NEW DELHI: Indians have voted Indore in Madhya Pradesh as the cleanest city in the country, while Gonda in Uttar Pradesh has been found to be the dirtiest, the government said on Thursday. Bhopal, also in MP, occupies the second best spot among 434 cities, followed by Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and Surat in Gujarat, […]
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala government said the remonetisation process of the Centre has not resolved the currency shortage felt in the state and demanded that the union government correct its policy. Finance Minister T M Thomas Isaac while replying to a calling attention on the matter in the assembly said Kerala would take up the currency shortage […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the Muslim community to ensure that the triple talaq issue was not politicised, and hoped that intellectuals from the community would come forward to fight the practice. Addressing an event marking the birth anniversary of Kannada philosopher Basaveshwar here, Modi voiced the hope that Muslims in India would […]
THIRUVANATHAPURAM: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said there would be no compromise on removing illegal encroachers on government land in Munnar and rejected the opposition’s charge that the eviction drive had been stopped. He was replying to a notice for an adjournment motion moved in the state assembly by the Congress-led UDF Opposition on the recent […]
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court ordered the reinstatement of ousted Kerala DGP T.P. Senkumar, sending out a clear message that police officers cannot be made scapegoats by politicians in power. A Bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and Dipak Gupta held that Senkumar has been unfairly treated by the newly formed government. The decision is […]
KABUL: More than 140 Afghan soldiers were killed and wounded in a coordinated Taliban attack on an army base in northern Afghanistan, the country’s defence ministry said today. “The majority of our soldiers were offering Friday prayers” at the time of the assault, the ministry said in a statement, adding that “over 100 Afghan army […]
MALAPPURAM: IUML leader and and sitting legislator P.K. Kunhalikutty won the Malappuram Lok Sabha by election by a margin of 1.71 lakh votes. Kunhalikutty maintained a steady lead right from the beginning. The Left democratic Front (LDF) has improved its vote share by almost one lakh more compared to 2014 elections. Meanwhile, the BJP suffered […]
NEW DELHI: The Centre’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party won assembly bypolls in Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Assam on Thursday while it was leading in Rajasthan as results poured in for the nine seats where elections were held recently. There was some good news for the Congress in Karnataka, where it won both the […]