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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Narendra Modi speaks to Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, discuss issue of cooperation
Mar 13, 2021, at 09:29 pm
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on phone on Saturday with Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa where the two leaders discussed the issue of cooperation between the neighbours.
Will wheelchair bound Mamata fall heavier on BJP or remain optics in Bengal Polls 2021?
Mar 13, 2021, at 09:25 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: In Indian politics, optics and emotions often play a major role. Be it the Congress' sweeping victory in 1984 General Elections post Indira Gandhi's assassination or Narendra Modi's resounding win in 2019 amid the nationalist wave after the Balakot airstrike. But simultaneously, the Indian politics is too fluid to be generalised.
Tripura: Two mentally-challenged Bangladeshi nationals handed over to their families
Mar 13, 2021, at 08:54 pm
Agartala/UNI: Two Bangladeshi nationals, who were getting treated in Modern Psychiatric Hospital here, returned home yesterday after a long time through Akhaura integrated check post.
Fire breaks out in Delhi-Dehradun Shatabdi Express, no casualties reported
Mar 13, 2021, at 08:38 pm
Dehradun/IBNS: A fire broke out in a compartment of Delhi-Dehradun Shatabdi Express near Kansrao, barely 30 km away from Dehradun, in Uttrakhannd on Saturday, reports said.
Congress releases star campaigners list for Assam polls
Mar 13, 2021, at 08:36 pm
Guwahati/IBNS: The Congress has released a list of 30 star campaigners for Assam assembly polls.
Rajasthan: Fire breaks out at hospital in Ajmer
Mar 13, 2021, at 08:33 pm
Ajmer/UNI: A fire broke out at Government Amrit Kaur Hospital at Beawar area in Ajmer district on Saturday morning.
Bomb found near Assam Rifles transit camp in Imphal
Mar 13, 2021, at 08:31 pm
Imphal/IBNS: A bomb was found near the Assam Rifle’s transit camp in Manipur's Imphal East district.
India supplies Covid-19 vaccine to 75 nations including Pakistan: Piyush Goyal
Mar 13, 2021, at 08:27 pm
Tirupati/UNI: Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday said that under the stewardship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India has developed vast capacity to manufacture major COVID-19 vaccines and become a vaccine supplier to the world.
BJP booth president killed in Assam’s Tinsukia district
Mar 13, 2021, at 08:05 pm
Guwahati/IBNS: Ahead of the assembly polls in the state, a BJP booth president was killed by miscreant in Assam’s Tinsukia district on Friday night.
Former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha joins Trinamool Congress ahead of Bengal Polls
Mar 13, 2021, at 06:58 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and an ex-Finance Minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee government, Yashwant Sinha, on Saturday joined the Trinamool Congress days ahead of the commencement of West Bengal elections.
Bengal CID makes first arrest in illegal coal mining case
Mar 13, 2021, at 06:30 pm
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Friday night nabbed a businessman in connection with its ongoing probe into an illegal coal mining scam, officials said on Saturday.