Aakar Patel files contempt petition against CBI

April 8, 2022, 2:26 pm New Delhi, Apr 8 : Former Amnesty International India Chief Aakar Patel on Friday filed a contempt petition against the CBI saying he was not allowed to leave the country once again despite an order of the court. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed revision petition against the order … Read more

Rahul Gandhi meets Sharad Yadav

April 8, 2022, 2:38 pm New Delhi, April 8 : Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday met veteran leader Sharad Yadav, who recently joined the RJD, and called him his ‘Guru’. Yadav meanwhile said Rahul Gandhi should be made the Congress president. The Congress leader met Yadav at his Delhi residence on Friday. Talking to … Read more

Three-day Dairy & Food Expo kicks off at hitex in Hyderabad

April 8, 2022, 6:06 pm Hyderabad, April 8 : A three-day Dairy and Food Expo organized jointly by the Federation of Telangana Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FTCCI) and Media Day Marketing (MDM), kicked off at Hitex here on Friday. The Expo was inaugurated by Telangana Minister for Home Mohammed Mahmood Ali and Animal Husbandry … Read more

DRDO flight-tests Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet technology

April 8, 2022, 6:14 pm New Delhi, April 8 : Defence Research and Development Organisation successfully flight tested Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet booster at the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur off the coast of Odisha on Friday. The Solid Fuel Ducted Ramjet based propulsion enables the missile to intercept aerial threats at very long range at … Read more

Schemes like PM Awas empower women: Min

April 8, 2022, 2:15 pm New Delhi, April 8 : Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh on Friday said social schemes, like the housing scheme of the BJP government, focused especially on women empowerment. As BJP observes a ‘social justice fortnight’ aiming to inform people about governments social schemes, Singh held a press conference in Delhi, … Read more

Govt fears truth: Rahul on attack on journalists

April 8, 2022, 2:15 pm New Delhi, April 8 : Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Friday hit out at the ruling BJP after a photograph of about half-a-dozen individuals including a journalist stripped half-naked in a police station in Madhya Pradesh’s Sidhi district went viral in social media and said the ”New India” government was … Read more

Don’t demolish dwellings of poor: Yogi to officials

April 8, 2022, 2:25 pm Lucknow, April 8 : Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday issued strict directives that bulldozers should not move on the huts, houses and shops of the poor and action should be taken only against mafias and criminals. According to a government spokesman the CM has directed that illegal … Read more

Congress’ dig at Centre over price rise

April 7, 2022, 5:33 pm New Delhi, April 7 : The Congress on Thursday accused the Modi government of not holding a discussion over price rise in Parliament after both Houses were adjourned sine die a day ahead of schedule. “We wanted a discussion over the price rise of petrol, diesel, LPG, CNG and kerosene. … Read more

CBI files interim report of Bogtui carnage seeks Cal HC permission to probe Bhadhu Sheikh murder

April 7, 2022, 5:34 pm Kolkata, April 7 : The CBI, probing the Bogtui carnage case in which 9 people were burnt alive, on Thursday submitted its interim report before the chief judge bench and sought the Calcutta high court permission to allow the federal probe agency to investigate the Bhadu Sheikh murder case simultaneously. … Read more

Traffic and L&O will be priority: Goa DGP

April 7, 2022, 1:46 pm Panaji, April 7 : Goa Director General of Police (DGP) Jaspal Singh on Thursday said that traffic regulation besides maintaining law and order will be his priority in the coming days. Speaking to reporters after taking over the charge of the office, he said,”As the days go I will interact … Read more

Shopian operation ends as militants escape

April 7, 2022, 12:44 pm Srinagar, April 7 : An overnight anti-militancy operation in Jammu andsouth Kashmir’s Shopian district was called off on Thursday as the militants managed to escape from the area. A brief gun battle erupted in the Haripora area late Wednesday when joint teams of security forces launched a cordon and a … Read more

BSF recovers arms, ammo near IB in Jammu’s Akhnoor

April 7, 2022, 12:10 pm Jammu, April 7 : Alert troops of Border Security Force on Thursday recovered cache of arms and amm tion smuggled from across the border in Akhnoor sector here. The BSF spokesman, Jammu Frontier, S P S Sandhu, DIG said that during a special search operation launched ahead of fence in … Read more

India logs 1033 new Covid cases

April 7, 2022, 10:10 am New Delhi, April 7 : India has registered 1033 new covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total tally of cases to 4,30,31,958 in the country, as per the Health Ministry data on Thursday. As many as 43 fatalities were also recorded in the last 24 hours, taking … Read more

