KUWAIT, JUN 12: At least 41 people were killed and dozens injured in a building fire in an area heavily populated with foreign workers in Kuwait, the interior ministry said on Wednesday. Several Indians were feared to be among those killed, according to reports emanating from the Gulf nation. Forty-three people were injured, the health […]Continue Reading
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Andhra Pradesh, Jun 12 : Telugu Desam Party (TDP) supremo N Chandrababu Naidu took oath as the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday, marking his fourth term in the post. Jana Sena Party chief and ‘Power Star’ Pawan Kalyan was sworn in as a Cabinet Minister. With his swearing-in as Andhra Pradesh’s Chief Minister, […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, JUN 12: The first session of the 18th Lok Sabha will begin on June 24 for oath or affirmation of the newly elected members, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said on Wednesday. The first three days of the session will see the newly elected leaders taking oath or making affirmation of their membership […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, JUN 12: Two days after terrorists opened fire at a bus carrying pilgrims in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi, the police on Tuesday released a sketch of one of the three terrorists involved in the attack. The police also announced a Rs 20 lakh reward for information about him. Sketch of terrorist involved with […]Continue Reading
JAMMU,JUN 12 : Five army soldiers and one special police officer were injured after terrorists opened fire at the Army’s Temporary Operating Base (TOB) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district on Wednesday. In the gunfight, a terrorist was also neutralised. The injured were taken to SDH Bhaderwah for treatment, the official told India Today. The […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, JUN 11 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that the term ‘Modi Ka Parivar’ could be dropped from a suffix of the social media accounts of his supporters. In a post on the microblogging site X, PM Modi said, “Through the election campaign, people across India added ‘Modi Ka Parivar’ to […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, JUN 11: Seventy out of 71 or 99 per cent of the ministers in the new council of ministers are crorepatis with average assets among them amounting to Rs 107.94 crores, according to poll rights body ADR. Among the ministers, six stand out for their particularly high asset declarations, each exceeding Rs 100 […]Continue Reading
Modi cabinet 3.0: Jaishankar back as external affairs minister; Vaishnaw takes charge as IB Minister
NEW DELHI, JUN 11: Diplomat-turned-politician S Jaishankar on Tuesday assumed charge as external affairs minister for the second consecutive term. Jaishankar, 69, was among the senior BJP leaders, including Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari and Nirmala Sitharaman, who retained the ministries that they handled in the previous government. “Assumed charge as the Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, JUN 11 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to address a ‘kisan sammelan’ (farmers’ conference) in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh on June 18, sources said. This could be the Prime Minister’s first visit to Varanasi after he took oath for a record third time on Sunday. Local BJP leaders […]Continue Reading
New Delhi,Jun 10: There was a time when ‘Minimum government, maximum governance’ was one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s favourite slogans. But in this third term, with the compulsions of coalition politics and also a need to strengthen representation from BJP’s core states taking over, that has been set aside. The swearing-in on Sunday inducted Continue Reading
