Raipur: Vishnu Deo Sai, a prominent tribal face of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Chhattisgarh, will be state chief minister after he was elected as leader of BJP’s legislative party during a meeting of 54 newly-elected MLAs here on Sunday. Incidentally, addressing a poll rally in the Kunkuri constituency last month, Union Home Minister and senior…
New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: The seizure of “unaccounted” cash after the income-tax department raided an Odisha-based distillery group and entities linked to it is expected to reach Rs 290 crore, making it the “highest-ever” black money haul by any agency in a single operation, official sources said on Saturday. The tax department has deployed about 40 large and…
New Delhi: India has had an “exceptionally difficult” challenge along the northern borders in the last three years and the country responded to it very resolutely and has been maintaining the kind of military deployment necessary for national security, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday on the lingering row in eastern Ladakh with China….
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Press Trust of India office here on Saturday in his first visit to any newsroom since he assumed office in 2014, and saw from close quarters the news agency’s newly-launched video service. During his one-hour stay, Modi interacted with the entire PTI staff in batches, and also…
New Delhi: A technical correction is being made mentioning V Muraleedharan’s name as the minister who replied to a Parliament question on the designation of Hamas, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Saturday. The clarification from MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi came hours after Union minister Meenakshi Lekhi said she did not approve any answer…
Hyderabad: The portfolios of the Ministers in the new Congress government in Telangana were announced on Saturday with Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy keeping Municipal Administration, General Administration, Law and Order and all other unallocated portfolios. Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka was allocated the key portfolios of Finance and Planning, Energy. N Uttam Kumar…
New Delhi: India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday arrested 15 people that it claims are operatives of ISIS or Islamic State in raids across Maharashtra and Karnataka, PTI reported, quoting an agency official. The arrested accused included the leader of an ISIS module who was administering ‘bayath’ (oath of allegiance) to new recruits, a…
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Saturday launched two schemes – free bus travel for women and health insurance of Rs 10 lakh to the poor – which are part of the six poll ‘guarantees’ announced by the Congress. The launch coincides with the birthday of Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi. Revanth…
Dehradun: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said India will become a USD 5 trillion economy by the end of 2025. Addressing the valedictory session of the Uttarakhand Global Investors Summit at the Forest Research Institute here, Shah said India has grown exponentially on every front over the past one decade due to the farsighted…
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government should investigate why it took four days for the flood waters to recede after cyclone ‘Michaung’ devastated Chennai and neighbouring areas, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Saturday. Also, the reasons for prolonged waterlogging should be probed, he said, expressing concern for people’s lives and structural stability of the marooned houses…
