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Election Commission seeks report from Be | Kolkata, Feb 28 : The Election Commission of India (ECI) has sought reports from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEI), West Bengal as well as from the state government on whether the statutory transfer of bureaucrats and police officers before the Lok Sabha elections had been done true to the spirit of fresh transfer norms as set by the commission. | 28-Feb-2024 |
Tamil Nadu: DMK posters 'glorifying' Chi | New Delhi, Feb 28 : A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the name of four astronauts to lead India’s Gaganyaan mission, during his visit to ISRO’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre, a major controversy broke out in Tamil Nadu over ruling party’s eulogy of China at the cost of country’s premiere space organisation. | 28-Feb-2024 |
Any state or central agency empowered to | Kolkata, Feb 28 : A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday, made it amply clear that any investigating agency, whether under the state or Union government, was empowered to arrest absconding Trinamool Congress leader Sheikh Shahjahan. | 28-Feb-2024 |
Assam Congress President Rana Goswami re | Guwahati, Feb 28 : Assam Congress working president Rana Goswami resigned from the party on Wednesday. He is set to join the BJP very soon. | 28-Feb-2024 |
Bengal Guv writes to Mamata govt, seeks | Kolkata, Feb 28 : West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose has written a letter to the state government seeking immediate arrest of Sheikh Shahjahan, the absconding Trinamool Congress leader from Sandeshkhali and accused mastermind of the attack on ED and CAPF personnel. | 28-Feb-2024 |
After atomic power hub, TN set to become | Chennai, Feb 26 : After being a major atomic power generation hub, Tamil Nadu is all set to become a major space centre in the country, with the presence of rocket/satellite makers, rocket port, space propellant park, Defence corridor and aerospace park. | 26-Feb-2024 |
PM Modi's tribute to Veer Savarkar in hi | New Delhi, Feb 26 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday paid homage to noted freedom fighter Veer Savarkar on the latter's death anniversary and said that 'nation will always remember his valiant spirit'. | 26-Feb-2024 |
Will not let child marriages happen, say | Guwahati, Feb 26 : Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday said the menace of child marriage will be eradicated from the state in the next two years, and he will not let such marriages happen. | 26-Feb-2024 |
Farmers hold candlelight marches on Punj | Chandigarh, Feb 25 : Agitating farmers on Saturday evening took out candlelight marches on the interstate borders of Punjab and Haryana to support their demands, comprising legal guarantee of the minimum support price of their crops. | 24-Feb-2024 |
Trinamool ignores Congress’ call to ke | Kolkata, Feb 24 : Congress’ desperate attempts to convince the Trinamool Congress to keep the doors for seat-sharing negotiations open do not seem to be cutting any ice with the ruling party of West Bengal. | 24-Feb-2024 |
Lok Sabha poll schedule likely to be out | New Delhi, Feb 23 : In all likelihood, the Election Commission of India (ECI) is expected to announce the schedule for the upcoming parliamentary elections on March 13-14. | 23-Feb-2024 |
Greece sees India playing a key role in | New Delhi, Feb 22 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Greek counterpart, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, inaugurated the Raisina Dialogue -- India’s flagship conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics -- on Wednesday evening. | 22-Feb-2024 |
SC to review Chandigarh mayoral poll rec | New Delhi, Feb 19 : The Supreme Court on Monday said that it would examine the ballot papers of the Chandigarh mayoral polls and the entire video recording of counting day on Tuesday, citing concerns about potential horse-trading. | 19-Feb-2024 |
Kiren Rijiju counters Rahul's OBC barb o | New Delhi, Feb 19 : Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday strongly countered Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s allegations of ‘discrimination’ against the Other Backward Class (OBC) community in the country’s top bureaucratic set-up. | 19-Feb-2024 |
Sandeshkhali horror: BJP blasts Bengal P | New Delhi, Feb 19 : Amid heart-wrenching reports of molestation, rape and torture of women, belonging to a particular community, in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali allegedly by the goons of Trinamool Congress (TMC), the state BJP unit on Monday lodged a complaint with the National Commission for Women (NCW) and demanded strict against the state police for revealing the identity of rape victims. | 19-Feb-2024 |
Setback for CPI(M) as Kerala HC upholds | Kochi, Feb 19 : In a setback to the ruling CPI(M), the Kerala High Court on Monday upheld the conviction of 12 persons in the 2012 murder of T.P Chandrasekharan, a former top leader of the party in Kozhikode. | 19-Feb-2024 |
