New Delhi: The RSS-affiliated Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) on Monday announced a protest rally of farmers in the national capital on December 19 to press their demands for increasing financial assistance under the PM Kisan scheme and removing GST on agricultural equipment and fertilisers. BKS all-India secretary K Sai Reddy said the national executive, at […]
Mumbai: More than 600 exotic species rescued by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) and Customs department at the Mumbai airport have been shifted to a care facility in Gujarat, a forest official said on Monday. Acting on a tip-off, the Mumbai Zonal Unit of the DRI intercepted the consignment last week after it arrived […]
Mumbai: One person was killed and two others injured in an explosion on Sunday at the power station of the Maharashtra Power Generation Company at Uran in Navi Mumbai, police said. Prima facie, the boiler pump exploded at the gas turbine power station of Mahagenco in Uran, about 48 km from Mumbai, which triggered a […]
Chandigarh: President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday said the number of girl students should be increased in technical educational institutions to give more impetus to the progress of the country. Murmu was addressing 52nd convocation and closing ceremony of centenary year celebrations of Punjab Engineering College (PEC) in Chandigarh. The president lauded the institute and said […]
Jaipur: Unidentified miscreants allegedly chopped off the feet of a woman, said to be more than 100 years old, to steal the silver anklets she was wearing here on Sunday, police said. The incident took place in the Galta Gate area in the morning hours, they added. The victim, Jamuna Devi, a resident of Meena […]
New Delhi: Delhi minister Rajendra Pal Gautam on Sunday resigned from his post, amid a controversy over his presence at a religious conversion event where Hindu deities were allegedly denounced. The BJP had attacked him and the Aam Aadmi Party after a video went viral showing him attending the event on October 5 where hundreds […]
Washington: It’s the sovereign right of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to decide on the oil production capacities, Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri said Friday. Refraining from commenting on the controversial decision of OPEC on cutting oil production by two million barrels a day, which has taken the world […]
Guwahati: BJP president J P Nadda on Saturday claimed no other party in the country has the “ideology, intention and strength” to fight the might of the saffron party, which is “on the rise”. Addressing a party workers’ meet here after inaugurating the new office of the Assam BJP, Nadda asserted that his party is […]
New Delhi: Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has accused Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his ministers of running away from their constitutional duties and said he has not received any “satisfactory reply” from the AAP government over issues related to excise policy, power subsidy and other matters raised by him. Amid an ongoing letter war […]
New Delhi: India on Friday said rights of people in China’s Xinjiang region should be “respected and guaranteed” but noted that its decision to abstain from a resolution on the concerns at the UN human rights commission was in line with the practice of not voting on country-specific resolutions. It is for the first time […]