Sushma Swaraj Welcomes Naresh Agarwal in BJP, But Slams Him For Remarks on Jaya Bachchan
New Delhi: Former Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Naresh Agarwal joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday after being ignored for Rajya Sabha seat by Akhilesh Yadav’s party. However, Agarwal’s stint in the BJP started on a bitter note as...
Maharashtra Rajya Sabha Election : BJP fields fourth candidate Vijaya Rahatkar
Mumbai: Congress on Monday nominated senior journalist Kumar Ketkar from Maharashtra and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominated state women’s commission president Vijaya Rahatkar's name for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls. In total, Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Shiv Sena nominated one...
RBI tightens noose around Bombay Mercantile Bank over ‘loan loot’
Mumbai: Acting on the media reports on the large scale corruption indulged in by Chairman of Bombay Mercantile Co-operative Bank Zeeshan Mehdi and other responsible officials of the bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has tightened the noose around...
Maharashtra farmers march: Agitators arrive at agreement with govt, withdraw stir
Mumbai: Maharashtra farmers call off protest after they reach an agreement with the government. CM Devendra Fadnavis has promised a written assurance, one of their demands, soon. Meeting ends between farmers’ representatives and CM-led ministerial committee arrived at an agreement. In the...
Karti Chidambaram sent to jail till March 25
New Delhi:A Delhi Court on Monday sent Karti Chidambaram, son of former finance Minister P Chidambaram, to judicial custody till March 25 in connection with the INX media case. In the application submitted in Patiala House Court, the Central Bureau of...
IndiGo Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Ahmedabad Due to Engine Failure; Close Shave For 186 Passengers
Ahmedabad: An IndiGo Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Ahmedabad due to a technical issue. Reports say the IndiGo neon plane travelling to Lucknow suffered an engine failure mid air and had to land at the Ahmedabad airport after...
Passenger plane crashes in Kathmandu, several feared dead
A passenger plane crashed in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, near the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA). Several passengers are feared dead. Plane crash at Kathmandu Airport, Nepal. Reports say it belonged to US-Bangla Airlines of Bangladesh & was a Fokker F28 (although...
What the marching farmers want
Mumbai: The All India Kisan Sabha, which is spearheading the farmers' protest march has tweeted a list of demands. These include... -- The Kisan Long March demands that the burning issues connected to the public distribution system be resolved. -- It demands...
Maharashtra government plans to make Samruddhi a ‘zero fatality’ corridor
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has announced the construction of a 701-km long corridor, named Samruddhi, between Mumbai and Nagpur, to provide faster connectivity between the two cities. The government is determined to make this corridor ‘zero fatality’, hence a lot of...
HC grants bail to AAP MLA in chief secy assault case
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today granted bail to AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan in the Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash assault case. Justice Mukta Gupta granted relief to the Okhla MLA, who was arrested on February 21, with certain conditions...
9 members of trekking expedition killed in TN forest fire
Nine people, who were part of a trekking expedition, have been killed in a forest fire in the Western Ghats, the Tamil Nadu government said today. "Nine persons are dead, while 17 of the rescued have been hospitalised and 10...
Many farmers from Vidarbha will be part of the mammoth rally marching into Mumbai today
Mumbai is going to be engulfed by red today. The red of agitating farmers' flags, and the red of their 'topis'. The ruling BJP might be in a self congratulatory mode that they have vanquished communists from North Eastern states of...
Congress names journalist Kumar Ketkar as RS poll candidate
The Congress on Sunday cleared the names of its 10 candidates, which included that of senior journalist Kumar Ketkar, for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections, with party spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi to contest from West Bengal. The Trinamool Congress has already...
Massive Fire Breaks Out in Theni; 21 Students Trapped, 7 Injured
At least seven students injured and 21 were trapped after a massive fire broke out in Theni district of Tamil Nadu on Sunday. Several fire tenders and water tankers have been pressed into service to douse the flame. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman...
Rane to file nomination for RS polls from BJP quota
Mumbai: Former Maharasthra chief minister Narayan Rane will on Monday file his nomination papers from the BJP quota for the biennial Rajya Sabha polls from the state, sources close to him said today. "Rane has accepted the BJP's offer of Rajya...
Suresh Prabhu given charge of aviation ministry
New Delhi: Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu has been given additional charge of the civil aviation ministry, Rashtrapati Bhavan sources have said. The change comes after Ashok Gajapathi Raju and YS Chowdary resigned over the issue of special category state status...
Statue row: Bengal intellectuals urge Kovind to take strongest action against Tripura guv for tweets
New Delhi: Prominent Bengali intellectuals urged President Ramnath Kovind to take the strongest possible action against Tripura governor Tathagata Roy for sparking tension with his tweets on the demolition of a Lenin statue in the state. Roys message has sparked tension...
Former Maharashtra minister Patangrao Kadam dies
Former Maharashtra Forest Minister Patangrao Kadam died at a Mumbai hospital on Friday. The Congress leader had been admitted to Lilavati Hospital on March 2 after his health deteriorated. Kadam, 73, died at the hospital around 10 pm, Marathi daily Loksatta...
Mohammed Shami booked on wife’s complaint
Kolkata: An FIR has been registered against cricketer Mohammed Shami and four other members of his family on the basis of a complaint filed by his wife Hasin Jahan who filed a complaint alleging adultery, torture and threat to her...
Maharashtra Budget 2018-19: Rs 8,233 Cr Allocated For Irrigation Projects; Rs 300 Crore For Shivaji Statue
Mumbai: Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar on Friday presented the Maharashtra Budget 2018-19 in the State Legislative Assembly. This is Mungantiwar’s fourth successive Budget for the state. Mungantiwar focused on the farm sector in his Budget speech while also allocated...
ED cannot arrest Karti: HC
Karti Chidambaram, son of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, cannot be arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in the INX Media money laundering case till March 20, the next hearing of the case, the Delhi High Court today said. Justice S Ravindra...
