KOLKATA:West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Monday morning reached Kolkata from Kerala and straightaway left for Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district, where local women were staging protests against alleged harassment and torture by TMC leaders. The governor has already sought a comprehensive report on the Sandeshkhali situation from the state government. ”When I […]
PRAYAGRAJ:The Allahabad High Court on Monday adjourned till February 15 the hearing on a plea challenging the Varanasi district court order allowing Hindu prayers in a cellar of the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi. Justice Rohit Ranjan Agrawal passed the order on the appeal filed by the Anjuman Intezamia Masjid committee. The bench heard Punit Gupta […]
NEW DELHI:A Mumbai-bound IndiGo aircraft returned to the national capital on Friday morning, with the airline saying the plane came back as a precaution due to a “momentary foul smell”. The flight 6E 449 returned to the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) sometime after take off. In a statement, IndiGo said there was a “momentary […]
BAREILLY:Tension prevails in Bareilly after Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan, Uttar Pradesh cleric and Head of Ittehad-e-Millat Council, gave a call for ‘jail bharo’ movement after Friday prayers in protest against offering of prayers inside the Gyanvapi mosque, the police said. After the announcement by Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan, the police is taking precautionary measures and […]
NEW DELHI:Taking its ‘White Paper’ over the alleged fiscal mismanagement under the Congress-led UPA during its 10-year rule at the Centre, the BJP will present the report in every state, underscoring how the previous ruling coalition allegedly inflicted fiscal woes on the country and indulged in corruption. A top source in the BJP said the […]
NEW DELHI:CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday for accusing the opposition of trying to create a north-south divide and said the chief ministers of Delhi and Punjab joining a protest staged by Kerala government leaders shows that there is no such division. Speaking at the Left Democratic […]
CHENNAI: A total of 30 space launches — commercial and non-commercial by government and private players– are being planned from India over the next 14 months from the Indian spaceport in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, the Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) said on Thursday. Included in the proposed missions are the test […]
NEW DELHI:At least four people were injured after a portion of the Gokulpuri Metro Station boundary wall (Eastern side) crashed on the road in northeast Delhi on Thursday, an official said. Sharing the details, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (northeast) Joy Tirkey said that on Thursday “at about 11 a.m, one portion of the Gokulpuri […]
BENGALURU:The Karnataka government has banned the use and sale of both tobacco and non-tobacco hookah at public places across the state with immediate effect, aimed at safeguarding the health of its citizens and stem the tide of tobacco-related diseases. The decision was announced on Thursday by the state’s Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao. He reaffirmed […]
NEW DELHI:Amid the Karnataka Congress government’s protest against the Centre at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on Wednesday, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that their main intention is to protect the interests of the state and Kannadigas . “We are staging this protest in New Delhi to make sure the central government has all the funds that […]