Kolkata/IBNS: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from West Bengal's Jhargram was attacked by a violent mob in the sixth and penultimate phase of Lok Sabha elections on Saturday, media reports said.
Rajkot (Gujarat): Eleven people were killed and three injured after a massive fire broke out at a gaming zone in Rajkot, Gujarat, on Saturday evening, media reported.
New Delhi: As voting for the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections concluded on Saturday, the Congress party asserted that the ruling BJP's prospects are "nearly determined," while the opposition INDIA bloc has "consistently gained momentum" since the first phase.
Kolkata: Due to the impending cyclonic storm 'Remal', Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata has announced a suspension of flight operations for 21 hours starting from noon on Sunday.
Rajkot (Gujarat): At least 24 people were killed in a massive fire at a gaming zone in Gujarat’s Rajkot on Saturday evening. Multiple fire tenders were rushed to the location, media reported.
Bhopal: An illiterate man adeptly used technology to rape at least seven women in Madhya Pradesh, media reported.
Kolkata/IBNS: The Kolkata Police on Friday announced the imposition of Section 144 preventing the assembly of five or more people in the city for 60 days starting from May 28 to avoid "violent demonstrations".
Indian PM Narendra Modi, who is eyeing to return to power for a third time and equaling former PM Jawaharlal Nehru's record term, has said comparison should be made on the progress made during his tenure.
Indian voters lined up outside polling booths from as early as 7 am to exercise their franchise in the sixth and penultimate round of the Lok Sabha polls on Saturday.
New Delhi/IBNS: Voting in 58 seats across seven states and one Union Territory-Delhi will take place Saturday in the sixth and penultimate phase of the Lok Sabha election.
Kolkata/IBNS: Bangladesh's ruling party Awami League MP Anwarul Azim Anar, who came to Kolkata for medical treatment and was murdered on the outskirts of the city, was 'honey-trapped' by his killers, police investigation has revealed.
New Delhi/IBNS: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Friday arrested a former convict in a conspiracy case related to the terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) for allegedly introducing the suspected mastermind of the Bengaluru Rameshwaram Cafe blast to a foreign-based handler, media reports said.
New Delhi/IBNS: Narmada Bachao Andolan founder Medha Patkar has been convicted in a criminal defamation case filed against her by Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena.
Pune/IBNS: In the first major action following outrage over alleged lapses by the police after the Pune Porsche accident, in which two techies in their 20s lost their lives, an inspector and an assistant police inspector have been suspended.
Kolkata/IBNS: In protest against Mamata Banerjee's remarks slamming Kartik Maharaj, a monk in the charitable organisation Bharat Sevashram Sangha, whom she accused of acting on the behest of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, several sadhus hit the streets of Kolkata on Friday.
Pune/IBNS: The father of the 17-year-old Pune teen, who killed two techies after illegally consuming alcohol and then driving his dad's Rs. 2.5 crore Porsche sports car without a license of any sort, has been sent to jail by a city magistrate court.
Both politics and communication are as old as human existence. From cave paintings to smart phones, the medium has evolved and so also the art of messaging. Much before mobiles with the internet became ubiquitous, Marshall McLuhan came up with his famous ‘Medium is the Message’ dictum, meaning it is the medium rather than content which defines the way we experience the world.
A senior Indian official Kamal Kishore has been appointed as Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Head of UNDRR.
Tata-owned aviation major Air India on Friday announced the appointment of Sanjay Sharma as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) from June 10.
Indian Naval Ships Delhi, Shakti and Kiltan visited Manila, Philippines as part of Operational Deployment of the Indian Navy's Eastern Fleet to South China Sea.
The Tibet Museum of the Tibetan government in-exile in Indian city of Dharamshala recently organised an exhibition titled “The Noble Self-Manifested Jowo Wati Sangpo”.
State-owned Doordarshan will launch two Artifical Intelligence anchors on May 26.
New Delhi/IBNS: The Supreme Court is on Friday hearing a plea seeking direction to the Election Commission of India (ECI) to disclose the voter turnout data, media reports said.
Pune/IBNS: The parents of the 17-year-old, who is accused of running over two techies in Pune, had offered cash to a driver to take the blame, media reports said.
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday reiterated that she will continue to be in the INDIA alliance, which the Trinamool Congress supremo claims is coming to power ousting the Modi government.
Raipur/IBNS: Seven Maoists were killed in a gunfight jointly launched by the security forces and police forces in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district on Thursday, media reports said.
A 16-year-old mountaineer from Mumbai has added her name to the history book by becoming the youngest Indian to scale Mt Everest from the Nepal side.
Mumbai/IBNS: Bollywood superstar and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) co-owner Shah Rukh Khan, who suffered a heat stroke after the first playoff match in the Indian Premier League (IPL), was discharged from the hospital and returned to Mumbai.
When the Calcutta High Court said on Wednesday that the Muslim community was treated as a "commodity for political ends" by the West Bengal government which classified 77 classes of Muslims as backward between 2010 and 2012, it triggered a debate on appeasement and vote bank politics vis-a-vis social uplift of the real backward people.
Hazaribagh (Jharkhand): Senior BJP leader Jayant Sinha on Wednesday responded to the show cause notice issued by Jharkhand general secretary Aditya Sahu on why he did not vote in the Lok Sabha polls and participate in any election campaigning.
