Kolkata/IBNS/UNI: West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Monday assured a Trinamool Congress delegation, led by its national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, that he would convey to the Centre about the MGNREGA fund scheme dues to the State Government, official sources said.
New Delhi/IBNS/UNI: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge Monday said women's reservation, including extending reservation to OBC women, would be implemented if the party is voted to power in the Lok Sabha election in 2024.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Monday announced to confer the Sveriges Riksbank Prize (Nobel Prize) 2023 in Economic Sciences to Claudia Goldin of Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes”.
Ariyalur/UNI: In a tragic incident, ten workers, including three women, were killed and 14 others injured in an explosion triggered by a massive inferno at a country cracker factory at Vetriyur village in Ariyalur district of Tamil Nadu on Monday.
New Delhi/IBNS: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday announced the dates for assembly elections in five states- Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram- which are believed to test Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress and others ahead of the 2024 General Elections.
New Delhi: Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will visit Italy and France from Oct 9 to 12, 2023, officials said on Sunday.
The CBI on Sunday began searching the houses of West Bengal Minister and city Mayor Firhad Hakim and TMC legislator Madan Mitra in south Kolkata, official sources confirmed.
Gangtok: ITBP personnel on Friday successfully conducted a rescue operation, saving 68 people who were stranded in northern Sikkim due to the recent flash floods in Lhonak Lake.
New Delhi: Air India has decided to halt its flights to and from Tel Aviv following the assault by Hamas on Israel over the weekend, media reported.
Mumbai/UNI: Observing that crores of rupees are being sent to Naxalites every year, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde proposed the formation of a joint group of Enforcement Directorate, Income Tax and Financial Intelligence Department to investigate and stop this money transaction.
Srinagar/UNI: The weather office in Srinagar has predicted rain and snowfall over Kashmir mountains from Monday due to the fast moving Western Disturbance.
Shillong/UNI: Altogether 26 students from Meghalaya have been evacuated from flood-hit Sikkim and are en route to Shillong by bus via Assam, an official said on Saturday morning.
Kolkata/UNI/IBNS: "Will not partake in Durga Puja festivities if we are not able to restore a smile to our people's faces. Governor must listen to people’s plight," asserted Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee continuing his dharna outside Raj Bhavan for the third consecutive day on Saturday.
An Indian-origin couple and their two children were found dead at their residence in New Jersey state of the US, media reports said.
A married man was allegedly murdered by his wife and son in Maharashtra’s Nashik district as they were fed up of his alcoholism, police said on Friday.
Mumbai/UNI: Shiv Sena president and ex-chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday demanded a ‘CBI probe’ into recent hospital deaths, while alleging corruption in the current Maharashtra government.
Kolkata/IBNS: The West Bengal government Friday decided to move the Supreme Court after the Calcutta High Court acquitted a capital punishment awardee and commuted the death sentence of two others to life imprisonment over the gang rape and murder of a 21-year-old college student at Kamduni in North 24 Parganas, an incident that shook West Bengal 10 years ago.
Kolkata/IBNS/UNI: Like previous years, the Kolkata Metro Railway will run night-long services on its North-South route for the benefit of the Durga puja revellers on the pandal-hopping spree, a top official said on Friday.
New Delhi/IBNS: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned two associates of Aam Aadmi Party leader and MP Sanjay Singh for questioning in connection with the (now scrapped) Delhi excise policy case.
Canada has shifted a large number of its diplomats posted outside New Delhi and moved them to Malaysia or Singapore amid ongoing diplomatic tension between the two nations over the killing of Khalistani leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, media reports said.
The Friday following Eid-e-Milad was observed with traditional fervour in Kashmir today, officials said.
A doctor was arrested by Malwani police for raping two women, officials said.
China has been filled with bitterness ever since the news of Indian-made iPhone 15 reaching global market has surfaced.
New Delhi/UNI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday alleged that the way names of AAP leaders are emerging in corruption cases shows that corruption is now a common thing in the party.
Kolkata/IBNS: The dharna by a delegation of Trinamool Congress under the leadership of party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee outside West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose's house in central Kolkata entered day two on Friday.
New Delhi/UNI: As widely expected by economists and market-watchers, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)'s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on Friday decided to keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 6.50%.
At least 7 people were killed and 39 injured after a fire broke out in Mumbai's seven-storey residential building in the wee hours of Friday, officials said.
An Army Officer on Thursday suffered injuries in an "accidetal" grenade blast in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday heard two bail petitions filed by former Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia in the alleged money laundering case probed by the Enforcement Directorate linked to Delhi liquor policy scam, media reports said.
New Delhi/IBNS: A Delhi court Thursday sent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh to the Enforcement Directorate custody for five days, a day after he was arrested in a money laundering case related to the now-scrapped liquor policy.
