NEW DELHI, MAR 30: President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday conferred Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian honour, on former Prime Ministers P V Narasimha Rao and Chaudhary Charan Singh, agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan and two-time former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur, posthumously at a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan here. The awards to […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, MAR 29: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita launched a WhatsApp campaign on Friday, urging people to support her husband, who is in the ED’s custody in an excise policy-linked money-laundering case. In a digital media briefing, Sunita Kejriwal said her husband has challenged the “most corrupt and dictatorial forces” in the Continue Reading
KOTA,MAR 28: A 19-year-old NEET aspirant allegedly hanged herself at her PG room here, the seventh suicide by a coaching student in the city since the beginning of this year, police said on Thursday. A day earlier, another NEET aspirant Mohammad Urooj (20) was found dead at his PG accommodation in Vigyan Nagar. NEET aspirant […]Continue Reading
ASSAM, MAR 27 : A photo showing an Assamese politician, Benjamin Basumatary, sleeping on a pile of notes has stirred a controversy. Basumatary is a suspended member of United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL), BJP’s ally in Assam. The viral photo shows Basumatary, with his chest bare, lying on a bed, with Rs 500 notes strewn […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, MAR 26 : After the BJP dropped Varun Gandhi, sitting MP from Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit, from its Lok Sabha candidates’ list, Congress made an offer to him. Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Tuesday said that Varun Gandhi is “most welcome” to join the grand old party. Speaking to reporters, Adhir Chowdhury […]Continue Reading
LUCKNOW, MAR 26: Jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari was admitted to a hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district early Tuesday after he complained of abdominal pain. According to a medical bulletin issued by the Banda Medical College, Mukhtar’s condition is stable “Mukhtar Ansari was admitted there at 3.55 am with complaint of pain in the Continue Reading
LONDON, MAR 25: An Indian student died after being run over by a truck while cycling back to her apartment in London last week, according to a social media post by Niti Aayog former CEO Amitabh Kant. The 33-year-old Cheistha Kochhar was a PhD student at the London School of Economics, her father retired Lieutenant […]Continue Reading
UTTAR PRADESH, MAR 24 : A person was arrested and three were detained in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor on Sunday for harassing a Muslim family by forcibly applying colours on them. The police action came after a viral video showed some men forcefully applying colours and throwing water at a Muslim family who were passing through […]Continue Reading
GUWAHATI, MAR 24: An IIT-Guwahati student, who had allegedly pledged allegiance to ISIS and was on his way to join the terror group, was detained, police said. The student was nabbed in Hajo area near Guwahati on Saturday evening. His apprehension comes four days after ISIS India head Haris Farooqi alias Harish Ajmal Farukhi and […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, MAR 23 : The CBI on Saturday conducted searches on the premises of former TMC MP Mahua Moitra in multiple locations, including Kolkata, in connection with the alleged cash-for-query case, officials said. Teams of the central probe agency reached Moitra’s residence in Kolkata and other cities early on Saturday, informed about the search […]Continue Reading
