Bengaluru: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar on Sunday said that the government will not take any hasty decision regarding the Socio-Economic and Education Survey report, popularly known as the ‘caste census’, that was recently tabled before the state cabinet. He said the cabinet will go through the report and discuss it, and will…
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma met Adani Group director Jeet Adani on Sunday and discussed the investments of Rs 50,000 crore proposed by the conglomerate during the state’s business summit in February. Sarma said the state government was expecting that the proposals given by the Adani Group for investment in various sectors would…
Visakhapatnam: Eight people, including two women, were killed and seven others injured in a fire accident at a firecracker manufacturing unit in Anakapalli district of Andhra Pradesh on Sunday. Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu expressed shock over the incident. “Eight people, including two women, died, and seven others were injured in the fire accident,” Home…
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: As the country gears up to celebrate Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar’s 134th birth anniversary, a centenarian from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar who once gave up a steady job with the railways to briefly serve the Dalit leader shares how that experience continues to define his life. Despite age catching up on him, 103-year-old Laxman Khotkar still…
Lucknow: Accusing the Congress of disrespecting Dr B R Ambedkar, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday alleged that the grand old party denied the architect of the Indian Constitution a memorial and did not allow his last rites to take place in the national capital. The chief minister made this assertion while addressing…
Kolkata: BJP’s Purulia MP Jyotirmay Singh Mahato has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah urging the Centre to declare select bordering districts of West Bengal as “disturbed areas” under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), alleging repeated attacks on the Hindu community. In his letter dated April 13, Mahato alleged that districts such…
New Delhi: The Centre is planning to invest Rs 10 lakh crore over the next two years to strengthen highways across the country, with special focus on the Northeast, where roads will rival those in the US, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said. In an interview to PTI, he said the Centre is…
Sambhal (UP): The district administration has ordered a probe into alleged financial irregularities related to a dargah here and encroachment of land, officials said on Saturday. Officials said the probe will focus not just on the financial irregularities but also whether the land on which the dargah stands was Waqf property as claimed. According to…
Kolkata: Holding that it cannot turn a blind eye to reports of vandalism in a few districts of West Bengal, the Calcutta High Court on Saturday ordered deployment of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) in Murshidabad district, which has been hit by violence allegedly linked to ongoing protests against the Waqf (Amendment) Act. The court…
Hyderabad: Abhishek Sharma returned to form with a breathtaking 141 off 55 balls, overshadowing Shreyas Iyer’s 82, as Sunrisers Hyderabad scripted the second-highest run chase in IPL history to return to winning ways with a comprehensive eight-wicket win over Punjab Kings in a high-scoring encounter here on Saturday. Opting to bat, PBKS skipper Shreyas Iyer…
