NEW DELHI, JUN 6 : Bangladesh premier Sheikh Hasina and Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe are among the foreign leaders to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister for a third consecutive term, agencies reported. Modi is likely to take oath on June 8 at 8 pm as the BJP-led NDA […]Continue Reading
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NEW DELHI,JUN 5 : The 2024 Lok Sabha election results threw up some surprises as the Opposition INDIA bloc defied exit poll predictions and performed better than expected and prevented the BJP, which was predicted to win an outright majority, from crossing the 300-mark. However, the election also resulted in four candidates, who are all […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, JUN 5: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday tendered his resignation to President Droupadi Murmu, who accepted it and asked him to continue till the new government assumes office, a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique said. “The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, met the President today and tendered his resignation along with the Council of […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, JUN 3: Three coaches of the Taj Express train caught fire in southeast Delhi’s Sarita Vihar on Monday, officials said. No one was injured in the incident as passengers managed to get out of the affected coaches in time, they said. The cause of the fire was not known immediately. “We received a […]Continue Reading
HOUSTON, JUN 3: A 23-year-old Indian student is missing in the US state of California since last week and police have sought the public’s help in finding her, the latest case in the country as the community grapples with a string of such incidents involving students. Nitheesha Kandula, a California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) […]Continue Reading
MUMBAI, JUN 3 : Benchmark stock market indices, Sensex and Nifty50, opened at record high levels on Monday after exit polls predicted a historic third term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The S&P BSE Sensex jumped over 2,000 points to a record high of 76,738.89, while the NSE Nifty50 rose to 23,338.70. Both the indices […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,JUN 2: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said he was going back to jail not because he was involved in corruption but as he had raised voice against “dictatorship”. Kejriwal was released from jail on May 10 on interim bail granted by the Supreme Court in a money laundering case linked to […]Continue Reading
SIKKIM,JUN 2 : Former Indian football captain and SDF candidate Bhaichung Bhutia was trailing SKM rival Riksal Dorjee Bhutia by 4,346, votes in the Barfung Assembly seat. The former star footballer had set up his own party — Hamro Sikkim Party — in 2018, before merging it with SDF in 2023. Bhutia is currently the […]Continue Reading
MUMBAI, JUN 2 : A 57-year-old man was injured while 25 to 30 persons were rescued after a fire broke out in a 62-storey residential building in south Mumbai’s Byculla area around midnight, officials said on Sunday. The blaze erupted in a flat on the 10th floor of the Monte South building’s A wing in […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,JUN 2 : The counting of votes for the Assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim began at 6 am on Sunday. According to the early trends, the BJP is set to retain power in Arunachal Pradesh while the ruling Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) is on the way to sweeping Sikkim. The BJP is […]Continue Reading
