Day before Uttarakhand goes to polls, senior Congress leader Harish Rawat said nobody in the party had any objections to his name as the chief ministerial candidate, news agency ANI reported. On the issue of him not being announced as the Chief Ministerial candidate unlike Punjab, Rawat said the move was strategic. “I do politics of […]
Targeting Charanjit Singh Channi ahead of next week’s single-phase assembly elections in Punjab, Union home minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Shah on Sunday sought to know if the chief minister, who failed to provide a secure route to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, would be able to keep the state safe. “Channi sahib […]
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday declared that a girl wearing hijab will become the prime minister of India.The Lok Sabha MP from Hyderabad tweeted a 43-second video wherein he is heard saying that girls wearing hijab will achieve greater heights. “The women wearing hijab will become doctor, collector, magistrates, businesswomen and so […]
The Udupi district administration has imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC in areas around all high schools in the district from Monday till February 19. The move comes as part of a precautionary measure as the schools are reopening on Monday after the holiday declared by the state government in view of the […]
The central government on Sunday announced the approval of the continuation of the umbrella scheme for modernization and improvement of police forces in states and Union territories. The ministry of home affairs said in a statement that the umbrella scheme of Modernisation of Police Forces (MPF) has been approved for the period 2021-22 to 2025-26. […]
Rescuers retrieved the body of a second woman from under the debris of a partially collapsed 18-floor apartment block late on Saturday night, more than 60 hours after the incident. The body of Sunita Shrivastava, which was spotted under the debris on Friday, was pulled out at 11:30 pm by the rescue team, a senior […]
Seven labourers were rescued while two others were still trapped after an under-construction tunnel caved in at Sleemanabad in Madhya Pradesh’s Katni district, officials said on Sunday. The tunnel of the Bargi canal project had caved in late Saturday night, trapping nine labourers. Seven of them were so far pulled out from the debris, Madhya […]
Dense fog conditions during night and morning hours are very likely to prevail in isolated places over northern parts of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh during the next 24 hours, according to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). Meanwhile, Saharanpur city engulfed in dense fog, resulting in low visibility on Sunday morning. Parts of southern Tamil […]
India registered 44,877 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in last 24 hours, taking the daily positivity rate marginally down to 3.17 per cent, the Union health ministry bulletin showed on Sunday morning. A total of 684 people succumbed to the viral infection in the span of one day, taking the death toll to […]
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday set up a new 20-member national working committee of the party and dissolved the previous one formed in 2017, dropping a few prominent names. On February 2, Banerjee was re-elected as the party’s chairperson. Till the time she decides upon the new office bearers of the national working […]