Karnataka Congress MLA in hospital, party denies brawl allegations
Jan 20, 2019, at 05:49 pm
Bengaluru, Jan 20 (IBNS): The Congress on Sunday tried to establish all was well in the party here even as an MLA was admitted to a private hospital after allegedly being hit on the head by a colleague.
Congress best-equipped to lead anti-BJP alliance: Tejashwi Yadav
Jan 20, 2019, at 05:01 pm
New Delhi, Jan 20 (IBNS): RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday said the Congress was "best-equipped" to lead the alliance of anti-BJP parties.
Assam: Four arrested for 13-year-old girl's gang-rape
Jan 20, 2019, at 04:55 pm
Guwahati, Jan 20 (IBNS): Police had arrested four persons who allegedly raped a 13-year-old minor girl in Assam’s Hojai district.
Opposition alliance with each other, our alliance with 1.25 crore Indians: Narendra Modi
Jan 20, 2019, at 04:23 pm
New Delhi, Jan 20 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asserted that the BJP should not be bothered by the grand alliance because while its members have made alliance with each other, the ruling party at the Centre was in an alliance with the people of India.
Madhya Pradesh BJP leader found dead in Barwani open field
Jan 20, 2019, at 03:00 pm
Bhopal, Jan 20 (IBNS): Madhya Pradesh BJP leader Manoj Thackeray was found dead in an open field in Barwani on Sunday.
Felt like chopping off Ram Kripal Yadav's hand when he joined BJP: Misha Bharti
Jan 20, 2019, at 01:50 pm
Patna, Jan 20 (IBNS): Former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad's daughter and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Misha Bharti has said that she wanted to chop off Union Minister Ram Kripal Yadav’s hands after he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), media reports said.
Anna Hazare turns heat on Modi govt. over Lokpal, announces fast from Jan 30
Jan 20, 2019, at 12:35 pm
Hyderabad, Jan 20 (IBNS) Social activist Anna Hazare, whose fast unto death movement against corruption in 2011 led to the political rise of Aam Aadmi Party and its chief Arvind Kejriwal, will begin another hunger strike from Jan 30 for the Modi government's inability to appoint a Lokpal at the centre.
Massive fire breaks out in Kolkata's Gariahat market, firefighting ops underway
Jan 20, 2019, at 11:16 am
Kolkata, Jan 20 (IBNS): As many as 20 fire tenders and hundreds of staffers from fire and rescue departments are currently continuing a major firefighting operation at south Kolkata's Gariahat area, nearly 10 hours after a multi-storey caught fire at the area, officials said.
BJP lawmaker makes offensive comments against Mayawati
Jan 20, 2019, at 11:02 am
Lucknow, Jan 20 (IBNS): A huge controversy broke after a lawmaker of the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh targeted Mayawati and said the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief "sold her dignity for power."
Kerala nun rape case: Protesting nuns appeal to CM Vijayan against transfer
Jan 19, 2019, at 11:46 pm
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 19 (IBNS): Nuns, who had protested against Jalandhar Bishop Franco Mulakkal for raping a nun, have appealed to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan against their transfer, media reports said.
Modi a publicity PM, not performing PM: Chandrababu Naidu at United India rally in Kolkata
Jan 19, 2019, at 07:38 pm
Kolkata, Jan 19 (IBNS): Andhra Pradesh chief minister and TDP supremo N. Chandrababu Naidu on Saturday said Narendra Modi was a "publicity PM" and not a "performing PM".
Mamata unites anti-BJP Opposition in historic Kolkata rally, sounds oust-Modi bugle
Jan 19, 2019, at 06:33 pm
Kolkata, Jan 19 (IBNS): Sounding the final poll bugle, a line of opposition party leaders on Saturday attended West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's 'United India' rally at the iconic Brigade Parade Ground here, and called for the ouster of the Narendra Modi government to "save India" even as they maintained a diplomatic silence on who could be the Prime Minister if a non-BJP-non-Congress coalition gain power in New Delhi.
Anti-BJP grand alliance is anti-people: Narendra Modi
Jan 19, 2019, at 06:32 pm
Silvassa, Jan 19 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the grand alliance of regional parties was not only against him but also against the people of this country.
Guwahati railway station gets 100-feet high tricolour
Jan 19, 2019, at 06:13 pm
Guwahati, Jan 19 (IBNS): A 100-foot Tricolour has been hoisted at the Guwahati railway station, one of the busiest railway stations in the North Eastern region.
Narcotics worth crores seized in Manipur
Jan 19, 2019, at 05:30 pm
Guwahati, Jan 19 (IBNS): Assam Rifles seized a large quantity of contraband drugs worth of several crores of rupees in Manipur on Friday evening, officials said on Saturday.
