Archive Detail
Title | Description | Posted Date |
---|---|---|
Modi regime testing time for India's dem | Kolkata, Jan 19 (IANS) Former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Gegong Apang, who left the BJP after a four-year association earlier this week, said on Saturday the Narendra Modi regime has been a "testing time" for India's democracy and accused it of dividing the country. | 19-Jan-2019 |
Opposition parties disrupt Jharkhand Ass | Ranchi, Jan 18 (TIWN / IANS) Opposition parties on Friday disrupted the proceedings in the Jharkhand Assembly as the House was running beyond the stipulated lunch time of 12.30 p.m. | 18-Jan-2019 |
Explosion rocks Srinagar Lal Chowk | Srinagar, Jan 18 (TIWN / IANS) Militants on Friday hurled a grenade at a paramilitary patrol party in the city centre Lal Chowk here in Jammu and Kashmir, police said. | 18-Jan-2019 |
Armed men rob Jammu-Delhi Duronto passen | New Delhi, Jan 17 (TIWN / IANS) Brandishing knives at passengers, five armed men forced their entry into two Jammu-Delhi Duronto Express coaches early on Thursday and fled with their cash and gold within minutes in the absence of security, railway officials said. | 17-Jan-2019 |
BSP-SP alliance does not spell stability | New Delhi, Jan 17 (TIWN / IANS) In the first attack by a senior Congress leader on the SP-BSP alliance in Uttar Pradesh, former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has said that it does not "spell stability" and the Congress will spring a surprise in the state in the coming Lok Sabha elections. | 17-Jan-2019 |
Robbery in Jammu-Delhi Duronto Express | New Delhi, Jan 17 (TIWN / IANS) At least five unidentified assailants barged into the Jammu-Delhi Duronto Express on Thursday when it stopped due to a signal problem, a passenger said, with the Railways saying they have some lead in the case. | 17-Jan-2019 |
Congress' candidate list for Kerala Lok | New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 16 (TIWN / IANS) A list of 16 Congress candidates for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Kerala will be ready by February 20, said a top party leader on Wednesday. | 16-Jan-2019 |
New jolt to AAP: Punjab MLA quits party | Chandigarh, Jan 16 (TIWN / IANS) In a fresh jolt to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab, yet another MLA, this time Baldev Singh, resigned from the party's primary membership on Wednesday, citing "autocratic functioning", "double standards" and disregard for its basic ideology and principles. | 16-Jan-2019 |
Odisha Teacher Eligibility Test cancelle | Bhubaneswar, Jan 16 (TIWN / IANS) The Odisha Teacher Eligibility Test (OTET) was cancelled and a probe ordered after its question paper was leaked on the social media on Wednesday, even as the first sitting of the examination was underway. | 16-Jan-2019 |
Two nursing students arrested for killin | Kolkata, Jan 16 (TIWN / IANS) Two nursing students, allegedly seen in a video mercilessly beating puppies to death in a state-run medical college and hospital, were arrested on Tuesday after a marathon interrogation, police said. | 15-Jan-2019 |
Narayanan questions methodology of CBI c | Kolkata, Jan 16 (TIWN / IANS) Former NSA M.K. Narayanan on Tuesday expressed concern over the "internal dissension at the highest level of an institution like CBI" and questioned the way the agency chief was being selected now. | 15-Jan-2019 |
Former Arunachal CM Apang quits BJP | Guwahati, Jan 15 (TIWN / IANS) Former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Gegong Apang on Tuesday resigned from the party, saying it was no longer following the principles of the late Atal Bihari Vajpayee. | 15-Jan-2019 |
NCW seeks police action against Jadavpur | New Delhi, Jan 15 (TIWN / IANS) The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Tuesday took suo motu cognisance of objectionable remarks made by a Jadavpur University professor and sought police action against him. | 15-Jan-2019 |
36 swine flu deaths reported in Rajastha | Jaipur, Jan 15 (TIWN / IANS) A total of 36 swine flu deaths have been reported in the first 15 days of this month in Rajasthan, health officials said. | 15-Jan-2019 |
Leverage technology, AI to boost flying | Mumbai, Jan 15 (TIWN / IANS) Stressing the importance of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu stressed here on Tuesday the need to leverage these modern technologies to improve the global flying ecosystem. | 15-Jan-2019 |
Rahul mocks Modi over Kotler award, Iran | New Delhi, Jan 15 (TIWN / IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday mocked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for getting the Philip Kotler Presidential award, saying the award was so famous that it has no jury. | 15-Jan-2019 |
Jadavpur University professor draws flak | Kolkata, Jan 15 (TIWN / IANS) A Jadavpur University professor here is drawing flak for a series of Facebook posts where he compared a virgin girl to a sealed "bottle of cold drink or a packet of biscuits" and commented that to men "virgin wife is like angel". | 14-Jan-2019 |
