Three days after he took the oath as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath on Monday distributed portfolios to the newly-inducted ministers in his Cabinet, keeping the all-important Home Ministry with himself. Vigilance and Personnel are among the 25 departments he has kept with himself.Meanwhile, Deputy Chief Minister Brijesh Pathak will head Medical […]
SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking quashing of cases registered against him by the Punjab Police under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. Majithia, who was given protection from arrest till February 23 by the Supreme Court in view of the February 20 assembly polls to contest […]
An accident was averted at the Delhi airport on Monday after a SpiceJet passenger flight collided with an electric pole before take off. Passengers on board the Jammu-bound flight were later shifted to a different aircraft, according to news agency ANI. An investigation has been launched into the matter.Sharing details about the incident, a SpiceJet […]
The Uttar Pradesh assembly saw a moment of candid exchange of greetings between chief minister Yogi Adityanath and Akhilesh Yadav, the leader of opposition, on Monday. The two rivals were seen shaking hands and greeting each other with smiles in a video tweeted by news agency ANI. The brief bonhomie was witnessed as UP’s newly-elected […]
The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Monday arrested two terrorists belonging to terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba in Sunnergund area of Budgam. Several incriminating materials, arms and ammunition were recovered from the arrested terrorists. The Budgam police along with the Indian Army arrested Waseem Ahmed Ganai and Iqbal Ashraf Sheikh from Sunnergund area of the the town. Incriminating […]
Majeed Memon, senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader, has said the Opposition in India needed to introspect about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s populairyt not just the country but across the world despite creating “divisions in society”. On Sunday, the senior advocate took to Twitter to shower praise on Modi saying there must be some qualities […]
Five Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators, including leader of the opposition Suvendu Adhikari and the party’s chief whip Manoj Tigga, were suspended from the West Bengal Legislative Assembly after a fight broke out between the MLAs of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the main opposition BJP in the House on Monday. While a TMC […]
Banking services were partially impacted on Monday as a section of bank employees did not report for work in support of the two-day nationwide general strike called by central trade unions. However, there was hardly any impact on the functioning of new generation private sector banks.Transactions at many public sector banks have been impacted as […]
