Bengal Polls: Trinamool's candidate list out, Mamata Banerjee to contest only from Nandigram
Mar 05, 2021, at 09:09 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal's ruling party Trinamool Congress Friday released the list of candidates for 291 of total 294 seats, which will witness the high-octane assembly polls in eight phases from Mar 27 to Apr 29.
Sushant Singh Rajput death case: NCB names Rhea Chakraborty, 32 others in chargesheet
Mar 05, 2021, at 07:05 pm
Mumbai/IBNS: The anti-drug agency or Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Friday named actor Rhea Chakraborty, her brother Showik and 31 others in a chargesheet filed in connection with the death case of Bollywood star Sushant Singh Rajput.
Party leaders defecting due to disrespect: Trinamool Congress MP Satabdi Roy turns rebel again
Mar 05, 2021, at 06:51 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: With barely few weeks left for the West Bengal polls to start, Trinamool Congress MP Satabdi Roy Friday said disrespect was one of the reasons for which several leaders have deserted the ruling party over the last few months.
Kashmir: Security forces launch CASO in Baramulla
Mar 05, 2021, at 06:21 pm
Srinagar/UNI: Security forces on Friday launched a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) in north Kashmir district of Baramulla.
Kashmir: Militants hurl grenade on security forces party in Kupwara
Mar 05, 2021, at 06:18 pm
Srinagar/UNI: The militants on Friday made an abortive bid to attack a security forces Quick Reaction Team (QRT) vehicle in the frontier district of Kupwara by hurling a hand grenade, official sources said.
Mamata Banerjee to announce Trinamool Congress' candidate list for Bengal polls today
Mar 05, 2021, at 04:57 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will Friday announce her party Trinamool Congress' candidate list for the upcoming, high-octane West Bengal polls.
Indian Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria visits Sri Lanka, meets PM Mahinda Rajapaksha
Mar 05, 2021, at 06:23 am
Colombo: Indian Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria arrived in Sri Lankan city of Colombo on Wednesday on an invitation from Air Marshal Sudarshana Pathirana, Commander of Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF).
BJP still undecided about projecting 'metro man' E Sreedharan as CM candidate in Kerala polls
Mar 05, 2021, at 06:13 am
Thiruvananthapuram/IBNS: The Kerala BJP has taken a U-turn hours after tweeting that India's 'metro man' E Sreedharan, who joined the party last week, will be its chief ministerial candidate in the assembly elections next month, according to media reports.
Jammu and Kashmir: Darakhshan thanks LG Sinha for releasing dues of contractors
Mar 05, 2021, at 05:35 am
Srinagar: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokeswoman Darakhshan Andrabi Wednesday thanked Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha for taking the much awaited decision of releasing huge payments to the contractors who had undertaken macadamisation works for Jammu and Kashmir government for many years.
Youm-e-Block observed across Kashmir
Mar 05, 2021, at 05:30 am
Srinagar: As part of Governments ambitious Jan Abhiyan programme, the Block Divas or Youm-e-Block was today observed with great enthusiasm across all the districts of Kashmir division.
Director Horticulture Kashmir visits Kupwara, Baramulla
Mar 05, 2021, at 05:27 am
Srinagar: To review various ongoing developmental schemes/projects in North Kashmir, Director Horticulture Kashmir, Ajaz Ahmad Bhat today visited District Kupwara and Baramulla.
25-30 deaths in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla due to road accidents every year: ARTO
Mar 05, 2021, at 05:25 am
Srinagar: Aarifeen School of Excellence, Delina Baramulla in collaboration with Regional Transport office Baramulla organized a day-long seminar on Road Safety in the main auditorium of the school here on Wednesday.
Jammu and Kashmir: DGP sanctions over Rs 1 crore relief for NoKs of deceased police personnel/SPO
Mar 05, 2021, at 05:20 am
Srinagar: Director General of Police Dilbag Singh has sanctioned over rupees one crore as Special Welfare Relief under different orders of PHQ for NoKs of deceased police personnel/SPO, who expired while in service.
Jammu and Kashmir: Artisan awareness camp held at Budgam
Mar 05, 2021, at 05:10 am
Srinagar: Continuing the awareness drive for the artisans, weavers and the target groups associated with the cooperatives, Department of Handicrafts & Handloom Budgam organised a mega awareness camp at Brari Pathri Kani Dagan Char-e-Shareef in which 300 artisans and weavers of the adjacent areas participated.
Jammu and Kashmir: LG Manoj Sinha attends passing out ceremony of Forest Guards
Mar 05, 2021, at 05:07 am
Srinagar: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Thursday paid homage to all the martyrs of the Forest Department who have laid down their lives and made supreme sacrifice in the line of duty.
