Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday flayed Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala for swearing in BJP’s B.S. Yeddyurappa as Chief Minister and accused him of “subverting the Constitution”. “What else do you expect from a RSS Governor?” Amarinder Singh said in a statement here. The Chief Minister, who is a senior Congress leader, expressed concern […]
Securities market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has warned state-owned Punjab National Bank (PNB) over the delay in regulatory disclosures to stock exchanges with regard to the Nirav Modi fraud case. According to a BSE filing on Thursday, PNB said that it has received a letter from SEBI on Tuesday “regarding disclosures […]
Reliance Power has divested its entire holding in Jharkhand Integrated Power Limited (JIPL) to Jharkhand Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd for Rs 112.64 crore, a regulatory filing by the company said here on Thursday. “The company has transferred its entire holding of 1,49,900 equity shares of Rs 10 each, aggregating to Rs 1,499,000 held in Jharkhand […]
The Congress in Goa on Thursday demanded that Governor Mridula Sinha follow in the footsteps of her Karnataka couterpart Vajubhai Vala and invite the Congress, which emerged as the single largest party in the Assembly after the 2017 Assembly elections, to form the government in the coastal state. “If the Karnataka Governor can invite the […]
Requesting to maintain the current level of water supply to Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has written to his Haryana counterpart Manohar Lal Khattar, an official statement said on Thursday. Kejriwal has also written a letter to Delhi Lt. Governor Anil Baijal. The Chief Minister requested the Lt. Governor to persuade Haryana to continue the […]
The ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal took an early lead in all three tiers of the panchayat polls after nearly five hours of counting on Thursday. According to the latest trend, Trinamool went ahead in almost all the Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti seats across 20 districts where rural election were held on May […]
Amid high political drama, the Supreme Court early on Thursday didn’t stop B.S. Yeddyurappa from taking oath as Karnataka’s new Chief Minister but the legal battle for the BJP leader and his party is far from over. After a rare midnight hearing that ran for hours, the court refused to stay the oath taking ceremony […]
BJP legislature party leader B.S. Yeddyurappa took oath as the Karnataka Chief Minister here on Thursday hours after the Supreme Court declined to stay his swearing-in ceremony. Governor Vajubhai Vala administered the oath of office and secrecy to Yeddyurappa at 9 a.m. at the Raj Bhavan amid tight security. Clad in all-white and sporting a […]
Shashank Manohar will serve a second term as the independent Chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) after he was the sole nominee put forward by the ICC Board. Mr Manohar, who became the first independent ICC Chairman in 2016, will continue for a second two-year term following his unopposed election. During the last two […]
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Jammu and Kashmir on May 19, the Border Security Forces (BSF) have confirmed that five militants have sneaked into the Indian side. BSF Director General K.K. Sharma, who arrived here on Tuesday, after a trooper was killed in firing by the Pakistani rangers in Samba district, confirmed […]