Hassan Nasrallah. File | Photo Credit: AP “Protests broke out in Jammu and Kashmir’s Budgam district on Wednesday (October 2, 2024) against the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon,” officials said. The protests were held in Magam market area and Budgam town of the central Kashmir district on the fourth day of mourning … Read more
File photo of Sudip Roy Barman | Photo Credit: PTI Former Tripura Minister and Congress MLA Sudip Roy Barman was slapped with a defamation suit and a notice to vacate from the MLA hostel days after he raised corruption charges against State Tribal Welfare Minister Bikash Debbarma and a senior government official in the Assembly. … Read more
Junior Doctors during a protest rally to Swastha Bhavan in Saltlake Kolkata demanding justice for the rape and murder of a junior doctor in RG Kar medical college and hospital. | Photo Credit: DEBASISH BHADURI CPI(M) leader Kalatan Dasgupta was among two persons who were arrested for allegedly hatching a conspiracy to attack the protesting … Read more
With the ruling BJP in Haryana facing dissent from some of its leaders over poll ticket distribution, party leader Karan Dev Kamboj on Wednesday (September 11, 2024) said Chief Minister Nayab Saini had not been “given much say” in the ticket allocation process. Former Minister Kamboj, who last week stepped down as the State unit’s … Read more
Singireddy Niranjan Reddy. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu HYDERABAD The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has alleged that the Congress Government is intentionally keeping the Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme (PRLIS) works pending by keeping aside the tenders finalised during the previous BRS rule. Former minister and party leader Singireddy Niranjan Reddy said on Friday (September … Read more
BJP leader and former Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Tuesday expressed concerns over the safety of Indian students studying in the US and urged the American envoy to present a transparent disclosure of the universities. Chandrasekhar, who is himself a US university graduate, made the remarks in response to US Ambassador Eric Garcetti’s post on … Read more
Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana chief Raju Shetti is trying to form a third political alliance ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly poll. File | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana chief Raju Shetti is trying to form a third political alliance ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly poll, scheduled to be held later this year. Mr. Shetti … Read more
Jailed Maoist leader Arnab Dam, who stood first in the PhD admission test at West Bengal’s Burdwan University, was brought to the campus on Monday and enrolled in history. The process of counselling began on Monday. Dam is serving a life sentence for his role in the 2010 attack on an Eastern Frontier Rifles camp … Read more
A file photo of BJP leader and former minister B. Sriramulu | Photo Credit: SRIDHAR KAVALI Former minister B. Sriramulu demanded the immediate arrest of B. Nagendra, who quit as ST welfare minister in connection with alleged financial irregularities in Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki ST Development Corporation. Addressing a press conference in Bengaluru on July … Read more
BSP supremo Mayawati pays tribute to the murdered leader Armstrong’s body in Chennai on July 7, 2024. | Photo Credit: B. Jothi Ramalingam The Madras High Court held a special sitting on July 7 and passed orders for burying the body of murdered Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Tamil Nadu unit president K. Armstrong on a … Read more