New Delhi: Former prime ministers P V Narasimha Rao and Chaudhary Charan Singh as well as agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan will be honoured with the Bharat Ratna, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Friday. The government had earlier announced the country’s highest civilian honour for L K Advani and Karpoori Thakur. “Narasimha Rao steered…
Haldwani: Two persons were killed and three critically injured in the violence that broke out over the demolition of an illegally-built madrasa and a place for offering namaz inside its premises in the town where curfew has been imposed and shoot-at-sight orders issued. Nainital District Magistrate (DM) Vandana Singh and Senior Superintendent of Police Prahlad…
Mumbai: The investigation into the sensational murder of Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Abhishek Ghosalkar during a ‘Facebook Live’ by a local ‘social activist’, who also killed himself, has been transferred to the Mumbai Crime Branch, an official said on Friday. Abhishek (40), son of former MLA Vinod Ghosalkar, a loyalist of the Uddhav Thackeray-led party,…
Islamabad: Jailed former premier Imran Khan’s party-backed independent candidates seemed to have sprung a surprise as the results of the general elections in Pakistan started trickling in on Friday following unusual delays, leading to allegations of rigging. Votes are being counted in Pakistan after Thursday’s general election which was marred by allegations of rigging, sporadic…
New Delhi: The Union government has so far not been able to provide connectivity with National Highways (NHs) to 40 out of 766 district headquarters, Parliament was informed on Thursday. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Road Transport and Highways minister Nitin Gadkari said Telangana (6) has the maximum number of districts whose…
Chennai/New Delhi: The MPs belonging to the DMK and their allies staged a protest wearing black shirts near the Gandhi statue in the Parliament Complex on Thursday condemning the Centre for its alleged financial injustice to Tamil Nadu. The parliamentarians, led by DMK senior leader T R Baalu, raised slogans denouncing the union government for…
Jharsguda: Congress MP and former AICC president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday made a remark claiming Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not an OBC (Other Backward Classes) by birth. During his visit to Jharsuguda district as part of the ongoing ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ in Odisha, he said Modi was born in a general caste but…
Noida: Three Union Ministers – junior Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda, junior Home Minister Nityanand Rai, and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal – will meet representatives of the protesting farmers in Chandigarh at 6 pm on Thursday, reported NDTV. With the scheduled the BJP-led Centre hopes to end the woes of the protesting farmers who have planned…
New Delhi: The Congress released a ‘black paper’ on Thursday to highlight the “failures” of the Modi government, flagging issues such as unemployment, price rise and “farmers’ distress.” The release of the ‘black paper’ titled ‘10 Saal Anyay Kaal’ by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge comes ahead of the government’s tabling in Parliament of a ‘white…
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented a ‘White Paper on the Indian Economy’ in the Lok Sabha on Thursday in a bid to highlight the government’s assertion that the nation slipped into the category of “fragile five” economies globally during the 10-year tenure of the previous Congress-led UPA regime between 2004 and 2014. According…
