New Delhi: Terming the SBI’s reasons for seeking an extension in disclosing electoral bond details “puerile”, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal Sunday said it is the Supreme Court’s responsibility to protect its dignity and that it “would not be easy” to accept the bank’s plea when a Constitution bench has rendered a judgement. Sibal, who…
Kolkata: TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Sunday announced the list of candidates for all 42 Lok Sabha seats from West Bengal, dropping at least eight sitting MPs and bringing in several new faces such as former cricketers Yusuf Pathan and Kriti Azad. The party renominated 16 sitting MPs and fielded 12 women. Cricketer Yusuf Pathan…
New Delhi: India should be able to send its scientists to study the deep ocean 6 km under the sea surface in its own Samudrayaan by the end of next year, Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju has said. In a video interview to PTI, Rijiju said India’s deep-ocean submersible Matsya6000, which will take humans up…
Varanasi (UP): Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a roadshow here and offered prayers at the Kashi Vishwanath temple after arriving in his parliamentary constituency to a rousing reception days after the BJP fielded him from the seat for a third time. BJP workers and locals lined up the roads outside the airport from where Modi…
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday underlined his party’s resolve to conduct a caste census if voted to power, asserting that based on this right step along with economic mapping, the 50 per cent cap on reservation would be “uprooted”. Gandhi said the Congress’ slogan is “count” because that would be the first…
Patna: Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday alleged that the top brass of the Congress and RJD always worked for the interest of their families but did not do anything for the poor. Addressing a rally of the BJP OBC Morcha in Patna’s Paliganj area, he said that it is only Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
Nagpur: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said positive discussions were held in Delhi on the Mahayuti alliance for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and “80 per cent” of the issues have been resolved. Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday held talks for seat sharing in Maharashtra with coalition partners Shiv Sena…
New Delhi: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Saturday said it has arrested Jaffer Sadiq, a former DMK party functionary in Tamil Nadu, in connection with an international drugs trafficking investigation case estimated to be worth more than Rs 2,000 crore. Sadiq was arrested on Saturday from Delhi, NCB deputy director general (operations) Gyaneshwar Singh…
Itanagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the kind of work done by his government in the last five years in the Northeast, the Congress would have taken 20 years to do it. The PM was addressing a public meeting in Arunachal Pradesh’s Itanagar after unveiling development projects worth Rs 55,600 crore in the…
Prayagaraj (UP): Around 9.70 lakh people took a dip in the Ganga and the holy Sangam here till 6 pm on the occasion of Mahashivratri, also the last bathing day of the ongoing Magh Mela in Prayagraj. A Magh Mela administration official said bathers started pouring into the Sangam area from morning, and by 6…
