Security forces detected and destroyed an improvised explosive device planted alongside the Rajouri-Gurdan road early on Saturday, thus foiling a terrorist plot, police said.According to a police spokesperson, information was received about some suspicious movement at Gurdan Chawa village on Rajouri-Gurdan road on Friday night. Joint teams of the police and Army personnel launched a […]
Trinamool Congress candidates have taken the lead over their rivals in both the Asansol Lok Sabha constituency and the Ballygunge assembly segment, after initial rounds of counting for by-polls to the two seats, election officials said on Saturday.In Ballygunge, Babul Supriyo is ahead of CPI(M)’s Saira Shah Halim by 4,676 votes, after three rounds of […]
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has announced 300 units of free electricity for residents of the state with effect from July 1. The state government made the announcement formally on Saturday, a month after Mann became CM.The CM had On Thursday announced at a press conference in Jalandhar that people of Punjab would be given […]
Tomorrow Government of Punjab shall be transferring more than Rs. 2000 crores into farmers bank accounts in lieu of MSP payments. Disclosing this today, a spokesperson of the State Government said that Rs. 828 crore had already been transferred to the farmers so far. Now the Department has processed and approved payments worth Rs. 2137 […]
With an eye on the assembly elections later this year, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Friday announced several poll sops on the occasion of the 75th Himachal Day at the state-level function held at Chamba. Chief Minister announced 50 per cent discount on travelling in HRTC buses for women, which would cost the exchequer […]
Militants shot dead a sarpanch in an orchard at Goush-bugh village of Pattan in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Friday evening.A police official said a sarpanch was shot dead by suspected militants in an orchard at Goush-bugh village. The sarpanch has been identified as Manzoor Ahmad Bangroo of Goush-bugh and is said to be associated […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the country will get a record number of new doctors in the coming 10 years due to the central government’s plan of establishing a medical college in every district. Addressing the inaugural ceremony of the KK Patel Super Speciality Hospital in Gujarat’s Bhuj district via video conferencing, […]
Gujarat Congress leader Hardik Patel has refused rumours he plans to leave the party just months before the assembly election. “There is a rumour that I am leaving Congress, I do not know who is spreading so,” Patel, who joined the Congress in March 2019, said at an event in Surat on Thursday. “I have […]
Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday yet again attacked the Congress amid protests over the death of a contractor this week that has prompted the state minister, KS Eshwarappa, to announce that he would step down. The 73-year-old minister on Thursday said he would quit amid the growing opposition pressure. As the Congress held […]
Tremors were felt in Arunachal Pradesh after an earthquake of magnitude 5.3 struck China’s Qinghai on Friday morning. According to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS), the earthquake occurred at 1176 km north of Pangin in Arunachal Pradesh. The NCS on its Twitter handle wrote, “Earthquake of Magnitude:5.3, Occurred on 15-04-2022, 06:56:19 IST, Lat: 38.62 […]