New Delhi: (Jun 27) The BJP on Friday appointed ‘state election officers’ to oversee its organisational elections in Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal. Union ministers Kiren Rijiju and Harsh Malhotra, and former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad have been assigned the task for the three states, respectively. The three MPs will be the central leaders…
Mumbai: India’s forex reserves dropped by USD 1.01 billion to USD 697.93 billion for the week ended June 20, the Reserve Bank of India said on Friday. In the previous reporting week, the reserves had jumped by USD 2.29 billion to USD 698.95 billion. Forex reserves had touched an all-time high of USD 704.885 billion…
Puri: Thousands of people pulled the ropes attached to chariots of Lord Jagannath and his siblings on a road from near the 12th-century shrine here towards Shree Gundicha temple, around 2.6 km away, as the main part of the Rath Yatra festival began on Friday. Odisha Governor Hari Babu Kambhampati, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi,…
Kolkata: Union minister and BJP’s West Bengal unit president Sukanta Majumdar on Friday claimed that the alleged gang rape in a law college in Kolkata shows that female students are “not safe” in educational institutes in the state. Condemning the incident, the ruling Trinamool Congress said the police swiftly apprehended all three accused in the…
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday launched a scathing attack on the previous Samajwadi Party government, accusing it of ignoring the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector while keeping the state trapped in caste-based conflicts and nepotism for political gains. Speaking at a program in Lucknow on the occasion of International…
Hyderabad: The Telangana BJP on Friday launched a scathing attack on the Revanth Reddy-led Congress government for its controversial decision to rename the popular ‘Annapurna Canteens’—which serve subsidized meals to the poor—as ‘Indira Canteens’. Calling it an “unwarranted, insensitive, and politically motivated” move, the BJP termed the renaming as a direct affront to the sentiments…
New Delhi: India has evacuated more than 4,400 Indian nationals from Iran and Israel so far in 19 special flights under Operation Sindhu launched on June 18 to bring home its citizens amid the ongoing conflict between the two countries, according to the Ministry of External Affairs. A fresh batch of 173 Indians evacuated from…
Chennai: AIADMK top leader Edappadi K Palaniswami on Thursday wondered if Chief Minister MK Stalin and the DMK had locus standi to utter Dravidian icon C N Annadurai’s name and slammed the CM for “speaking politics in a government function”. Palaniswami’s tirade follows Stalin’s “AIADMK has mortgaged the name of Anna itself” jibe. Alleging that…
Qingdao: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has conveyed to his Chinese counterpart Admiral Don Jun that India and China should maintain the positive momentum in the bilateral ties and avoid adding new complexities. Singh held “constructive” talks with Don on the sidelines of a conclave of defence ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in this…
Bhubaneshwar: The annual Rath Yatra of Lord Jagannath began in Puri on Friday, drawing lakhs of devotees from across India and abroad. The coastal pilgrim town has been turned into a high-security zone with an elaborate deployment of forces, AI-enabled surveillance, and real-time monitoring. As the grand chariots of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra, and Devi…
