New Delhi: Senior JD(U) leader K C Tyagi has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to consider bestowing ‘Bharat Ratna’ on Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. In a letter to the prime minister on Thursday, the former Janata Dal (United) [JD(U)] MP said that Kumar, who is a “precious gem” of the socialist movement, is worthy…
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday announced a crackdown on narcotics from March 31 with a three-year nationwide campaign to weed out the drug menace from the country. Addressing the 9th Apex-level meeting of the Narco-Coordination Centre (NCORD), Shah said that as part of the collective campaign, a working methodology for all…
Nahan (HP): Fourteen people have died in the bus mishap in Himachal’s Sirmaur after a bus fell into a 500-foot deep gorge, police said on Friday. The accident occurred in the afternoon, when an overloaded private bus, surpassing its seating capacity of 39, veered off the road on its way to Kupvi from Shimla, and…
New Delhi: India on Friday said it is closely following developments relating to a proposed legislation by the US that seeks to impose up to 500 per cent tariffs on countries procuring Russian crude oil. India and China are among a handful of countries that are procuring significant volumes of crude oil from Russia. US…
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday accused the ED of acting as a political tool of the BJP to “steal” her party’s internal strategy, asserting that she did nothing wrong in reaching the premises linked to I-PAC during the central agency’s raids a day ago. Addressing a rally here after a massive…
Guwahati: Opposition parties in Assam on Friday approached the police and the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) against the BJP, alleging that it conspired to delete names from the electoral rolls ahead of the assembly polls, a charge rejected by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. Sarma maintained that revision of electoral rolls is a regular process…
Nahan (HP): (Jan 9) Nine people died while about 40 others were injured after a private bus fell into a 500-feet deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh’s Sirmaur district on Friday afternoon, police said. The accident occurred when the bus en route from Shimla to Kupvi via Rajgarh veered off the road and plunged into the…
New Delhi: Speaker Vijender Gupta on Friday suspended four AAP MLAs for the remaining period of the ongoing Winter Session of the Delhi Assembly for “disrupting” House proceedings. In a statement, Gupta said “due to the continuous disruption of the proceedings of the House and violation of its decorum”, Opposition members (AAP) Som Dutt, Jarnail…
Patna: The NDA in Bihar on Friday welcomed a Delhi court’s order directing framing of charges against RJD chief and former railway minister Lalu Prasad, his family members, and others in the alleged land-for-job scam. Special Judge Vishal Gogne said Lalu Prasad used the railway ministry as his personal fiefdom to carry out a criminal…
New Delhi: Several Trinamool Congress MPs were on Friday detained while staging a protest outside the Home Ministry’s office here against alleged misuse of probe agencies by the Centre. TMC leaders were forcefully evicted from the spot by Delhi Police, with MPs being dragged and physically carried away by police personnel. The protest came a…
