New Delhi: Former Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday merged his nascent party, the Punjab Lok Congress, with the BJP in presence of Union...
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1st Oct 2022 | Updated at 10:35am 1st Oct 2022
Punjab governor approves convening Assembly session
Chandigarh: Punjab Governor Banwarilal Purohit has approved the state government’s request to hold a special Assembly session on September 27, Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan said. Chief minister Bhagwant Singh Mann had sought the session days...
Comedian Raju Srivastava passes away at 58
Comedian Raju Srivastava passed away in Delhi. He was 58. He was admitted to AIIMS, Delhi on August 10, after he suffered a heart attack. Raju Srivastava was on ventilator support for 15 days, after which he regained consciousness. However,...
President inaugurates Dussehra festivities in Mysuru
Mysuru (Karnataka): The famous 10-day Dussehra celebrations commenced in Musuru on Monday with religious and traditional fervour, with President of India Droupadi Murmu inaugurating the festivities.
Centre to celebrate September 17 as Hyderabad Liberation Day
Hyderabad: Union home minister Amit Shah said the Centre will celebrate September 17 as “Liberation Day” and continue to do so with pride every year to mark the day Indian forces entered the city ruled by the Nizam in 1948.
ED grills Abhishek for 6 hours in coal scam
Kolkata: Moments after emerging from the Central Government office complex, where he was grilled by the Enforcement Directorate for more than six hours in the coal smuggling case, Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee...
Freedom fighters’ kin share untold stories of struggle
Revolutionary leader Kanailal Dutta of the Jugantar group was hanged on November 10, 1908, for the assassination of British approver Naren Goswami in the Alipore Central Jail’s hospital. A day before the hanging, his brother, Ashutosh, had requested...
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.
A passenger from Dubai, carrying four capsules with over a kilogram of gold inside his stomach, was arrested at Kerala's Karipur airport.
Karnataka announced “third gender” reservations in police recruitment, possibly the first state to do so. State home minister Araga Jnanendra said the process of hiring 3,484 constables had started and 79 of these had been reserved for the “male...
Hyderabad: Union home minister Amit Shah said the Centre will celebrate September 17 as “Liberation Day” and continue to do so with pride every year to...
The Phase-I of the Metro service in Ahmedabad is finally ready to begin operations as the Commissioner of Metro Railway Safety (CMRS) has given the final approval. The project is likely to be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September...
Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann came under attack from opposition Congress and SAD that alleged a man reportedly “drunk and deplaned” from a Lufthansa flight in Frankfurt the day before was him, a charge AAP denied and demanded an apology for.
Eight of the 11 Congress MLAs “merged” the Goa Congress Legislature Party into BJP, taking the saffron party’s strength alone to 28 in the 40-member House. Former CM Digambar Kamat, who led the rebel MLAs along with opposition leader Michael...
AS Prime Minister Narendra Modi turns 72 on last Saturday, the BJP will celebrate 16 days as Seva Pakhwara (service fortnight). BJP has chalked out events...
US based East West Center organised a workshop for Indian and Pakistani journalists on 5-9 September in Kathmandu with a focus on cross-border issues of...
The decision of Vedanta-Foxconn to choose Gujarat for their $20 billion semiconductor project instead of Maharashtra triggered a political blame game in Maharashtra even as the Gujarat government signed an MoU for the unit. The opposition in...