India deports 21 more Bangladeshi nationals through Assam’s Karimganj
Jan 19, 2019, at 05:23 pm
Guwahati, Jan 19 (IBNS): While the updating of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) ison in Assam to detect the illegal foreigners, the Assam government today has deported 21 Bangladeshi nationals back to their country.
Jan 19, 2019, at 05:07 pm
Kolkata, Jan 19 (IBNS): Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party supremo Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said the BJP, in it's 4.5 years of rule, had managed to do what Pakistan couldn't in the 70 years since India's Independence.
Delhi court raps police for filing Kanhaiya Kumar chargesheet without govt approval
Jan 19, 2019, at 04:36 pm
New Delhi, Jan 19 (IBNS): A Delhi court today criticised the police for filing a chargesheet against former Jawaharlal Nehru University students' union leader Kahnaiya Kumar without acquiring the requisite approval from the Delhi government, reports said.
Situation now worse than Emergency: Mamata Banerjee
Jan 19, 2019, at 04:06 pm
Kolkata, Jan 19 (IBNS): Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said she had seen many leaders in India but never one as dictatorial as Narendra Modi.
People will say 'chowkidaar chor hai' until Modi answers Rafale questions: Shatrughan Sinha
Jan 19, 2019, at 03:37 pm
Kolkata, Jan 19 (IBNS): Dissident BJP leader and film actor Shatrughan Sinha on Saturday said the country could continue to say "chowkidaar chor hai" to Prime Minister Narendra Modi until he clearly answers questions related to the Rafale issue.
Modi's expiry date has come: Mamata at united India rally in Kolkata
Jan 19, 2019, at 03:35 pm
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said the expiry date of Narendra Modi has come as he attacked the Prime Minister virulently and said he crossed the "laxman rekha" of politics but targetting all Opposition leaders.
PM Modi inaugurates gun-making unit in Surat
Jan 19, 2019, at 03:08 pm
Surat, Jan 19 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated the howitzer gun-making unit of Larsen and Toubro (L&T) at Hazira in Surat.
2019 battle is to restore nation's faith in democracy: Sonia in message to Brigade
Jan 19, 2019, at 02:49 pm
Kolkata, Jan 19 (IBNS): Congress' former president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday skipped West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's mega rally at the icnonic Brigade Parade Ground here but sent a message through her senior leader Mallikarjun Kharge.
Living as refugees in their own land, Kashmir Pandits await justice 30 years since their exodus
Jan 19, 2019, at 02:29 pm
New Delhi, Jan 19 (IBNS) "A Kashmiri Muslim for Kashmiri Pandits-apologize on behalf of some of my Kashmiri brethren for the sin of murdering Kashmiriyat. It is not enough, but acceptance, introspection & realization are the first steps towards reconciliation." This tweet by Junaid Qureshi, a Kashmiri Muslim who is now a director at a think tank group based in Amsterdam, perhaps is a small but significant expression of acknowledgement of what had happened to the original inhabitants of Kashmir- the Kashmiri pandits- in 1989-90.
Mamata reaches Brigade Parade ground to preside over mega anti-BJP rally
Jan 19, 2019, at 11:54 am
Kolkata, Jan 19 (IBNS): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday reached the iconic Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata and began the proceedings of a mega rally of all anti-BJP leaders who descended on the eastern city to launch a campaign to oust the Modi government in the upcoming general elections.
Karnataka: Congress lodges MLA in resort to avoid BJP poaching
Jan 18, 2019, at 11:50 pm
Bengaluru, Jan 18 (IBNS): The Congress has lodged all its MLAs who had come to the legislative party meeting earlier this morning, in the Eagleton Resort on the city outskirts to keep them safe from BJP poaching.
Defence minister Sitharaman visits Arunachal Pradesh
Jan 18, 2019, at 11:12 pm
Guwahati, Jan 18 (IBNS): Union defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday visited the forward areas along the India-China border in Dibang Valley of Arunachal Pradesh.
AGP takes out torch rally in Guwahati against Citizenship bill
Jan 18, 2019, at 11:01 pm
Guwahati, Jan 18 (IBNS): Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) took out a torch rally to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016 in Guwahati on Friday evening.
Jammu & Kashmir: Ten feared dead in Khardung La avalanche
Jan 18, 2019, at 10:46 pm
Srinagar, Jan 18 (IBNS): Ten people are feared dead after a avalanche buried two trucks Ladakh's Khardung La region, The Indian Express said this evening.
Four Karnataka MLAs stay from Congress meet
Jan 18, 2019, at 09:26 pm
Bengaluru, Jan 18 (IBNS): Four Congress MLA remained away from a Congress Legislative Party meeting here on Friday adding fuel to speculations that the BJP is trying to topple its government led by H.D.Kumaraswamy of the Janata Dal (Secular).