Jammu and Kashmir LG Manoj Sinha delivers valedictory address at Visva-Bharati Santiniketan
Mar 05, 2021, at 05:01 am
Srinagar: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today delivered his valedictory address through a video message at 8th Indian Social Work Congress jointly organized by National Association of Professional Social Workers in India (NAPSWI), International Consortium for Social Development-AsiaPacific (ICSDAP) & Department of Social Work, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan.
OTT platforms even show porn: Supreme Court says favouring regulation of contents
Mar 05, 2021, at 04:51 am
New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court of India on Thursday said there should be a screening of video content offered by OTT (Over-the-top) platforms for regulatory mechanisms and added that "even pornographic material is being shown" on some of them.
Found evidence of huge suppressed income: IT officials on Anurag Kashyap, Taapsee Pannu raids
Mar 05, 2021, at 04:37 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Facing criticisms, the Income Tax Department on Thursday informed that they have recovered irregularities worth crores of rupees in ongoing raids on filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, actor Taapsee Pannu and others, who are the biggest critics of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Congress promises to set up ministry for job creation if voted to power
Mar 05, 2021, at 04:31 am
Guwahati/IBNS: The opposition Congress on Thursday promised to set up a ministry for job creation if the party comes to power.
Mar 05, 2021, at 03:26 am
Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA from Bankura's Taldangra, Samir Chakraborty, on Thursday evening shared his unwillingness to contest in the forthcoming West Bengal assembly election.
Shiv Sena to not contest Bengal polls, extends support to Mamata Banerjee's TMC
Mar 05, 2021, at 02:02 am
Kolkata/UNI: The ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal has welcomed Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray's decision to back out from the poll and extend his support to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the 294-seat elections.
Jharkhand CM condemns Chaibasa blast, asks ultras to shun violence and return to mainstream of life
Mar 05, 2021, at 01:28 am
Ranchi/UNI: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Thursday condemned IED blast in Chaibasa's Lanji forest under Tokalo police station area of the West Singhbhum district by the Maoists in which three jawans of the Jharkhand Jaguar were martyred.
Ratan Tata pays tribute to Tata Group founder Jamsetji Tata on his 182nd anniversary
Mar 05, 2021, at 12:25 am
Jamshedpur/IBNS: Tata Sons, Chairman Emeritus, Ratan Tata paid tributes to Tata Group founder Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata on his 182nd birth anniversary in the steel city.
Maoist IED blast in Jharkhand kills 3 policemen, injure two
Mar 05, 2021, at 12:19 am
Chaibasa, Jharkhand/UNI: Three jawans of Jharkhand Jaguar, a special task force, were martyred on Thursday while two others were injured as ultras of the proscribed CPI (Maoist) executed an IED blast in Lanji forest under Tokalo police station area of the West Singhbhum district.
US welcomes India's steps to return Jammu and Kashmir to normalcy
Mar 05, 2021, at 12:13 am
New Delhi/UNI: The Joe Biden administration is closely following developments in Jammu and Kashmir and welcomes steps taken by the Narendra Modi government to restore full economic and political normalcy in the Union Territory, consistent with India’s democratic values, says the US State Department.
India to focus connectivity with Bangladesh
Mar 05, 2021, at 12:07 am
New Delhi/UNI: Connectivity with Bangladesh will be India's major focus for the next 20 years to change the region’s geo-economic scenario, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday.
Russia, India agree to create target group for gas
Mar 04, 2021, at 11:38 pm
Moscow/New Delhi/IBNS: Russia and India have agreed to create a target working group for gas, which will operate in the framework of the working group for cooperation in the sphere of energy and energy efficiency of the India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological, and Cultural Cooperation.
Singer Aditi Munshi joins Trinamool Congress in poll-bound West Bengal
Mar 04, 2021, at 11:16 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Popular singer Aditi Munshi Thursday became another celebrity to join the ruling Trinamool Congress in poll-bound West Bengal.
Coal scam: CBI questions three senior railway officials in Kolkata
Mar 04, 2021, at 11:16 pm
Kolkata/UNI: The CBI probing the coal scam on Thursday quizzed three senior Indian Railways officers at its city office, official sources said.
37 pc of Bengal's sitting MLAs have criminal cases, 34 pc are decamillionaires: Report
Mar 04, 2021, at 09:52 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Weeks ahead of the Bengal assembly elections, Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and West Bengal Election Watch have published an analysis of criminal background, financial, education, gender and other details of the state's sitting MLAs which has revealed that 37 per cent of them have declared criminal cases against themselves.