Bengal polls: BJP candidate Rantidev Sengupta changes decision, to contest from Howrah Dakshin

Mar 15, 2021, at 04:34 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Reversing decision within a few hours, journalist-turned-Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) leader Rantidev Sengupta on Sunday night said that he will contest from Howrah Dakshin (South) assembly seat in the forthcoming West Bengal polls.

Mamata Banerjee's security breach in Nandigram: ECI removes Director Security, East Medinipur DM and SP

Mar 15, 2021, at 04:23 am

New Delhi/IBNS: Days after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee suffered an injury in Nandigram during her poll campaign, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday removed two senior IPS officials and an IAS officer involved in the security arrangements for the Bengal's ruling party's supremo, officials said.

Sex CD scandal: SIT to provide security to women accused

Mar 15, 2021, at 04:18 am

Bengaluru/UNI: Karnataka Minister for Home Basavaraj Bommai on Sunday directed the Special Investigation Team (SIT), formed to investigate into alleged sex-CD scandal allegedly involving former Minister Ramesh Jarkiholi, to provide security to the woman allegedly involved in the scandal.

56-day Amarnath Yatra to commence from June 28: Jammu and Kashmir LG Manoj Sinha

Mar 15, 2021, at 04:03 am

 Srinagar: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, Chairman, Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB), presided over the 40th Board Meeting held here today at Raj Bhavan.

Jammu and Kashmir: LeT militant killed in Shopian encounter; US-made M4 carbine rifle recovered

Mar 15, 2021, at 03:27 am

Srinagar/UNI: A Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant was killed in an encounter which ensued after security forces launched a Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) in south Kashmir district of Shopian on Sunday.

Arunachal CM inaugurates Don Bosco College stadium near Itanagar

Mar 15, 2021, at 03:05 am

Kolkata/ Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh): Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Saturday inaugurated a sports stadium at the Don Bosco College at Jollang near Itanagar.

BJP will form govt in Bengal by winning over 200 seats, says Amit Shah during Kharagpur roadshow

Mar 15, 2021, at 02:26 am

Kharagpur/UNI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday reiterated that BJP would form the next government in West Bengal with a win over 200 seats in the assembly polls and implement all the Central welfare schemes.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah urges people of Assam to give BJP another five years to solve infiltration issue

Mar 15, 2021, at 01:19 am

Guwahati/UNI: Union Home minister Amit Shah today urged the people of Assam to give BJP government another five years to solve the issue of infiltration.

RLSP merges with JD(U)

Mar 15, 2021, at 01:16 am

Patna/UNI: Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) president Upendra Kushwaha on Sunday announced the merger of his party with Janata Dal (United).

Bengal polls 2021: BJP fields Mamata's Singur movement commander Rabindranath Bhattacharjee

Mar 15, 2021, at 12:25 am

New Delhi/Kolkata/IBNS: The four-time TMC MLA from Singur assembly constituency and Mamata Banerjee's commander in 2008-09 Singur movement, Rabindranath Bhattacharjee, has become the 'face' of the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) in Singur in the forthcoming West Bengal polls.

Bengal wants asol poriborton: BJP candidate from Behala Purba seat Paayel Sarkar tweets

Mar 14, 2021, at 11:28 pm

Kolkata: Actress Paayel Sarkar, who will fight the West Bengal Assembly polls for Bharatiya Janata Party from politically crucial Behala Purba seat, said the state wants to see ‘Asol Poriborton’ (real change).

Amit Shah to begin campaign in poll-bound West Bengal from today

Mar 14, 2021, at 11:23 pm

Kolkata/UNI: Hoping to wrest power from the ruling-Trinamool Congress, Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah would begin poll campaign for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the poll-bound West Bengal from Sunday.

Don't want to contest in Bengal polls from any seat: BJP's Howrah Dakshin candidate Rantidev Sengupta

Mar 14, 2021, at 11:07 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Nearly an hour after the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) released its candidates' list from its national headquarter in Delhi for the third and fourth phases of forthcoming West Bengal polls, BJP candidate from Howrah Dakshin assembly seat, Rantidev Sengupta, on Sunday evening expressed his unwillingness to contest in the polls.

Mamata addresses TMC rally in Kolkata on wheelchair, her first after Nandigram incident

Mar 14, 2021, at 10:08 pm

Kolkata/UNI: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday addressed a TMC rally at Hazra in south Kolkata. The TMC chief said she would not rest any longer because of her injuries and start campaigning across Bengal to prevent the "machinators" from winning the assembly polls.

BJP names new list of 27 candidates, Babul Supriyo to contest West Bengal Assembly polls from Tollygunj seat

Mar 14, 2021, at 09:19 pm

Kolkata: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday announced another round of candidates for the West Bengal Assembly polls.

