Mangaluru: Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on Monday said the entire coastal region in Karnataka is a fortress of the secular forces including the Janata Dal(S). Addressing reporters here, Gowda, who is here to campaign for party candidate Mohiuddin Bava in Mangaluru North constituency, said the JD(S) always had close relations with the people…
Ludhiana: A five-member Punjab Police Special Investigation Team (SIT) will probe the Giaspura locality gas leak incident here in which 11 people died after allegedly inhaling toxic gas, officials said on Monday. The tragedy struck the densely populated area in Punjab’s industrial hub on Sunday. District authorities said the locality underwent a night-long decontamination process, involving…
Bengaluru: BJP president J P Nadda on Monday said his party was working within the ambit of the Constitution in trying to implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the country, and said they followed the policy of ‘Justice for All and Appeasement for None’. The ruling BJP in Karnataka on Monday promised to implement the…
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday said during the past eight and a half years, the BJP-led government in the state has not only launched several public welfare schemes, but also ensured their meticulous implementation. Interacting with residents of Jhansa village in Kurukshetra district during a ‘Jan Samvad’ programme, he also highlighted…
Aizawl: The Mizoram Congress on Monday said it has accepted the resignation of senior MLA Zodintluanga Ralte as the treasurer of the party’s state unit. Ralte, who is also the Congress Legislature Party leader, resigned as the state treasurer on April 21, saying he was dissatisfied with the functioning of state party president Lalsawta. His…
New Delhi: Traffic snarls and waterlogging were reported in several parts of the national capital on Monday as rain lashed the city making it difficult for the commuters to reach their destination on time. The Delhi Traffic Police said they received 31 calls at their control room regarding the traffic issue, along with three calls…
Kolkata: The West Bengal CID on Monday took over the probe into the “killing” of a man in alleged “police firing” during a raid last week in Uttar Dinajpur’s Kaliaganj, which was rocked by violence over a teenage girl’s death, an officer said. The Criminal Investigation Department of the state police will not probe into the…
Patna: The Bihar government has cancelled more than 1.2 crore “inactive” job cards under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in the last one year, a minister said on Monday. The government has also provided 23.07 lakh fresh job cards to labourers, including 9,267 disabled people, in various districts of the state during the…
Chennai: The DNA of every culture in India has been ‘one and the same’, and that is why this country is called a ‘cultural continuum’, Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi said here on Monday. People are called migrants or immigrants when they move from one place to another. But there was no concept of…
New Delhi: A win in the Karnataka polls will be a “super booster dose” for the Congress electorally going forward after the Bharat Jodo Yatra revitalised the party organisationally, senior leader Jairam Ramesh has said. The Congress general secretary (in-charge communications) said that while the 2024 general elections are still some months away, the outcome in…