Calcutta HC allows LoP to visit Sandeshk | Kolkata, Feb 19 : A single-judge Bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Monday, allowed the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, to visit those places in Sandeshkhali where Section 144 has been withdrawn. Following the court order, Adhikari plans to reach the area on Tuesday. | 19-Feb-2024 |
Rahul's Kashi temple visit: Cong says ph | New Delhi, Feb 18 : Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday visited the famous Kashi Temple in Varanasi -- Lok Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi -- and offered prayers to Lord Vishwanath. | 17-Feb-2024 |
Not encroached on the land allotted to t | New Delhi, Feb 16 : The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has filed an application before the Supreme Court saying that it has not encroached on the land allotted to the Delhi High Court and the premises was officially allotted to it by the Delhi government in May 2015. | 16-Feb-2024 |
Voices of protest over Sandeshkhali cris | Kolkata, Feb 16 : The voices of protest from different corners of West Bengal as well as society over the alleged sexual harassment of women at Sandeshkhali by Trinamool Congress leaders should not fade out at any cost, Bollywood actor and BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty said here on Friday. | 16-Feb-2024 |
'Miffed' with local leadership, Trinamoo | Kolkata, Feb 15 : Actress-politician Mimi Chakraborty, who's the Trinamool Congress MP from Jadavpur in Kolkata, announced her decision to resign as a Lok Sabha member after meeting Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee here on Thursday. | 15-Feb-2024 |
TN Govt won’t be cowed down by Guv Rav | Chennai, Feb 15 : Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, MK Stalin said on Thursday that his government was challenging autocratic rule and would not be cowed down by the “childish behaviour” of Tamil Nadu Governor, RN Ravi. | 15-Feb-2024 |
Rahul pledges guarantee on MSP but Cong | New Delhi, Feb 14 : In a redux of the farmers protest in 2020-21, a sizeable number of farmers marched from their villages in Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, as part of ‘Chalo Delhi’ agitation to seek government’s nod and preferably a legislation to implement their demands. Minimum Support Price (MSP) is their chief demand, this time. | 14-Feb-2024 |
PM Modi launches Rs 75,000-cr rooftop so | New Delhi, Feb 13 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched the Rs 75,000 crore rooftop solar scheme for providing free electricity to consumers. | 13-Feb-2024 |
Protesting farmers damage barricades at | Chandigarh, Feb 13 : Protesting farmers on Tuesday damaged multi-layer barricades put up by the police to stop them at the border, by removing cement and barbed wire fencing with tractors. | 13-Feb-2024 |
Bengal school job case: Calcutta HC asks | Kolkata, Feb 13 : A single-judge Bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Tuesday, directed the West Bengal Government to file an affidavit explaining why there was a necessity to create super-numeric posts for selection in state-run schools. | 13-Feb-2024 |
No one can prevent Modi from becoming PM | Bengaluru, Feb 13 : Former Karnataka Chief Minister and JD (S) Karnataka President H.D. Kumaraswamy on Monday said that no one can prevent Narendra Modi from becoming Prime Minister for the third consecutive term. | 13-Feb-2024 |
SC disposes of CBI's plea against interi | New Delhi, Feb 13 : The Supreme Court on Monday disposed of the special leave petition filed by the CBI against the January 2023 decision of the Bombay High Court granting interim bail to former ICICI Bank chief Chanda Kochhar in the alleged Videocon loan fraud case. | 13-Feb-2024 |
Allahabad HC to hear Muslim's plea on Gy | Prayagraj (UP), Feb 12 : The Allahabad High Court on Monday adjourned till February 15 the hearing on a plea challenging the Varanasi district court order allowing Hindu prayers in a cellar of the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi. | 12-Feb-2024 |
Setback to Cong MLA as SC upholds Kerala | New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 12 : In a jolt to the Congress legislator, K. Babu, the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed his petition challenging the maintainability of the election petition filed by CPI(M) leader M. Swaraj in the Kerala High Court that challenged the former's election from the Thripunithura constituency in the 2021 Assembly elections. | 12-Feb-2024 |
BJP will win 370 seats in LS polls: PM M | Bhopal, Feb 11 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the BJP -- without its alliance partners -- will win 370 seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. | 11-Feb-2024 |
RG's regressive caste politics won't tak | New Delhi, Feb 11 : Is Rahul Gandhi cutting himself off from the youth with his caste politics? For some time, he has been consistently talking about caste and each of his public speeches is heavily loaded with references, often in a clear provocative style. | 11-Feb-2024 |
Sandeshkhali violence: Guv seeks report | Kolkata, Feb 11 : West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose on Saturday sought a detailed report from the state government within the next 24 hours on the on-ground situation in Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district, where Section 144 has been imposed while internet service has also been suspended. | 11-Feb-2024 |