17 sexual harassment cases pending with | New Delhi, Jan 15 (TIWN / IANS) As many as 17 cases of sexual harassment filed by both regular and casual employees of All India Radio (AIR) from all over India are still under probe, the National Commission for Women (NCW) said on Monday. | 14-Jan-2019 |
Upper caste quota comes into force | New Delhi, Jan 15 (TIWN / IANS) The Central government on Monday notified the 10 per cent quota amendment in its official gazette, bringing reservation to the economically weak section among upper castes formally in action. | 14-Jan-2019 |
Thousands of devotees take holy dip on M | Prayagraj, Jan 15 (TIWN / IANS) On the wee hours of Tuesday, thousands of faithful thronged the Kumbh Mela site here and took the holy dip at Sangam -- the confluence of Ganga and Yamuna rivers and the mystical Saraswati -- to mark the onset of the Kumbh Mela on the auspicious day of Makar Sankranti. | 14-Jan-2019 |
Cylinder blast sparks fire at Kumbh Mela | Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh), Jan 14 (TIWN / IANS) A fire broke out in the Kumbh premises here on Monday, destroying a large part of the tented area, officials said. But no loss of life was reported. | 14-Jan-2019 |
Security heightened in Bengal for Gangas | Kolkata, Jan 14 (IANS) Security was tightened across West Bengal ahead of the Gangasagar Mela to mark the occasion of Makar Sankranti, when close to 16 lakh devotees come for a holy dip at the confluence of the Ganga and the Bay of Bengal, an official said on Monday. | 14-Jan-2019 |
SC issues notice on Sajjan Kumar's plea | New Delhi, Jan 14 (TIWN / IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the CBI on former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar's appeal challenging the Delhi High Court verdict sentencing him to life imprisonment following his conviction in one of the 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases. | 14-Jan-2019 |
Modi's 'Rafale fear' behind plum post of | New Delhi, Jan 14 (TIWN / IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday charged Prime Minister Narendra Modi with destroying key institutions to cover up the "Rafale scam" following reports of Supreme Court judge A.K. Sikri, who sided with the government to remove CBI Director Alok Verma, being nominated to the Commonwealth Tribunal. | 13-Jan-2019 |
Bengali poet Srijato's presence at Assam | Kolkata, Jan 14 (IANS) Bengali poet Srijato Bandyopadhyay's presence at a literary event in Assam's Silchar drew strong protests from a group of local people over one of his controversial poems, police said on Sunday. | 13-Jan-2019 |
Congress will contest all 80 LS seats in | Lucknow, Jan 13 (TIWN / IANS) The Congress will contest all the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh in the upcoming general elections, party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad announced on Sunday. | 13-Jan-2019 |
Kovind, Modi pay homage to Guru Gobind S | New Delhi, Jan 13 (TIWN / IANS) President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid homage to the tenth Sikh master Guru Gobind Singh on his 352nd birth anniversary. | 13-Jan-2019 |
Soldier injured in sniper fire on LoC | Jammu, Jan 13 (TIWN / IANS) A soldier was injured on Sunday in sniper fire from Pakistan along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district. | 13-Jan-2019 |
SP-BSP alliance a monumental leap of fai | New Delhi, Jan 13 (TIWN / IANS) It is exactly something that the BJP had a sense of foreboding about. The alliance between the SP & BSP in UP is a monumental leap of faith between two sworn rivals. | 13-Jan-2019 |
UP equation not a setback for us, result | Dubai, Jan 13 (TIWN / IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leaving the Congress out of the alliance in Uttar Pradesh was not a "setback" for his party, and stressed that the poll results "would surprise people". | 12-Jan-2019 |
BSP-SP alliance desperate effort for sur | New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) The BJP on Saturday termed the BSP-SP alliance a desperate effort for survival against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. | 12-Jan-2019 |
BJP's performance, not opposition lies, | New Delhi, Jan 12 (TIWN / IANS) Accusing the opposition parties of creating a false narrative based on lies, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said it was the BJP which will decide the agenda and control the narrative of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls through Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership and his government's performance over the last five years. | 12-Jan-2019 |
Stop illegal mining or face contempt of | Shillong, Jan 12 (IANS) A three-member committee of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Friday asked the Meghalaya government to either stop illegal coal mining in the state or face contempt of court. | 11-Jan-2019 |
