Voting is currently underway for the second phase of elections in UP. In this phase, two crore voters will decide the fate of 586 candidates. The assembly constituencies are spread across nine districts- Saharanpur, Bijnor, Moradabad, Sambhal, Rampur, Amroha, Budaun, Bareilly, and Shahjahanpur.Among these 55 seats, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 38 in […]
Isro’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C52 blasted off from the First Launch Pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota at the scheduled time of 5:59am on Monday morning. The launch vehicle carrying earth observation satellite EOS-04 along with two co-passenger payloads – INSPIREsat-1 and INS-2TD – lifted off from the spaceport at the end of […]
Equity indices opened in red on Monday with Sensex down by 1,256.48 points and Nifty down by 373.10 points. The 30-scrip BSE Sensex was down by 1,256.48 points or trading at 56,896.44 and down by 2.16 per cent at 9.27 am. Similarly, 50-scrip NSE Nifty was trading at 17,001.70 at 9.27 am, down by 373.10 […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday urged voters of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Goa to turn up in record numbers for the second phase of polling to strengthen the festival of democracy. He reminded the voters to first vote and do any other work with the message “pehle matdaan, fir anya koi kaam”. Polling for […]
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath exuded confidence of the BJP’s victory in Uttar Pradesh with an overwhelming majority after the first phase of the Assembly election in the state. In an interview to news agency ANI that was broadcast on a day when the state was voting in the second phase along with elections […]
The fate of 632 candidates for Uttarakhand assembly elections will be sealed today as the state votes in a single phase. Uttarakhand, which has seen 11 chief ministers in the last two decades, has voted out the incumbent government in every assembly election since the state’s formation in 2000. The Bharatiya Janata Party has the […]
Ahead of his visit to poll-bound Punjab on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday met the head of the influential Beas dera. “Earlier today, I had the honour of meeting Baba Gurinder Singh Dhillon Ji of the Radha Soami Satsang Beas. The social service initiatives of the RSSB are commendable,” PM tweeted. Beas dera […]
Amid the ongoing hijab controversy in Karnataka, state Congress leader Zameer Ahmed said on Sunday that India records a high number of rape cases because women here don’t wear hijab. Girls, when they grow up, should cover their face with veil to hide their beauty. I think that India has the highest number of rape […]
State-owned insurer Life Insurance Corporation on Sunday filed its draft papers with stock regulator Sebi for its IPO, the secretary of Department of Investment and Public Asset Management tweeted. The much talked about LIC IPO is set to hit the capital market in March.The government will sell over 31 crore equity shares of LIC, according […]
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Farooq Abdullah on Sunday lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the ongoing controversy in BJP-ruled Karnataka, which has seen protests against Muslim students wearing hijab not being allowed to enter educational institutes, and counter-protests by Hindu students against hijab on campuses. Peoples Democratic […]