EC rejects TMC's conspiracy claim to injure Mamata in Nandigram

Mar 14, 2021, at 09:16 pm

Kolkata/UNI: The Election Commission (EC) on Sunday said there was no deliberate attempt or a conspiracy to attack Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee at Nandigram in East Midnapore district of West Bengal on March 10.

Was pronounced guilty by seekers of TRPs: Climate activist Disha Ravi

Mar 14, 2021, at 06:32 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: Twenty-two-year-old climate activist Disha Ravi, whose arrest last month earned the Delhi Police severe criticisms and triggered an international outcry about the curb on dissent in India, released her first statement on Saturday.

After injury Mamata Banerjee to lead roadshow in wheelchair today

Mar 14, 2021, at 05:19 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: Four days after Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was injured during a campaign trail in Nandigram, the Trinamool Congress supremo will attend her first public event on Sunday afternoon.

Mumbai cop arrested over alleged role in placing explosive-laden car near Mukesh Ambani's house

Mar 14, 2021, at 03:43 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested Maharashtra Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Vaze for his alleged role in placing an explosives-laden SUV car near industrialist Mukesh Ambani's house last month.

Enforcement Directorate attaches assets worth over Rs 55 Cr in a fraud case in Jharkhand

Mar 14, 2021, at 06:35 am

New Delhi, Mar 13 (UNI) Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday said that it has attached properties worth Rs 55.57 crore in a case of cheating the investors across Jharkhand and other states by a real estate company named Sanjeevani Buildcon Pvt Ltd(SBPL) which duped gullible investors in the name of giving them plots of land.

'Don't vote for BJP': Farmers' leader Rakesh Tikait tells people in his Nandigram Mahapanchayat

Mar 14, 2021, at 05:06 am

Nandigram/IBNS: Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait, who is one of the prominent faces of the farmers' protest against the three agriculture laws, is in West Bengal to hold Mahapanchayats (public meetings) to urge people to vote against the BJP in the upcoming assembly polls.

EC reschedules Tripura ADC polls due to Easter Sunday

Mar 14, 2021, at 02:47 am

Agartala/UNI: The State Election Commission has rescheduled the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (ADC) polls last night from April 4 to April 6 next following representations of several Christian organisations.

185 including 62 independent submit nomination for Tripura ADC poll

Mar 14, 2021, at 02:28 am

Agartala/UNI: As many as 185 contestants have submitted their nominations for elections to the 28-member Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (ADC) to be held on April 6, which will be scrutinised on March 15 while the last date of withdrawal has been fixed on March 17 next.

PMK deserts NDA in Puducherry

Mar 14, 2021, at 02:09 am

Puducherry/UNI: The Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) has deserted the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Puducherry and decided to fight the April 6 assembly elections here alone.

Haryana: Panic spreads after 5 live bombs found in Ambala

Mar 14, 2021, at 01:13 am

Ambala/UNI: Five live bombs were recovered in Padlu canal on the border of Ambala-Kurukshetra districts today. A bomb disposal team reached the spot and defused the bombs.

COVID: BSP chief Mayawati vaccinated

Mar 14, 2021, at 12:12 am

Lucknow/UNI: Bahujan Samaj party president Mayawati on Saturday was administered the first dose of Covid vaccine.

Farmers' leader Rakesh Tikait to hold Mahapanchayat in Nandigram against BJP

Mar 14, 2021, at 12:05 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Farmers' leader Rakesh Tikait, who is leading an massive protest against Centre's three new farm laws, will hold a Mahapanchayat in West Bengal's Nandigram, where Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee is contesting polls against BJP's Suvendu Adikari.

Kashmir: BJP files complaint against former chairman of Shia Waqf Board

Mar 13, 2021, at 11:45 pm

Srinagar/UNI: Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) Kashmir unit filed a complaint against former chairman of Shia Waqf Board, Waseem Rizvi on Saturday for hurting the sentiments of Muslims by filing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court (SC) demanding removal of 26 verses from holy Quran.

Yashwant Sinha says Mamata Banerjee offered herself as hostage in exchange for 1999 Kandahar flight passengers

Mar 13, 2021, at 10:23 pm

Kolkata: Former Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha, who joined the Trinamool Congress on Saturday, said West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee had offered herself as a hostage in exchange for the passengers of the hijacked Indian Airlines plane to Kandahar in 1999.

Jammu and Kahsmir: Grenade attack on Police Post in Sopore, no injury reported

Mar 13, 2021, at 09:47 pm

Baramulla/UNI: Suspected militants lobbed a hand grenade towards a Police Post in apple township of Sopore in this district of north Kashmir on Saturday afternoon, official sources said.