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- India
Study files carefully before signing, Mamata tells Cabinet colleagues
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during a Cabinet meeting on Thursday instructed all the ministers to carefully study all files before putting their signature. In the meeting, she also issued…
- Politics
‘When you pose challenge to higher ups, BJP downsizes you’: NCP on Gadkari’s ouster from key panel
New Delhi: The Nationalist Congress Party Wednesday took a dig at the BJP over Union minister Nitin Gadkari’s ouster from its parliamentary board, saying the party removed him from the panel due…
- Offbeat
Now, taste local flavours as vendors return on trains
New Delhi: Bringing back the nostalgia of buying local wares from hawkers and gorging on regional cuisines, the Railways will now allow vendors to sell their goods on trains, as part of…
- India
Protests against CAA resume in Assam as AASU hits the streets
Guwahati: After a gap of over two years, protests against the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) resumed across Assam on Monday. Protests by members of the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU), a…
- India
Rohingya migrants are ‘threat’ to national security: BJP
New Delhi: Facing flak over the Rohingya issue, the BJP on Wednesday asserted that the illegal migrants are a “threat” to national security and that the Modi government will never compromise on…
- Bollywood
Jacqueline Fernandez shares motivational quote on social media amid ED trouble
Mumbai: Actor Jacqueline Fernandez, who was on Wednesday named as an accused in the charge sheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate in a multi-crore money laundering case linked to alleged conman Sukesh…
- India
‘Modi ko hatana hai’: Lalu’s first comments after development in Bihar
New Delhi: RJD supremo Lalu Prasad on Wednesday slammed the BJP government at the Centre as “dictatorial” and vowed to oust Prime Minister Narendra Modi from power in the 2024 general elections.…
- Kolkata
CBI confiscates TMC leader Anubrata Mondal’s FDs worth over Rs 16 cr
Kolkata: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths probing the multi-crore cattle smuggling case in West Bengal on Wednesday confiscated bank fixed deposits worth Rs 16.97 crore in the name of Trinamool Congress…
- Stock Market
Sensex rises 379 pts, Nifty closes above 17,800 on easing inflation concerns
Mumbai: Benchmark BSE Sensex rose by over 379 points while Nifty closed above the 17,800 level following gains in oil & gas, banking and auto shares on easing inflation concerns. The 30-share…
- India
Rajasthan: Congress MLA resigns over Dalit boy’s death
Jaipur: ‘Pained’ by the death of a Dalit child in his constituency owing to harsh bashing by his school teacher, Congress MLA Panachand Meghwal on Monday sent his resignation to the Chief Minister…
- India
What made it to PM Modi’s speech on India’s 76th Indepedence Day?
New Delhi: As India celebrates 75 years since Independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday hoisted the Tricolour at the Red Fort and addressed the nation on the occasion. While addressing the…
- India
President Murmu: India is among the fastest growing major economies in the world
New Delhi: India is among the fastest growing major economies in the world, President Droupadi Murmu said in her maiden address to the nation on Sunday, adding that India has made unprecedented…
- Telangana
Political temperature heats up in Telangana with resignation of sitting Cong MLA
Hyderabad: With sitting Congress MLA K Rajagopal Reddy quitting his post and the party, political temperature hotted up in Telangana as the outcome of the upcoming by-poll to his Munugode Assembly segment…
- India
Jamia students break taboos around period; create reusable sanitary pads
New Delhi: Reshma, a resident of a slum in South Delhi, often wondered how sanitary napkins are made. Her inquisitiveness further increased when she learnt that menstrual pads can be made using natural…
- Bangalore
Elderly woman hacked to death in Bangalore
Bangalore: An 83-year-old woman, who called up police saying that she faces threat of being killed, was shockingly found murdered at her home in Bengaluru, police said on Sunday. The incident came to…