New Delhi: The BJP’s Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting, attended by senior leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to hold deliberations to finalise the first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls ended early Friday. The meeting, which began around 10:30 pm on Thursday, lasted for more than four hours and was held at…
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday claimed that there was no relevance of any protest against Citizenship (Amendment) Act at this point and said that all those opposed to the law may approach the Supreme Court for revoking it. Addressing a press conference here, Sarma said Parliament, which had passed the law,…
Gangtok/Jalpagiri: The annual Eastern Command anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) field firing exercise was conducted at Teeesta field firing range in West Bengal by the Indian Army said on Thursday. The exercise was conducted under the aegis of Trishakti Corps, and more than 260 missiles were fired to achieve the target of “one missile one tank”,…
Shimla: The Congress on Thursday asserted that the situation in Himachal Pradesh is “completely under control” and the BJP has failed in its attempts to “destabilise the elected government” in the hill state. The Congress government faces a crisis after the ruling party in the state lost the lone Rajya Sabha seat despite having the…
Basirhat (WB): TMC strongman Shajahan Sheikh, accused of sexual abuse and land grabbing in Sandeshkhali, was arrested in the early hours of Thursday after being on the run for 55 days that witnessed violent protests led by local women and a fierce political slugfest. Additional Director-General of Police (South Bengal) Supratim Sarkar said Sheikh was…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should spell out what central schemes the state government has “blocked”, and said those it opposed include NEET and the CAA, keeping public welfare in mind. The chief minister was responding to Modi’s claim that there was lack of…
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday accused the BJP-ruled Centre of not considering the views of trade unions while amending the Labour Laws. Addressing the Chief Minister’s Face-to-Face programme with workers in Kollam, Vijayan alleged that the new Labour Law amendments would undo many of the gains already made in the labour sector…
New Delhi: Born a day before India became a republic, the Election Commission has evolved a lot in the last 75 years from the period of ballot boxes to the era of electronic voting machines with democracy being the beating heart of this electoral machinery. Since its inception on January 25, 1950, the Commission has…
Kolkata: Absconding TMC leader Shajahan Sheikh, accused of alleged sexual atrocities and land grabbing in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali, was arrested on Thursday morning after being on the run for 55 days, police said. He was arrested from a house in Minakhan, around 30 km away from the island of Sandeshkhali on the outskirts of Sunderbans,…
Dindori: Fourteen people were killed and 20 others injured when a pick-up vehicle overturned in Madhya Pradesh’s Dindori district in the wee hours of Thursday, a police official said. The accident took place near Badjhar Ghat at around 1.30 am when the vehicle’s driver lost control over the wheels. As a result, the vehicle overturned,…
