The BJP has suspended its leader Sanjeev Gupta, whose son Sachin Gupta is absconding after being named as an accused in the printing of duplicate NCERT books worth Rs 35 crore. While 12 people have so far been arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police in connection with this case, Gupta remains at large. An FIR […]
Rajsamand MP, Diya Kumari, through her tweets and a letter sent to Union Minister of Environment and Forests, Prakash Javadekar, recently, raised a demand to issue necessary guidelines to the state government for investigating the causes of the recent tiger deaths so that such incidents do not recur. The MP, through her tweets on Sunday, […]
Women artisans of Varanasi have sent wooden rakhis for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the soldiers at Galwan Valley. The rakhis have been handed over to the Prime Minister’s parliamentary office in Varanasi. The craftswomen, Shalini, Vandana, Reeta, Pushpa and Sitam have also sent a letter to Modi, requesting him to ensure that the […]
Veteran Congress leader and West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) president Somen Mitra died at a city hospital early on Thursday. He was 78. Mitra was hospitalised here with increased creatinine level, fever and respiratory troubles. He was undergoing dialysis. According to sources, Mitra was admitted to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a private […]
Senior Congress leader Randeep Surjewala on Monday said that the party has kept its doors open for Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot and his MLAs. Addressing the media in Jaipur, Surjewala said, “Pilot should tell us when he will come to attend the CLP (Congress Legislature Party) meeting. We have kept our doors open […]
The greed of Ashok Gehlot to keep his power intact and the hunger of Sachin Pilot to stay strong in the larger picture is the reason for the tussle which triggered the Congress crisis in Rajasthan. Since the Congress party formed its government in Rajasthan, there were two power circles created, one being led by […]
Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa would work from his official residence for a few days, as some staff at his home office have tested Covid-19 positive, an official said on Friday. The Chief Minister, who had not come in contact with the infected staffers, took to Twitter to announce that he was healthy. “Yediyurappa, 78, […]
After the success in taming coronavirus in Dharavi, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, here on Thursday, called upon the 838 non-government organisations (NGOs) to ‘adopt slums’ to make Mumbai Covid-19-free. Addressing the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials and administrators, Thackeray said the NGOs could act as a link between the civic administration and the citizens at […]
The Congress may be upset with the UP government after the Kanpur shootout in which 8 police personnel were killed, with party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi alleging that the state government was indulging in “jugglery” of figures on crime, but Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath seems to have the backing of the top Bharatiya Janata Party […]
The seizure of 30 kg of gold from a diplomatic consignment at the Trivandrum International Airport has snowballed into a major political controversy in Kerala as the prime suspect of the smuggling racket, Swapna Suresh, a woman who wears many hats, happens to be close to the ruling Left Democratic Front government in the state. […]