Patna: Former Lok Janshakti Party president Chirag Paswan on Sunday asserted that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s presence at RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav’s Iftar feast was a proverbial straw in the wind, which could have wide political ramifications. Paswan, who now heads a faction of the party headed by his late father Ram Vilas Paswan, […]
New Delhi: The residents of northwest Delhi’s Jahangirpuri are struggling to make ends meet and suffering due to the restrictions imposed in the area in the wake of the clashes last week, Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar claimed on Saturday. Dastidar, who led an all-women fact-finding team of the TMC to Jahangirpuri on Friday, […]
Chennai: Learning a language, even if it be one’s mother tongue, will help in one’s development Chief Justice of India N V Ramana on Saturday said and called upon the Telugus not to forget their roots. Though those living in Tamil Nadu would be learning the regional language, they should not forget their mother tongue, […]
Chandigarh: The Punjab Police has banned ‘jugad rehri’ carts made of old and condemned motorbikes for transportation of goods, citing they could become a cause for accidents. In a letter dated April 18 to police commissioners and district police chiefs in the state, the additional director general of police (traffic) directed them to launch a […]
Dehradun: Uttarakhand reported 601 unsafe deliveries in 2021-2022, marking a jump from the previous years, an RTI reply revealed. A total of 465 unsafe deliveries were recorded in the state in the year 2019-20, which rose from 559 in 2020-21 to 601 in 2021-22, data shared under the Right to Information (RTI) Act showed. The […]
Mumbai: In a veiled attack on the BJP, the Congress on Saturday said some people are creating a political controversy over the recital of Hanuman Chalisa to divert the people’s attention from the issues of unemployment and price rise. The call by Independent MP Navneet Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana to recite Hanuman […]
Pune: Maharashtra D eputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday claimed that the number of scams taking place in nationalised banks was higher than frauds reported in the cooperative banks. Speaking at an event organised by the Pune District Urban Cooperative Bank, Pawar, who is also the state finance minister, said there are discussions about […]
Bhopal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi increased the allocation of funds for the welfare of tribal communities drastically after coming to power, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said here on Friday. He was speaking at `Van Samiti Sammelan’, a program where bonus was distributed to collectors of forest produce such as Tendu leaves. This is a […]
Chennai: While the AIADMK targeted the ruling DMK on Friday in the Assembly over power cuts in Tamil Nadu, the State government blamed inadequate coal supplies by the Centre and sudden interruption in power supply from the Central pool, and hit out at the principal opposition party for a “mischievous campaign” on power outage in […]
Wearing non-ISI helmet will now attract fine in Goa Panaji: Wearing a helmet without ISI certification would be considered as riding without helmet and attract fine, Goa Police has warned. New Delhi, Apr 22 (PTI) The Delhi government on Friday made masks mandatory at public places with immediate effect, and imposed a fine of Rs […]