The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has called for a 12-hour 'Bengal Bandh' on Wednesday, August 28, to protest against the police action on those who participated in the march to the state secretariat, Nabanna, on Tuesday.
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24th Mar 2026 | Updated at 07:53am 24th Mar 2026
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...
West Midlands delegation visits Ahmedabad to boost ties
A 37-member West Midlands delegation, led by Mayor Richard Parker and officials including Manoj Ladwa and Neil Rami, visited Ahmedabad to strengthen economic, cultural, and educational ties, coinciding with the inaugural Commonwealth Connect...
Somnath Swabhiman Parv honours India’s spiritual resilience
The Somnath Swabhiman Parv, held at the first Jyotirlinga in Gujarat, marks one thousand years since the first attack on the Somnath Temple in 1026. This national event, instead of focusing on destruction, celebrates India’s resilience, faith,...
BJP and INLD have urged Election Commission in separate letters to consider deferring the Oct 1 assembly polls in Haryana for a better turnout.
Tripura is grappling with a devastating flood crisis as 31 people have lost their lives and over 100,000 residents are now living in relief camps
The ‘Charaideo Maidam’, a 700-year-old mound-burial system of the Ahom dynasty in eastern Assam, has been included in the Unesco World Heritage site list under the ‘cultural property’ category. The burial mounds made pyramid-like structures...
Himanta Biswa Sarma-led Assam govt introduced a Bill in the assembly on first day of autumn session, seeking to replace a state ordinance that had nullified the 89-year-old Assam Muslim Marriages and Divorces Registration Act of 1935.
Karnataka cabinet, led by CM Siddaramaiah, urged governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot to act swiftly on the pending prosecution against Union minister for heavy industry and steel HD Kumaraswamy. It also sought governor's approval for prosecution of...
At least 17 workers were killed and 50 others injured, several of them seriously, in a chemical reactor blast at Escientia Advanced Sciences at Atchutapuram SEZ in Andhra Pradesh’s Anakapalli district, last week.
The ruling NDA reached majority mark in the Rajya Sabha as nine BJP members and two from allies were elected unopposed in the by-polls for the upper house. With the nine, BJP's strength has reached 96, taking NDA to 112 in the upper house. Among...
A small tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of the Indian Army inadvertently strayed across the LoC into Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. An officer said the drone was on a training mission when its control was lost due to a technical snag and...
India overtook China as the world’s biggest importer of Russian oil in July as Chinese refiners bought less because of lower profit margins from producing fuels, a comparison of import data showed.
