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 […]
A two-day nationwide strike – called by a joint forum of central trade unions – is likely to affect banking, trasnportation, railways and power services on Monday and Tuesday. Bharat Bandh, says the Platform of Central Trade Unions and Sectoral Federations and Associations, aims to draw attention to criticism of the government policies, which have […]
Chandigarh administration’s employees, who are presently working under Punjab service rules, will now come under the central civil services rules. Among the major benefits will be enhancement of retirement age from current 58 years to 60 years. Home Minister Amit Shah today announced that the central civil services will now apply to the employees of […]
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday inaugurated several projects, including the state-of-the-art Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) here. Shah also laid foundation stones of a hostel block of commerce college, a project for constructing 240 houses for police personnel and a bus depot-cum-workshop.The Union Minister was accompanied by Punjab Governor Banwarlilal Purohit on […]
A team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) reached Bogtui village in West Bengal’s Birbhum district on Saturday and started its investigation into the violence that claimed eight lives earlier this week. Unidentified people had on March 21 set 10 houses on fire in the village, killing at least eight people, including women and […]
Yogi Adityanath on Friday took oath as Uttar Pradesh chief minister for the second term in a mega ceremony attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and top BJP leaders. Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak were also sworn in as deputy chief ministers.Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel administered the oath to Adityanath in a ceremony […]
The Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2022, which seeks to merge the three municipal corporations in the national capital, was on Friday introduced in the Lok Sabha amid objections by opposition parties. As per the Bill, the unified municipal corporation of Delhi (MCD) will be “a single, integrated and well-equipped entity”, and will not have […]
Several Russian weapon parts stand out in India’s new list of 107 defence items published on Thursday that will attract a phased import ban between December 2022 and December 2028, with the indigenisation drive covering warships, helicopters, tanks, infantry combat vehicles, missiles, ammunition and radars, officials familiar with the matter said. The list, a fresh […]