5 new sites allocated for nuclear power plants: Jitendra Singh

April 6, 2022, 9:24 pm New Delhi, April 6 : on Minister of State for PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh said on Wednesday that the Government has accorded ‘In-Principle’ approval for five new sites for locating nuclear power plants in the future. “On progressive completion of the projects … Read more

Pawar meets Modi, ED action on Raut discussed

April 6, 2022, 8:44 pm New Delhi, April 6 : Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday and discussed some issues related to Lakshadweep, as well as ED’s move to attach some property of Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut. In a joint press conference with NCP MP from … Read more

Current geopolitical situation demands indigenisation: Rajnath

April 6, 2022, 8:23 pm New Delhi, April 6 : A day ahead of announcing the third positive indigenisation list of defence items, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday said the “current geopolitical situation” demands indigenisation. The Minister expressed these views, while addressing the three-day Air Force Commanders’ Conference at Air Headquarters. “He brought out … Read more

Driver injured in an explosion outside Tulip garden

April 6, 2022, 3:34 pm Srinagar, April 6 : A driver of a tempo was injured in an explosion outside Srinagar’s Tulip garden this afternoon, officials said. The vehicle was parked outside the Garden. “The driver has been injured in the blast and has been shifted to hospital,” an official said. The cause of the … Read more

Over 25,000 killed in UP road accidents in two years

April 6, 2022, 5:44 pm New Delhi, April 6 : A total of 25,507 people were killed in road accidents on national highways crisscrossing Uttar Pradesh between 2018 and 2020, a data showed. The data issued by the on Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari in response to a question in Rajya Sabha … Read more

Two judges refuses to hear Deshmukh plea

April 6, 2022, 5:49 pm Mumbai, April 6 : Two judges of the Bombay High Court on Wednesday refused to hear a plea moved by former Maharashta Home Minister Anil Deshmukh challenging a CBI application for his remand in an alleged corruption case. Justice P D Naik has recused himself from hearing the plea, shortly … Read more

J&K asks businesses to fix CCTVs

April 6, 2022, 3:15 pm Srinagar, April 6 : In view of rising militant attacks, the Jammu and Kashmir government has asked business ts to install Close Circuit Televisions (CCTVs) to monitor suspicious moments of people, officials said. The orders have been issued by the Deputy Commissioners of Srinagar, Anantnag and some other districts of … Read more

Congress hits out at BJP over rising fuel price, inflation

April 6, 2022, 12:42 pm Panaji, April 6 : The Congress in Goa on Wednesday hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is celebrating its 42nd foundation, for failing to control rising fuel and gas prices along with inflation. ”On the occasion of BJP’s foundation day, we request Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, office … Read more

Paytm’s Sharma blames ‘volatile markets’

April 6, 2022, 2:18 pm Mumbai, April 6 : In a bid to regain shareholders’ confidence amid continuous decline in its share price, digital payments firm PayTm’s Founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma on Wednesday blamed “volatile market conditions” for the “significant” drop from the IPO price. In his letter to the shareholders, Sharma exuded … Read more

Govt will return land to Kashmiri Pandits

April 6, 2022, 2:29 pm New Delhi, April 6 : The government is capable of returning the land forcibly taken away from Kashmiri Pandits, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. “Those who left the Kashmir Valley due to oppression… whose land has been forcibly taken away, the … Read more

CBI arrests Anil Deshmukh

April 6, 2022, 2:35 pm Mumbai, April 6 : Former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh was on Wednesday arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with corruption allegations raised against him by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh. Deshmukh, presently lodged in Arthur Road Jail for his involvement in money laundering, … Read more

CBI grills former SSC advisor Shanti Prasad Sinha in Bengal

April 6, 2022, 11:42 am Kolkata, April 6 : The CBI has questioned former advisor of the School Service Commission (SSC) Shanti Prasad Singha (Sinha), one of the prime accused in the alleged recruitment irregularity of teaching and non-teaching staff in the West Bengal government-sponsored schools, following a directive from Calcutta High Court. Armed with … Read more

PM attacks ‘dynastic parties’, says social justice is BJP’s core ideology

New Delhi, April 6 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched an attack against ‘dynastic parties’, and stressed that the core ideology of the BJP is that of social justice, as he addressed party workers on the 42nd foundation day of the party. Stating that the ‘dynastic parties’ are hurting democracy, the Prime Minister … Read more

J&K: 2 militants killed in Kashmir gunfight

April 6, 2022, 9:13 am Srinagar, April 6 : Security forces shot dead two local militants in a gun battle in Kashmir on Wednesday morning, officials said. They said the duo were Involved in the recent killing of a Sarpanch in the city outskirts. Officials said the gunfight broke in Tral area of Awantipora sub-district … Read more

