Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar. (File Photo: IANS) Panaji, Feb 24 (IANS) Even as the opposition and civil society groups on Wednesday stopped trucks carrying material required to set up temporary infrastructure for Defexpo 2016,…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) The Delhi government said on Wednesday it would give a job to the brother of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula of Hyderabad University who committed suicide last month. “Delhi Government…
Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi being welcomed by Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, on his arrival at Guwahati on Jan 19, 2016. (Photo: IANS/PIB) New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Ahead of the assembly elections in…
Kolkata: West Bengal Minister Madan Mitra comes out of SSKM hospital after he was granted bail in Kolkata, on Nov 1, 2015. (Photo: IANS) Kolkata, Feb 24 (IANS) Jailed in the Saradha scam, Trinamool Congress…
Union HRD Minister and BJP leader Smriti Irani. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Union minister Smriti Irani, citing a Jawaharlal Nehru University report on Wednesday, said that JNU student “Umar Khaild misled…
Chennai, Feb 24 (IANS) It is war of mocking advertisements from political parties in Tamil Nadu, with DMK making the first move with costly newspaper advertisements while the ruling AIADMK and PMK resorting to low-cost…
Patidar Anamat Sanghursh Samiti (PASS) leader Hardik Patel. (File Photo: IANS) Ahmedabad, Feb 24 (IANS) Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) convenor Hardik Patel’s father Bharat Patel on Wednesday said he too was tempted with a…
MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday accused the Narendra Modi government of having “double standards” on the issue of…
Chennai, Feb 24 (IANS) A 68-kg cake was cut, an AIADMK leader floated on water for 68 minutes and 15 lakh people telephoned her birthday greetings as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK star J….
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) The CPI-M on Wednesday expressed “grave concern” over the growing signs of hatred and use of violence to intimidate groups and individuals who hold views contrary to those of the…
By Ruwa Shah New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Arrested JNU scholar Umar Khalid’s sister says her brother has wrongly been branded an Islamist terrorist because the self-proclaimed Marxist has a habit of questioning everything, including…
Mumbai: Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal at the seminar on Food Processing Industries `Opportunities in the food processing sector`, during the Make in India Week programme, in Mumbai on Feb 16,…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) CPI-M leader M.B. Rajesh on Wednesday said Hyderabad Central University student Rohith Vemula’s death was an institutional murder. “Rohith’s death is an institutional murder. Insulting statements were issued against him”,…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) The nationalism propounded by the ruling BJP is centralised despotism, Trinamool Congress member Sugata Bose said on Wednesday in thed Lok Sabha while participating in a discussion on the Jawaharlal…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) The central government has fixed a target of electrifying 7,000 un-electrified villages by the end of the current fiscal on March 31, Power Minister Piyush Goyal has said. “The village…
Agartala, Feb 24 (IANS) The village committee polls in Tripura witnessed 85 percent voting on Wednesday, officials said. A total of 645,840 people were eligible to vote in 528 of the 587 village committees under…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Is Afzal Guru a martyr or a terrorist? BJP leader Anurag Thakur on Wednesday raised the question in the Lok Sabha while participating in a discussion on the Jawaharlal Nehru…
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) The suicide of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula of Hyderabad University created an uproar in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, as Bahujan Samaj Party members raised slogans against the government…
Guwahati, Feb 24 (IANS) Just days ahead of the union budget, the Assam unit of the Congress on Wednesday took to the streets protesting against the ‘indifferent attitude’ of the central government to discontinue with…
Mumbai: Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association Chairman Jyotiraditya Scindia arrives to attend the Board of Cricket Control of India`s Annual General Meeting at BCCI head Quarter in Mumbai on Nov. 9, 2015. (Photo: Sandeep Mahankal/IANS) New…