Kolkata: After her own candidate backed out of the Nandigram bypoll, Mamata Banerjee said on Friday that her faction of the Trinamool Congress will now back the Congress nominee. She also noted she has the Congress’s support in the fight to claim the name and symbol of the party she founded in 1998: “Rahul Gandhi…
Jammu: Rajouri Police have busted an Over Ground Worker (OGW) network allegedly linked with the terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), resulting in the arrest of three accused persons. The arrested individuals have been identified as: 1. Zakir Hussain S/o Ghulam Hussain R/o Kotcharwal Teryath Rajouri. 2. Mohd Azam S/o Ali Bahadur R/o Kotcharwal Teryath Rajouri. 3….
New Delhi: Eight Bangladeshis were among nine people sentenced to life imprisonment by an NIA court in Hyderabad in a 2019 human trafficking case involving Bangladeshi women, officials said on Friday. The court on Thursday also imposed a fine of Rs 1.37 lakh on the convicts, with a further sentence of three months’ simple imprisonment…
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday slammed the Election Commission over its decision of directing rival Trinamool Congress factions to not use the party name and the “flowers and grass symbol” during the West Bengal bypolls, saying the poll body’s constitutional responsibility is to protect the mandate but instead, it is aiding those…
New Delhi: The Trinamool Congress, led by its founder and chairperson Mamata Banerjee, submitted its response to the Election Commission’s interim order that temporarily removed the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) name and its “flowers and grass” symbol from the ballot for the October 6 bypolls in West Bengal. The party emailed its choices of…
New Delhi: The Election Commission has directed rival factions of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) not to use the party name and “Flowers and Grass symbol during the West Bengal bypolls, and asked them to submit their preferred names and symbols by Friday morning. In its interim order issued on Thursday night, the Commission,…
Hyderabad: Slamming the previous BRS government in Telangana for not implementing the PM Awas Yojana, Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday said the Centre would hand over approval for the construction of 2 lakh houses under the scheme to the state government on September 18. The approval for 2 lakh houses would be the…
New Delhi: Many world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Italian PM Giorgia Meloni and Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman, wished Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 76th birthday on Thursday. US Embassy in India extended wishes to Modi too, conveying the greetings on behalf of President Donald Trump. The embassy,…
Kolkata/New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the West Bengal government aims to ensure that every eligible woman gets the benefits of the Annapurna Yojana, as the state government transferred money to 1.58 crore beneficiaries on the occasion of his birthday. Addressing a programme at Salt Lake in Kolkata, Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari…
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Maha): Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday said he would take legal action if the “character assassination” campaign targeting his family over the 2020 Disha Salian death case did not stop. The former Maharashtra Chief Minister spoke on the issue days after the Bombay High Court ordered a CBI probe into…
