Kolkata: Three coaches of the Secunderabad-Shalimar Superfast Express derailed near Howrah in West Bengal around 5.30 am on Saturday, South Eastern Railway officials said. “The weekly special train derailed at Nalpur, about 40 km from Kolkata. No casualties or injuries have been reported so far,” they said. A parcel van was among the derailed coaches….
Lucknow (UP): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday launched a scathing attack on the Samajwadi Party, claiming that women felt scared wherever they saw someone associated with the Akhilesh Yadav-led party. Adityanath on Friday addressed several rallies for the Rashtriya Lok Dal’s (RLD) Meerapur candidate Mithilesh Pal and BJP nominees Ramveer Singh Thakur…
Ranchi/Jamshedpur: Asserting that “state-sponsored infiltration” was a serious threat to Jharkhand, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday said India was not a ‘dharmshala’ where anyone can come and settle. Addressing an election rally in Ranchi, he accused the JMM-led ruling coalition of patronising infiltrators, and alleged that they were coming to the state,…
New Delhi: Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh on Friday claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is “pushing” the Great Nicobar Integrated Development Project aggressively in the face of clear and mounting evidence of its “disastrous” ecological and humanitarian impacts. Ramesh, who is also a former Union environment minister, has been asserting that the present design…
Dhule (Maharashtra): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accused the Congress-led INDIA bloc of wanting to take the Constitution out of Jammu and Kashmir and asserted that no power in the world can restore Article 370 there. He also accused the Congress of pitting one caste against another and cautioned people to stay united. “Ek…
Imphal: At least six houses were torched and residents of a tribal village were attacked by a group of armed militants in ethnic strife-torn Manipur’s Jiribam district, police said on Friday. The incident occurred on Thursday evening in Zairon Hmar village after the group of militants set the houses on fire, a senior officer said….
Ballari (Karnataka): Union Minister Pralhad Joshi on Friday alleged that a new kind of “Jihad” is taking place across Karnataka with the Waqf Board claiming ownership of lands belonging to farmers, temples and others. Hitting out at the Congress government headed by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, he said the ruling party has reached “height of appeasement…
New Delhi: Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan on Friday said work is underway to virtually link the various military museums to one e-platform under a project that aims to spread awareness about India’s glorious military heritage. In his keynote address at the inaugural ceremony of the second edition of the Indian Military Heritage…
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister and veteran Marxist leader Pinarayi Vijayan intensified his attack on the Congress, alleging that its general secretary, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, is contesting the Wayanad Lok Sabha by-election with the backing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In a Facebook post on Thursday, Vijayan claimed that the by-election in Wayanad has “exposed the Congress party’s secular…
New Delhi: Days after the chief minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province called for ‘climate diplomacy’ with India to jointly address the issue of smog, the MEA on Thursday said New Delhi has not heard anything formally from Islamabad so far on this matter. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) official spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said this in…
