Nitish Kumar-led NDA Govt wins Bihar floor test amid Opposition walkout
Patna: On Monday, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar won a motion of confidence for his coalition government with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Bihar Assembly. Nitish Kumar's coalition government won after 129 MLAs supported the resolution. Soon after...
Bihar floor test: 45 JD-U MLAs missing
Uncertainty is rife in the Bihar Assembly ahead of trust vote, reports MI Khan. According to sources, three of the 45 JD-U MLAs and two of the 78 BJP MLAs have failed to reach the Assembly to take part in trust...
Bihar floor test: Nitish, MLAs arrive at Assembly
Bihar CM and JDU national president Nitish Kumar arrives at the Bihar Assembly in Patna, ahead of the floor test of his government today. Former Bihar Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav leaves from his residence for the Bihar Vidhan Sabha. The...
Indian Navy veterans jailed in Qatar released
In a major diplomatic triumph for India, eight veterans of the Indian Navy who were sentenced to death in Qatar, were released by Doha on Monday. The capital punishment was commuted to an extended prison term earlier following diplomatic intervention by...
Qatar Releases 8 Navy Veterans Jailed Over Spying Charges, 7 Back In India In Major Diplomatic Win
Eight Indian Navy veterans jailed in Qatar over alleged spying charges have been released, the government said early this morning. Seven of them are already back in India after an 18-month jail stay in the Middle-East country. "The Government of India...
Five yrs of 17th LS was of reform, perform: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the five years of the 17th Lok Sabha were a period of reform, perform and transform with the country moving towards "big changes" at a fast pace. In his address in the Lok...
India records 163 fresh Covid cases, 2 deaths
India saw a single-day rise of 163 COVID-19 cases while the number of active cases of the infection was recorded at 874, the health ministry said on Friday. Two new deaths due to the viral disease -- one each from...
NMC warns medical colleges against compelling PG students to stay in hostels
The National Medical Commission has warned medical colleges and institutions against compelling post-graduate students to stay in the hostels offered by them and charging hefty amounts for the same. It said the medical colleges failing to follow the directive may...
EPFO fixes 3-year high interest rate of 8.25% on EPF for FY24
Retirement fund body EPFO on Saturday fixed a three-year high interest rate of 8.25 percent on employees' provident fund deposits for 2023-24. In March 2023, the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation had increased the interest rate on EPF marginally to 8.15...
Artist A Ramachandran dies from prolonged illness at 89
Renowned artist A Ramachandran died from prolonged illness at his residence here on Saturday. He was 89. "He was sick for quite some time now and passed away at 9 this morning from medical complications, his son Rahul told PTI....
Modi to open 1st Hindu temple during 2-day UAE trip
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay a two-day visit to the United Arab Emirates beginning Tuesday during which he will hold wide-ranging talks with President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and inaugurate the first Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi....
Haldwani violence: 5 held, 19 booked; curfew lifted
Authorities arrested five people and three FIRs were registered against 19 persons besides about 5,000 unidentified people, in the February 8 violence that broke out after an anti-encroachment drive in Haldwani's Banbhoolpura area of Uttarakhand. Six people died in...
Mithun Chakraborty admitted to hospital after he complains of chest pain
Veteran actor Mithun Chakraborty was admitted to a private hospital in Kolkata on Saturday after he complained of severe chest pain, officials of the health facility where he is undergoing treatment said. The 73-year-old actor underwent an MRI and other...
Discussion on Ram temple begins in Lok Sabha
Discussion on the construction of historic Shri Ram Temple and Pran Pratishtha of Shri Ramlala has begun in Lok Sabha on the last day of the budget session of Parliament. Senior BJP leader Satyapal Singh initiated the discussion. The budget session of...
Govt blocks 1.4L mobile numbers linked to fin frauds
To control digital frauds, the government has blocked 1.4 lakh mobile numbers so far that were involved in financial frauds, according to an official release. Financial services secretary Vivek Joshi on Friday chaired a meeting on cyber security in the...
ED files case against Sameer Wankhede
The Enforcement Directorate has registered a money laundering case against former Mumbai Narcotics Control Bureau zonal director Sameer Wankhede taking cognisance of a Central Bureua of Investigation FIR in an alleged Rs 25-crore bribe demand from superstar Shah Rukh Khan's...
Bharat Ratna for ex-PMs Narasimha Rao, Charan Singh, & MS Swaminathan
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced that former Prime Ministers Narasimha Rao, Chaudhary Charan Singh and renowned agriculture scientist MS Swaminathan will get Bharat Ratna. Former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao has been posthumously awarded the Bharat...
Watch On Facebook Live, Team Thackeray Leader’s Son Shot Dead In Mumbai
Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray leader Abhishek Ghosalkar was shot dead during a Facebook live by local social activist Mauris Noronha in Mumbai on Thursday, police said. Noronha also ended his life by shooting self, police said. Ghosalkar, a former corporator, succumbed to...
Ex-Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique quits Congress
Former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique on Thursday said he has resigned from the Congress after being a member of the party for nearly five decades. A prominent minority face of the Mumbai Congress, Siddique also served as a minister when the...
Domino’s staffer electrocuted while cleaning outlet
An employee working at a Domino's Pizza shop in the Vartak Nagar area of Thane in Maharashtra allegedly died due to electrocution during cleaning, police said on Thursday. The employee has been identified as Mahesh Anant Kadam (24). "An employee, Mahesh Anant...
Another Indian student found dead in US
In the fifth such incident this year, 23-year-old Indian student Sameer Kamath was found dead in Warren County, Indiana in the United States. Kamath was a doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering at Purdue University. 'Sameer Kamath, a doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering,...
