Cooch Behar (WB): Days after the mega opposition meeting in Patna, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee criticised the role of CPI (M) and Congress, saying despite her efforts to form a grand opposition alliance against the BJP at the Centre, their actions as playing second fiddle to the saffron camp in the state are…
Jammu: In a veiled warning to Pakistan, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said India is getting more powerful and if the need arises, it can hit on this side of the border and also by going across. Addressing a security conclave at the University of Jammu, he asserted that the country has taken major…
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday asserted that the Narendra Modi government will root out the menace of drugs from India and will not allow the smuggling of narcotics through the country. In a video message on the International Day Against Drug Abuse, Shah said the home ministry has adopted a zero-tolerance policy…
Mumbai: Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has said new vehicles will be introduced that run entirely on ethanol.. Speaking at an event in Nagpur on Sunday, the minister recalled that he recently met the chairman of Mercedes Benz company which launched an electric vehicle. “He (the chairman) told me they would make…
New Delhi: India’s oilseed exports are expected to grow by 10-15 per cent during this fiscal as traders are getting good orders from regions like Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa, according to exporters. In 2022-23, the oilseed exports rose by over 20 per cent to USD 1.33 billion (around Rs 10,900 crore). The main…
Hyderabad: Ruling BRS president and Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday left for a visit to Solapur in Maharashtra. Rao, who was travelling by road in a massive convoy of about 600 vehicles, was accompanied by state ministers, MPs, MLCs, MLAs and party senior leaders, an official release said. During his two-day visit to…
Srinagar: The NIA is conducting searches in more than half a dozen places in four Jammu and Kashmir districts as part of an investigation in a terror-related case, officials said on Monday. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is carrying out searches in the Bandipora, Kulgam, Pulwama and Shopian districts of the Valley, the officials said. Further…
New Dellhi: After returning to India from his foreign visit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked BJP president J P Nadda and other leaders what was happening in India, party leaders, who had gone to receive him at the airport here, said. Modi returned to India in the early hours of Monday after his six-day visit…
New Delhi: Solicitor General Tushar Mehta on Sunday said the period of emergency between June 1975 to March 1977 was the “darkest period” in the history of post-independent democratic India. Delivering keynote address at an event titled ‘A Talk on the Abuse of the Constitution During the Emergency’, Mehta said that over the past decade, people…
New Delhi: Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s US tour “impactful” and said the bilateral decisions taken during his visit have established steps towards greater realisation of national goals. Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters here, she also hailed the prime minister’s visit to Egypt and said President Abdel…
