New Delhi: The Election Commission latee on Saturday said its key decisions on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls had been taken with the “unanimous approval” of all three commissioners, rejecting suggestions of differences within the poll panel over the exercise. Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and…
Bhubaneshwar: The Odisha government on Saturday evacuated over 70,000 people living in low-lying areas to safety and housed them in 395 relief camps as all rivers in the state swelled due to heavy rainfall over the past few days, officials said. Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi will conduct an aerial survey of the affected areas…
Kollam (Keralam): Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Friday said women’s empowerment through cooperatives was one of the core objectives of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He was speaking after inaugurating various initiatives of cooperative societies under the National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation of India Limited (NCCF) aimed at strengthening and promoting women’ empowerment in…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday paid tribute to former prime minister Manmohan Singh on his birth anniversary and remembered his many years spent in public life, serving the nation with dedication. Singh was born on September 26, 1932 in the Punjab province of undivided India and died in New Delhi on December…
Mumbai: Chants of “Ganpati Bappa Morya” and rhythmic beats of traditional dhol-tasha reverberated across Mumbai on Friday as thousands of devotees bid an emotional farewell to Lord Ganesh on the final, 12th day of the festival. As immersion processions wound their way to seashores and artificial ponds, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said 16,154 Ganapati idols…
New Delhi: Former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said on Friday that it is his duty to tell his party (BJP) what he feels about Punjab and that does not mean he is quitting the party. He also said he is going through “difficult times” but did not elaborate further. Singh said he is 84…
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday rejected reports that President Droupadi Murmu returned the anti-goonda bill to the state government for reconsideration, and said the proposed legislation is currently “under consideration” of the home ministry. It was reported by a section of the media that the President had returned the bill, after…
Mumbai: Mumbai’s air reverberated with chants of “Ganpati Bappa Morya” and the rhythmic beats of dhol-tasha on Friday as immersion processions rolled through the city, with devotees bidding an emotional farewell to Lord Ganesh on the final day of the festival. After traditional puja and aarti in the presence of large numbers of devotees at…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asserted that the gap between cities and villages in India has significantly narrowed in the last 12 years. Interacting with participants of ‘Seva Yatra’, an ongoing motorcycle rally travelling from Varanasi to Vadnagar, Modi also said that ever since his government came to power in 2014, self-reliance…
New Delhi: The details of most of the prominent voters who received notices as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Delhi have been validated through field verification and their names reserved for inclusion in the final electoral roll, poll officials said. BJP stalwart L K Advani, former vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar,…