Congress disrupts 'The Accidental Prime | Kolkata, Jan 12 (IANS) A group of West Bengal Congress activists on Friday allegedly interrupted the screening of 'The Accidental Prime Minister' and resorted to vandalism at a posh Kolkata multiplex on Friday evening, while the film based on former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's tenure faced agitation across the city. | 11-Jan-2019 |
AAP member Meera Sanyal dead | Mumbai, Jan 12 (IANS) Meera Sanyal, member of the National Executive Committee of the Aam Aadmi Party, passed away at her residence here on Friday. She was 57, the party said. | 11-Jan-2019 |
CMs of six states sign Renukaji Dam proj | New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) Chief Ministers of six north Indian states signed an agreement for Renukaji Multipurpose Dam here on Friday, which aims to fulfil the water needs of these states, said an official statement. | 11-Jan-2019 |
Ignoring us in UP will be 'dangerous mis | New Delhi, Jan 11 (TIWN / IANS) Giving out a stern message to the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP), which are likely to announce their alliance for the Lok Sabha polls, the Congress on Friday said ignoring the grand old party will be a "dangerous mistake". | 11-Jan-2019 |
Those trying to stop Durga Puja in Benga | Kolkata, Jan 11 (TIWN / IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday flayed the Income Tax Commissioner's circular seeking expenditure details from all major Durga Puja organisers in the state, and asked the big clubs to avoid the central tax authorities. | 11-Jan-2019 |
BJP office vandalised in Assam | Guwahati, Jan 11 (IANS) As protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016 continued in Assam, a group of agitators vandalised a BJP office near here, police said on Friday. | 11-Jan-2019 |
Upper caste reservation welcome, but the | Kolkata, Jan 11 (TIWN / IANS) While welcoming the decision to ensure 10 per cent reservation in jobs to economically backward sections in the general category, the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) on Friday expressed doubts over its proper implementation, saying there was a "political motive". | 10-Jan-2019 |
Verma transfers more CBI officers | New Deli, Jan 10 (TIWN / IANS) Restored as CBI Director, Alok Verma continued with transfers of officers shifting five more on Thursday including two Joint Directors, one Assistant Director and two Deputy Inspector Generals (DIG). | 10-Jan-2019 |
Why is Modi in hurry to sack CBI chief: | New Delhi, Jan 10 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in a hurry to sack Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) chief Alok Verma, fearing a probe into the Rafale fighter aircraft deal. | 10-Jan-2019 |
SC defers Ayodhya case to Jan 29 | New Delhi, Jan 10 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday deferred the Ayodhya title dispute to January 29, saying that the five judge bench to hear the case will be reconstituted as Justice U.U. Lalit has recused himself. | 10-Jan-2019 |
Moderate intensity earthquake jolts J&K | Srinagar, Jan 10 (IANS) A moderate intensity earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale jolted in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. | 10-Jan-2019 |
Alok Verma revokes transfer orders issue | New Delhi, Jan 10 (TIWN / IANS) Hours after re-joining office after nearly two-and-half months, CBI Director Alok Verma on Wednesday revoked most of the transfer orders issued by agency's interim chief M. Nageswara Rao. | 09-Jan-2019 |
TMC MP Saumitra Khan joins BJP | New Delhi, Jan 9 (TIWN / IANS) In a setback to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Saumitra Khan on Wednesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). | 09-Jan-2019 |
SC refuses to keep Justice Bedi's Gujara | New Delhi, Jan 9 (TIWN / IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed that a copy of the Justice H.S. Bedi committee report on eight cases of fake shootouts in Gujarat be furnished to the petitioner, noted lyricist Javed Akhtar, and refused to keep it confidential. | 09-Jan-2019 |
'Chowkidar' will be ever alert, keep cat | Solapur (Maharashtra), Jan 9 (TIWN / IANS) Kicking off the Bharatiya Janata Party's Lok Sabha campaign in Maharashtra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday targeted the Congress, accusing it of corruption and warned that "this Chowkidar (watchman) will never sleep and continue to catch thieves". | 09-Jan-2019 |
Quota bill moved in Rajya Sabha amid upr | New Delhi, Jan 9 (TIWN / IANS) The Rajya Sabha was adjourned till afternoon following protests by opposition members amidst demands that the Constitution bill providing for upper caste reservation be sent to a Select Committee for detailed consideration even as the government sought to push ahead with its passage on the last day of the winter session on Wednesday. | 09-Jan-2019 |
Citizenship Bill biggest betrayal: forme | Shillong, Jan 9 (TIWN / IANS) Leader of Opposition in the Meghalaya Assembly Mukul Sangma on Tuesday described the passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha as the biggest betrayal of the nation. | 08-Jan-2019 |