Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday sought special financial package worth Rs. 1 lakh crore from Centre for the revival of state’s economy besides ensuring holistic development and welfare of its people.Bhagwant Mann called on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi here in his office at Parliament House this afternoon. Apprising the Prime Minister about […]
The West Bengal government is installing CCTV cameras on Thursday in violence-affected area of Rampurhat, Birbhum in the state, where nine people, including a local leader of the TMC died. This comes after the Calcutta high court on March 23 had directed the installation of CCTV cameras for 24×7 surveillance. At least 23 persons have […]
Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Thursday, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). The meeting is expected to take place at 11 am. This will be Mann’s first meeting with the Prime Minister after he was was sworn in as the chief minister last week.Though it is not […]
On the eve of Chinese Foreign Minister’s visit here, India has taken strong umbrage to Minister Wang Yi’s uncharitable remarks on Kashmir during his address to the OIC conference in Islamabad today. Not the one to take things lying down, the Narendra Modi government made it clear that Jammu and Kashmir was entirely internal affairs […]
Lalu Prasad Yadav has been re-admitted to Delhi’s All India Institute of Medicine, news agency ANI reported Wednesday afternoon. The ex-chief minister of Bihar and Rashtriya Janata Dal founder was discharged from AIIMS just hours earlier – at 3 am – before he was brought back to the hospital’s emergency department, sources told news agency […]
Civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Wednesday underlined the importance of the aviation industry for the Indian economy and said that the government has set a target of creating 220 new airports by 2025. Scindia made the announcement in the Lok Sabha while responding to demands for grants of the civil aviation ministry for 2022-23. […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday expressed his condolences to the families of the victims of the Birbhum violence which broke out in West Bengal a day ago and killed as many as eight people. Modi also offered to extend all possible help from the Union government to the Mamata Banerjee-led Bengal government with regards […]
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari told Parliament he was “emotionally forced” to announce the construction of Majuli bridge by ex-Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal. Gadkari said, “He was compelled by Sonowal to make the announcement of building Majauli Bridge over Brahmaputra so that it helped him win the elections in the state.”Gadkari said that he announce the […]
Pushkar Singh Dhami on Wednesday took oath as the Uttarakhand chief minister during a ceremony held at Parade Ground here in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Apart from Dhami, eight ministers were also administered the oath by Uttarakhand Governor Lt Gen Gurmit Singh (retd).This is 46-year-old Dhami’s second consecutive stint as chief minister.Speculation […]