in New Delhi on Jan 17.
Jan 17, 2023, at 08:38 pm
Islamabad: Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif has offered to hold serious and sincere talks with Indian counterpart Narendra Modi with issues even ranging to Jammu and Kashmir.
Uttar Pradesh: One arrested for attack on VHP leaders
Jan 17, 2023, at 07:28 pm
Mahoba/UNI: One person has been arrested in connection with the attack on the district president and other office-bearers of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) in Bhatipura area of Mahoba here in Uttar Pradesh, a senior officer said here on Tuesday.
Assam govt undertakes survey of all madrassas
Jan 17, 2023, at 07:25 pm
Guwahati/UNI: The Assam government is undertaking a survey of all madrassas in the state in order to merge the smaller one which according to police is the hotbed for spreading radicalism with the bigger madrassas.
PM Modi to address concluding session of BJP National Executive meeting
Jan 17, 2023, at 06:10 pm
New Delhi/UNI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the concluding session of the BJP National Executive meeting on Tuesday.
Kashmir: Two militants killed in Budgam, say police
Jan 17, 2023, at 05:57 pm
Srinagar/UNI: Two suspected militants were killed in a brief shooting in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam district on Tuesday morning.
Delhi court allows ED to interrogate Satyendar Jain, two others in money laundering
Jan 17, 2023, at 06:06 am
New Delhi/UNI: A Delhi on Monday after hearing the request on behalf of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) allowed the interrogation of two accused Vaibhav Jain and Ankush Jain, who was arrested along with Health Minister Satyendar Jain.
Jan 17, 2023, at 04:45 am
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday assured necessary help to assist singer Arijit Singh in building a hospital in Murshidabad's Jangipur.