Agartala, Aug 6 (IANS) Claiming that there is no political violence in Tripura, the state’s ruling BJP on Monday rubbished the observation of a group of pro-Left leaders’ that lawlessness prevailed in the state. “Social…
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) The central government on Monday launched an online management system to expedite land acquisition and the bidding process for road construction. The Bidder Information Management System (BIMS) was launched by…
Agra, Aug 6 (IANS) Thanks to watchful villagers in Sikandra area of Agra, a rare juvenile Himalayan Griffon vulture was rescued from drowning in the Yamuna on Monday. The young raptor was trying desperately to…
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) BJP MLA Vijender Gupta on Monday raised the issue of a National Register of Citizens (NRC) for the national capital and was marshalled out of the Delhi Assembly for creating…
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) After BJP MLA Om Prakash Sharma on Monday made an “objectionable” remark against AAP legislator Amanatullah Khan in the Delhi Assembly, Speaker Ram Niwas Goel referred the matter to the…
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Monday said the BJP was trying to use the citizenship issue as a “political weapon” for the upcoming elections. Gogoi’s comments come a…
Bengaluru, Aug 6 (IANS) The Bengaluru civic body on Monday set a 15-day deadline to remove all illegal hoardings, flexi billboards and posters put up across the city in a bid to beautify the garden…
Chandigarh, Aug 6 (IANS) AAP leader and former leader of Opposition Sukhpal Singh Khaira said on Monday that his group was not trying to break the party unit in Punjab and was only trying to…
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested senior Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Habibur Rahman after he landed here following his deportation from Riyadh, the agency said on Monday. The anti-terror agency said…
Mumbai, Aug 6 (IANS) Taking a cue from Congress President Rahul Gandhi, the party’s Maharashtra unit on Monday slammed Union Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari’s comment on “lack of employment opportunities” in the country. On Sunday,…
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha on Monday unanimously passed the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-third Amendment) Bill as passed by the Lok Sabha to give a constitutional status to the National Commission…
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Monday appointed Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Maninder Acharya as amicus curiae to assist it in the hearing of a petition seeking removal of “objectionable matter”…
Mumbai, Aug 6 (IANS) Broadly positive global cues along with healthy buying in banking stocks helped the key Indian equity indices to set fresh benchmarks on Monday. Before settling at record closing levels, both S&P…
Kolkata, Aug 6 (IANS) Presidency University students continued their campus sit-in to protest the authorities’ alleged failure to shift them back to the Eden Hindu Hostel even as its Vice Chancellor said on Monday that…
Srinagar, Aug 6 (IANS) A Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militant was arrested with explosives in Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Monday. A police statement said police recovered from him a huge cache of incriminating materials including…
New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Opposition candidate C.M. Ramesh of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Monday got the highest number of votes, 106, in the Rajya Sabha and was elected to the Public Accounts…
Kolkata, Aug 6 (IANS) The ruling BJP in Jharkhand and Trinamool Congress in West Bengal are having a showdown over the colour to be used for painting Jharkhand’s Massanjore dam and the ‘Biswa Bangla’ logo…