Prime minister Narendra Modi pitched for speedy release of 350,000 undertrial prisoners languishing in jails for years and requested the chief ministers and chief justices of high courts to resolve this issue on priority.
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19th Dec 2025 | Updated at 09:32pm 19th Dec 2025
CM Sharma visits UK to usher investments into ‘Rising Rajasthan’
The Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma, Deputy CM Diya Kumari with delegates visited London last week, to host an investor meet. The afternoon was organised by FICCI and High Commission of India at Taj 51 Buckingham Gate, and was attended...
Punjab govt to move SC against governor
Chandigarh: The two-day Punjab assembly session was cut short by a day after chief minister Bhagwant Mann informed the House that since governor Banwarilal Purohit had not given assent to the three money Bills, his government would resume the...
Gaganyaan test flight's crew module successfully recovered by Navy
Hours after the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) scientists successfully conducted the Gaganyaan failure test, the Navy’s Eastern Naval Command recovered the Crew Module (CM) from the Bay of Bengal. Isro chief S Somanath said the crew...
KCR unveils poll promises to counter Congress' guarantees
Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) unveiled its own set of promises ahead of the November 30 assembly polls to counter Congress’s “six guarantees”, setting the stage for a competitive electoral race as the party led by CM K Chandrasekhar...
TMC stands for 'terror, mafia, corruption': Nadda
Kolkata: Launching a frontal attack on the Mamata Banerjee-led regime in Bengal, BJP national president J P Nadda said that the time has come to bid farewell to the jungle raj of the TMC, which stands for ’Terror, Mafia, Corruption’.
Encroachment row: Didi gives Amartya Sen land deed
Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday handed over land record documents of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s residence in Santiniketan to the celebrated economist, dismissing the claims of the current Visva-Bharati dispensation that he was illegally...
Vibrant Gujarat roadshow held in Mumbai
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani held a roadshow in Mumbai on November 26, for the ninth edition of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2019
Manchester airport delivers major boost to north with new Mumbai connection
Jet Airways’ five-times-a-week service from Manchester to Mumbai took for the first time this morning, at a celebration attended by Aviation Minister, Baroness Liz Sugg and hundreds of guests from across the region.
BJP president J P Nadda during his one-day to Gujarat said that the state is a “laboratory” for his party for matters pertaining to governance and party organization. “Gujarat is a laboratory of governance and party organization (for the BJP)....
Gujarat and Maharashtra celebrated their foundation day on Sunday, May 1, with President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi extending greetings to people of the two states on the occasion. On this day in 1960, the former state...
The proposed “Hindu Mahapanchayat” at Dada Jalalpur village near Roorkee in Haridwar district was stopped and its supposed organiser, Swami Anand Swaroop, was put under preventive detention in the morning while trying to enter the village and...
India reported over 22,200 fresh Covid-19 cases during the week (April 25-May 1), up more than 41% from the previous week's tally of nearly 15,800. Last week, cases had seen a 96% surge over the preceding seven days. Delhi, Haryana and UP accounted...
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) announced it had seized more than £550 million in assets from the Indian subsidiary of Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, saying it had made illegal remittances to foreign entities and shown them as royalty payments.
Four kids were injured when crude bombs, which they started playing with thinking to be balls, exploded in West Bengal's Malda district, police said.
Kolkata: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and state governor Jagdeep Dhankhar found themselves praising each other instead of trying to fend off acerbic attacks...
Kolkata: The West Bengal government has decided to write to the Centre urging it to increase the allotment of IAS and IPS officers as the state administration...
Two debt-ridden farmers from Punjab’s Bathinda district ended their lives last week. Bharatiya Kisan Union claimed both the suicides were linked to loss of wheat yield. Jaspal Singh (39) from Miserkhana village committed suicide by jumping before...
