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Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala People’s Party chief and actor Devan, along with actor Radha and former bureaucrat KV Balakrishnan joined Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kerala in presence of Union Home Minister on Sunday. Union Home Minister Amit Shah is in Thiruvananthapuram today to participate in the valedictory function for BJP’s Kerala
The country’s first forest healing centre based on the concept of making people healthy by bringing them into direct contact with nature was opened to the public on Sunday at Kalika near Ranikhet, an official said. Signboards on either side of its slopey entrance advise visitors to hug trees, walk
Launching a fresh tirade against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said he was “peddling lies to mislead the voters” in the poll-bound state. Banerjee, addressing a rally here following her protest march over LPG price hike, said the prime minister made many “empty”
Chennai: BJP’s top leader and Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah on Sunday kick started his party’s campaign for the April 6 Lok Sabha bypoll in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu. Confident of his party’s victory, Amit Shah said that BJP would not only win in Kanyakumari, but the AIADMK-led NDA
India women’s wrestler Vinesh Phogat won her second gold medal in two weeks as she defeated Canada’s Diana Wicker 4-0 in the final of the Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series event in Rome and reclaimed the top rank in her category. Vinesh scored all her points in the first period and
Lucknow: WhatsApp Web recently launched feature for voice and video call for desktops, which is compatible with both Windows PCs and Macs. However, it was widely believed users would still need to have a good network connection with their phone while making a call, which may not be the case going forward.
Lucknow: Two labourers were killed in a horrific incident that happened after an explosion in a pipeline which led to an ammonia gas leak at a private cold storage in Itaunja area of Lucknow late Saturday night. The unit is reportedly used for storing potatoes. According to police officials two
Houston: The mega vaccination programme rolled out by India in collaboration with leading global institutions to free the world from the grasp of deadly coronavirus “rescued the world” said a top American scientist. Dr Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in
After being a successful actress, producer, author and entrepreneur, Priyanka Chopra Jonas is now a restaurateur. The actress took to social media to announce that she is now the proud co-owner of an Indian restaurant in New York. The upscale dining place has been named ‘Sona’ and was a dream
Kolkata: Veteran actor Mithun Chakraborty finally put an end to weeks of speculation today as he joined the BJP at a massive rally shortly before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s arrival. Bengal’s most beloved actor, “Mithun-da” left no stone unturned to woo his audiences as he delivered all the punchlines at
The schedule for the Indian Premier League 2021 has been announced on Sunday. The IPL season will kick off on April 9 in Chennai, with defending champions Mumbai Indians taking on Royal Challengers Bangalore. The final will be played on May 30 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. The
Union Home Minister Amit Shah began the Bhartiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) Vijay Sankalp Mahasampark Abhiyaan, a door-to-door campaign, in Tamil Nadu by visiting 11 homes in Kanyakumari on Sunday. Shah first visited the Suchindram temple, and then began his door-to-door campaign as part of the party’s Vijay Sankalp Mahasampark Abhiyan.
Chennai: The DMK and the Congress party on Sunday signed a seat-sharing agreement to contest the upcoming assembly elections in the state of Tamil Nadu. In the alliance Congress secured 25 assembly seats. The Congress will reportedly contest the bypoll for the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha seat. The agreement was formally
Highlighting the need to develop the Indian military into a “future force”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday called for a holistic approach focused on breaking down civil-military silos and on expediting decision-making. Addressing the valedictory session of the three-day Combined commanders’ conference (CCC) at Kevadia in Gujarat, The Prime
Kolkata: The poll-bound city of West Bengal is all prepped up to host Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former Rajya Sabha MP, actor Mithun Chakraborty for today’s massive rally at Kolkata’s famed Brigade Parade Ground. Though, the veteran actor had been noncommittal about his visit to the state, the party’s
A night curfew was imposed in Punjab’s four districts from Saturday to tackle a recent surge in coronavirus cases. The night curfew will remain in place in the districts from 11 pm to 5 am. The orders came after Punjab Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan and Director General of Police Dinkar
Kolkata: Former Trinamool Congress leader, Suvendu Adhikari, who crossed over to BJP and is all set to lock horns with his former aide Mamata Banerjee in his home constituency, Nandigram said the ruling TMC is keen on turning West Bengal into another Kashmir. BJP’s Nandigram candidate for the upcoming state
Tamil Nadu Congress President KS Alagiri on Sunday said that the party has signed a seat-sharing agreement with the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and will contest on 25 Assembly seats. Alagiri also announced that the party will contest the by-polls to the Kanyakumari Lok Sabha seat. “We have signed a
KOLKATA: Former Mamata Banerjee acolyte Suvendu Adhikari was on Saturday officially named the candidate who will be contesting the high-stakes Nandigram seats against her. BJP’s national general secretary Arun Singh announced Adhikari’s candidature at the party headquarters in Delhi while releasing a list of 57 nominees for the 60 seats
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The Supreme Court, which is hearing cases through video-conferencing since March last year due to the Cov-19 pandemic, will commence hybrid physical hearing from March 15.The apex court has issued the standard operating procedure (SOP) for the hybrid physical hearings. The top court has been hearing cases through video-conferencing since
Kochi/Kerala: Chairman of India’s multinational conglomerate, Muthoot Group, MG George Muthoot, passed away on Friday evening in New Delhi, as what the company’s regulatory filing read. Muthoot Finance is one of the largest Gold Loan Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) in India. The 72-year-old was the third generation from his family
Chennai: India’s third largest motorcycle company, TVS Motor Co Ltd, on Saturday announced to bear the cost of Covid-19 vaccines to its around 35,000 employees and their immediate family members in the coming months. The company head, Venu Srinivasan claimed to pay the cost of the entire vaccination process. With
New Delhi: Introducing some promising changes in the educational sector of the national capital, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday announced that Delhi will have its own school education board like other states. The state government approved the formation of the Delhi Board of School Education during a cabinet meet.
Young shooter Manisha Keer, daughter of a fisherman in Bhopal, powered India to a silver at the World Cup in Cairo on Friday. Till a few years ago, Manisha, 20, used to help her father catch fish, which they sold in a Bhopal market. In 2013, she was picked up
New Delhi: BJP’s status in the West Bengal gets more firm with former Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress MP Dinesh Trivedi’s cross over to BJP, which make the list of such defection, over the past many months, long. The sudden cross over, on Saturday, comes weeks ahead of the West
The farmers, agitating against the Centre’s three farm legislation, on Saturday blocked the Western Peripheral Expressway to mark 100 days of the movement. Farmers from all age group gathered at the six-lane expressway outside the national capital with their cars, trucks and tractors as they staged a five-hour-long blockade to
Guwahati: As the BJP rolled out the list of 70 candidates for the Assam assembly elections, on Friday, politician Himanta Biswa Sarma’s name in it started murmurs in political corridors, as he is being seen as the next chosen candidate for chief minister’s post. Sarma will contest the upcoming polls
Former Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi, who had resigned as TMC MP in Rajya Sabha on February 12, joined BJP at the party headquarters in New Delhi today. He joined the party in the presence of BJP National President JP Nadda and Railway Minister Piyush Goyal. “I’ll be active in election
UPPSC RO/ARO 2021: Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) has released the official notification for the post of Review Officer (RO)/Samiksha Adhikari and Assistant Review Officer (ARO)/Sahayak Samiksha Adhikari on its official website uppsc.up.nic.in. A total of 337 RO/ARO vacancies will be recruited through this recruitment process. The online registration