Ahead of Feb 12 floor test, RJD MLAs cam | Patna, Feb 11 : Ahead of the vote of trust of the NDA government in the BIhar Assembly, the RJD called all its MLAs for a meeting at the residence of party Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday evening. | 11-Feb-2024 |
Amit Shah visits K'taka ahead of upcomin | Mysuru, Feb 11 : Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrived in Karnataka's Mysuru in the early hours of Sunday and will take part in a meeting on the upcoming Lok Sabha elections with party leaders. | 11-Feb-2024 |
Surprised by ED case, says IRS officer W | Mumbai, Feb 10 : IRS officer Sameer Wankhede on Saturday expressed surprise over an alleged money-laundering case lodged against him by the ED, but assured he would cooperate fully with the probe agency. | 10-Feb-2024 |
Human Rights Commission raids B'luru pol | Bengaluru, Feb 10 : Members of the Karnataka Human Rights Commission raided the Amruthahalli police station on Saturday after a family of an accused filed a complaint that the accused has been illegally detained for over 10 days in a theft case. | 10-Feb-2024 |
PM Modi lauds MPs for taking 30% pay cut | New Delhi, Feb 10 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded the Parliamentarians on Saturday for setting new benchmarks in House proceedings and leading the nation by example. | 10-Feb-2024 |
Ram Temple debate: What Amit Shah said o | New Delhi, Feb 10 : Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s devotion and strict adherence to ascetic rituals, as suggested under ‘Yam Niyam’ and said that he started ‘Bhakti ka Andalon’ ahead of the Pran Pratistha ceremony in the grand Ram Temple complex. | 10-Feb-2024 |
MP BJP in-charge for LS election miffed | Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Feb 9 : The in-charge for the Lok Sabha polls for Madhya Pradesh, Mahendra Singh, has expressed disappointment over several BJP MLAs not taking the central leadership's guideline for the coming Lok Sabha election seriously and warned them not to repeat the mistake again, sources privy to the development said. | 09-Feb-2024 |
Being Arundhathi Subramaniam: One part g | New Delhi, Feb 9 : She says it has been exciting to smell the danger in their voice. That it has been an infuriating journey too -- for whenever she thought she had a hold on the content, someone would parachute in. There would then be chaos, albeit a grateful one | 09-Feb-2024 |
U'Khand: Violence breaks out in Haldwani | Haldwani (Uttarakhand), Feb 8 : Tension prevailed here on Thursday after several establishments, including a mosque and a madarsa, which were illegally constructed on government land, were demolished. | 08-Feb-2024 |
India partners with Russia as it sees US | Washington, Feb 8 : Asserting that India has always played it smart, Indian-American Republican Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley said that the country partners with Russia as it doesn't trust the US to win and lead. | 08-Feb-2024 |
White Paper on Economy: UPA mismanagemen | New Delhi, Feb 8 : Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented a 59-page 'White Paper' in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, highlighting the economic mismanagement by the erstwhile United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, and comparing the country’s economic performance between the UPA years and 10 years of the Narendra Modi government. | 08-Feb-2024 |
BJD and BJP governing Odisha in partners | Bhubaneswar, Feb 7 : On the second day of his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Odisha, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday hit out at Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) saying that both these parties are governing Odisha in partnership. | 07-Feb-2024 |
SC deprecates ex parte orders by NGT; sa | New Delhi, Feb 7 : The practice of passing ex parte orders and the imposition of damages amounting to crores of rupees by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has irked the Supreme Court. | 07-Feb-2024 |
PM Modi cites Nehru's letter to then CMs | New Delhi, Feb 7 : If Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reply to Motion of Thanks to President’s address in Lok Sabha was directed at frontal attack on Congress, his address in Upper House centered around laying out NDA’s roadmap for growth while also littered with jibes at grand old party and the Gandhi family. | 07-Feb-2024 |
Bengal police face Calcutta HC’s ire o | Kolkata, Feb 7 : The West Bengal Police on Tuesday faced the ire of the Calcutta High Court over the alleged lackadaisical statement recording in a mystery death case of a local BJP leader in the South 24 Parganas district of the state. | 06-Feb-2024 |
Indian Navy intercepts suspicious vessel | Mumbai, Feb 7 : The Indian Navy has intercepted a small vessel reportedly originating from Kuwait after it entered into Indian territorial waters, officials said here on Tuesday. | 06-Feb-2024 |
7 burnt alive, several injured in fire i | Bhopal, Feb 6 : At least seven people died and several others were injured after a massive fire broke out at a firecrackers factory in Harda district of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday. | 06-Feb-2024 |