BJP celebrating foundation day functions in a big way in UP

April 6, 2022, 10:47 am Lucknow, April 6 : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is celebrating its 42nd Foundation Day with great enthusiasm in the entire state on Wednesday. This time BJP’s Foundation Day celebrations are very special in many ways particularly due to it retaining power in the state. Yogi Adityanath 2.0 government after … Read more

23rd CPI(M) Party Congress at Kannur

April 5, 2022, 12:39 pm Kannur, April 5 : The 23rd Congress of the CPI(M) will begin here in Kerala, the only state it now rules, on Wednesday to deliberate the way ahead amid continuing political domination in the country by its sworn enemy, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The April 6-10 gathering will take … Read more

42 militants killed in past 3 months in J&K

April 5, 2022, 1:49 pm Srinagar, April 5 (UN) Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh on Tuesday said 42 militants have been killed during the past three months in different encounters. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a wreath laying ceremony of paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel who … Read more

President Kovind, Dutch Deputy PM Hoeskstra name yellow tulip flowers ‘Maitri’

April 5, 2022, 1:47 pm Amsterdam, April 5 : President Ram Nath Kovind and Dutch Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra named a new breed of yellow tulip flowers ‘Maitri’ – symbolic of the special and enduring friendship between India and the Netherlands. The two leaders named the flower at Keukenhof, also known … Read more

More arties abandon Gotabaya Rajapaksa-led coalition

April 5, 2022, 12:28 pm Colombo, April 5 : Pressure further mounted on Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa after MP Ranjith Siyambalapitiya resigned as Deputy Speaker of Parliament, along with more than 40 MPs who left the coalition government, BBC reported on Tuesday. Siyambalapitiya said that he decided to resigns as the SLFP decided to … Read more

Congress takes dig at Centre over fuel prices

April 5, 2022, 12:27 pm New Delhi, April 5 : The Congress on Tuesday took a dig at the Modi government over the steep hike in prices of petrol and diesel. “The inauspicious inflation continues every day. Thirteenth installment of ‘fuel loot’. In 15 days, the prices of petrol and diesel hiked by Rs 9.20 … Read more

Gender disparity in Hindu succession law: Centre to respond

April 5, 2022, 1:09 pm New Delhi, April 5 : The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted four weeks time to the central government after hearing a petition on gender discrimination in Hindu succession law seeking appropriate direction to secure justice and dignity to women. A three-judge bench, headed by Justice DY Chandrachud, asked the Centre … Read more

Lok Sabha adjourned till noon

April 5, 2022, 11:57 am New Delhi, April 5 : The Lok Sabha witnessed protests over price rise, with the House getting adjourned halfway through the Question Hour as Opposition MPs raised slogans against the government. The members on the opposition benches were on their feet soon after the House met. Congress leader Adhir Ranjan … Read more

Partly cloudy sky, as Delhi swelters at 39C

April 5, 2022, 11:09 am New Delhi, April 5 : A heatwave continues over the Indian peninsula, with Punjab, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh standing out with severe hot areas. The Delhi-NCR on Tuesday is likely to see partly cloudy sky through the day, when mercury will touch 39 degrees, MeT said. “Heatwave spell … Read more

Lok Sabha adjourned till 2 pm,

April 5, 2022, 12:47 pm New Delhi, April 5 : The Lok Sabha witnessed repeated adjournments on Tuesday as opposition MPs protested noisily as petrol and diesel prices were hiked for the 13th time in 15 days. The protests started soon after the House met at 11 a.m. Members from the Congress, DMK, CPI-M, TMC, … Read more

Congress can’t see beyond Gandhis: Anurag Thakur

April 5, 2022, 12:41 pm New Delhi, April 5 : Congress refuses to see beyond the Gandhis even after the party was decimated in the recently fought assembly polls in five states, on Minister Anurag Thakur said on Tuesday, when Sonia Gandhi accused the ruling dispensations of making “divisive and polarising politics” the new norm. … Read more

Govt blocks 22 YouTube channels

April 5, 2022, 4:06 pm New Delhi, April 5 : The Indian government on Tuesday blocked 18 Indian and four Pakistani YouTube based news channels, three Twitter and one Facebook accounts and one news website for spreading disinformation related to India’s national security, foreign relations and public order. The blocked YouTube channels had a cumulative … Read more

AAP fields 40 candidates for GMC elections

April 5, 2022, 10:30 am Guwahati, April 5 : The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has fielded 40 candidates in the April 22 elections to the Guwahati M cipal Corporation (GMC). AAP’s Assam state coordinator Bhaben Chowdhury has that the party has fielded candidates in 40 of the total 60 GMC wards and it would form … Read more