Kolkata, March 4 (IANS) Within an hour after the election schedule was announced for West Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress on Friday released its list of candidates for all 294 assembly seats, re-nominating Saradha ponzi…
By Vishal Gulati Shimla, March 4 (IANS) The legislature and the judiciary in Himachal Pradesh seem to be on a collision course — literally. Defending their rights, members in the 68-seat assembly earlier this week…
By Sanu George Thiruvananthapuram, March 4 (IANS) As the Election Commission announced the date for elections to the new 140-member Kerala assembly, the stage is set for what many call a “game changer” polls in…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) The Election Commission here on Friday said all the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the upcoming assembly polls in five states will have a specially designed symbol for None of…
Agartala/Kohima/Guwahati, March 4 (IANS) With the issuance of a statutory notification on Friday for the March 21 elections to four Rajya Sabha seats from Assam, Tripura and Nagaland, lobbying has started in the three states…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (File Photo: IANS) Silchar, March 4 (IANS) Slamming the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Friday said “achhe din” will come only…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi on Friday announced that assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry will be held on May 16. Counting of votes in these states will…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to the Madhya Pradesh government over alleged police insensitivity and medical negligence towards a victim of a road accident in…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi mourned the death of former Lok Sabha speaker P.A. Sangma, who died of heart attack on Friday at the age of 68. “The nation had lost…
Gurgaon, March 4 (IANS) Reiterating the government’s determination to deal with the high level of over Rs.8 lakh crore of non-performing assets (NPAs), or bad debts, of state-run banks, Minister of State for Finance Jayant…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi on Friday announced that assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry will be held on May 16. Counting of votes in these states will…
Jamnagar, March 4 (IANS) India is considering manufacturing indigenously a second line of fighter aircraft and a decision on the issue will be taken within a year, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha said…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Elections to the 126-member Assam assembly will be held in two phases on April 4 and 11, the Election Commission said on Friday. “In the first phase, voting will be…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) The Election Commission on Friday announced a six-phase polling for the 294-member West Bengal assembly. Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi said West Bengal will see balloting on seven dates despite…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Assembly elections in Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry will be held in April and May, Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi announced on Friday. The Model Code of…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) The government has kept “adequate money” for the purchase of Rafale fighter jets from France while provisions have been made to continue the process of raising a mountain strike corps,…
Gurgaon, March 4 (IANS) At about 1.15 a.m. on Friday, Shipra Malik, who went missing on Monday from her home in Noida, knocked on the door of a villager in Haryana and told him she…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Digital fluency — the extent to which people embrace and use of digital technologies to become more knowledgeable — plays a key role in helping women to achieve gender equality,…
New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed a plea filed by a former woman research analyst who has accused environmentalist R.K. Pachauri of sexual harassment to cancel the bail granted…
Chennai, March 4 (IANS) Promptly passing on the “infrastructure cess” proposed in the union budget 2016-17 to car buyers, several manufacturers have hiked the prices of their models effective March 1. Honda Cars India Ltd…