Soon after resigning as chief minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar on Tuesday said all MPs and MLAs of the JD(U) are at a consensus that the party should leave the NDA. “All MPs and MLAs are at a consensus that we should leave the NDA,” said Kumar after submitting his resignation to Bihar Governor Phagu […]
The Nitish Kumar-Lalu Yadav partnership is set to return in Bihar as the JD(U) has finally broken ties with the BJP. Nitish Kumar is said to have sought a meeting with Governor Phagu Chauhan at 4 pm. Around 160 MLAs of the RJD and the JD(U) have sworn allegiance to the ruling coalition. After holding […]
The unemployment rate dropped by 0.6% between 2019-20 and 2020-21 from 4.8% to 4.2%, the Centre told Parliament on Monday citing data from statistics and programme implementation ministry’s Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS). “The PLFS data indicates that the unemployment rate has a declining trend in rural areas as well as at all India level,” […]
India’s PV Sindhu took another giant step towards permanently etching her name in the badminton history books by winning her maiden Commonwealth Games individual gold and completing a hat-trick of medals at the Games with a win over Michelle Li of Canada in the women’s singles final in Birmingham. Sindhu has now bettered the medal […]
A constable died here after he was hit by a speeding car being driven by a lawyer who has represented the Bishnoi community in a black buck poaching case against Bollywood actor Salman Khan, according to police. The incident took place on Friday night near Jhalamand circle where Constable Ramesh Saran (27) was on night […]
A Delhi court on Monday awarded three-year jail term to former coal secretary HC Gupta in a coal scam case related to irregularities in allocation of a coal block in Maharashtra, a lawyer associated with the case said. Special Judge Arun Bhardwaj also awarded two-year imprisonment to former joint secretary in the Ministry of Coal […]
Three women were killed in a stampede outside a temple in Rajasthan’s Sikar district early on Monday, police said. Long queues were seen outside the Khatu Shyam temple as devotees had gathered on the occasion of ‘Gyaras’, an auspicious day as per Hindu calendar. Three women were killed in a stampede outside a temple in […]
Star Indian boxer Amit Panghal avenged his last Commonwealth Games final loss by clinching the men’s flyweight (51kg) gold while Nitu Ghanghas (48kg) reigned supreme on her debut appearance here on Sunday.In the evening, Nikhat Zareen won gold medal after beating Northern Ireland pugilist by unanimous verdict in final (50kg). In athletics, Eldhose Paul led […]
Indian boxers Nitu Ghanghas won the women’s 48kg Commonwealth Games title before Amit Panghal (men’s 51kg) joined her on the top of the podium, here on Sunday.Panghal bettered his silver from the last edition as he out-punched European Championship silver medallist England’s Kiaran MacDonald by a 5-0 verdict in the men’s flyweight. Nitu, on the […]
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday said the satellites placed on its maiden Small Satellite Launch Vehicle “are no longer usable” as the SSLV-D1 placed them in an elliptical orbit instead of a circular one. It said failure of a logic to identify a sensor failure and go for a salvage action caused […]