Karnal, September 4 The Varietal Identification Committee of Wheat and Barley of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi, has identified and recommended seven new wheat and barley varieties for the country. During an interaction with the media...
New Delhi, September 4 Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday constituted the party’s Central Election Committee with 16 members, including himself and former party chiefs Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. The development comes ahead of key Assembly elections in states...
New Delhi, September 4 The annual coordination meeting of RSS and sister organizations, including BJP, the political wing, has been scheduled in Pune from September 14 to 16. The meeting will be attended by top RSS brass led by chief...
Mumbai, September 4 A 24-year-old woman flight attendant staying in an apartment in Mumbai was brutally killed allegedly by a housekeeping staffer of the building who slit her throat using a nine-inch weapon, police said on Monday. The accused man...
Shimla, September 3 Himachal Pradesh has witnessed weeks of torrential rain since July, and the results were widespread destruction of life and property after floods and landslides. Amidst the catastrophe, the state seems “helpless” to give many of the promised...
New Delhi, September 2 Congress leader and Lok Sabha member Rahul Gandhi on Saturday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the Adani Group stock manipulation charges. “India’s PM can’t order an inquiry against Adani. This is because after...
New Delhi, September 2 Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday released an ‘aarop patra’ (chargesheet) against the incumbent Congress government led by Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel in Chhattisgarh and said the BJP would capture all 11 parliamentary segments...
Raipur, September 2 Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused the BJP-led Centre of working for the welfare of two-three billionaires of the country and said states governed by his party will have the government of the poor and...
Vibha Sharma Chandigarh, September 2 A day after the announcement of a ‘special session’ of Parliament, the Narendra Modi Government on Thursday set up a high-level committee under former President Ram Nath Kovind to examine the feasibility of ‘one nation,...
THE Union Government has set up a committee headed by former President Ram Nath Kovind to explore the feasibility of ‘one nation, one election’, an idea that has been repeatedly championed by PM Narendra Modi. Simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly...
THE term labharthis, which translates as beneficiaries of statutory welfare schemes, gained currency after the BJP won a second term in Uttar Pradesh by blending a package of doles with the Hindu ‘identity’ in what certain commentators claimed was a...
The inherent flaw in Opposition’s strategy is that a personality-oriented campaign can boomerang
Raipur, September 1 Ten men, including the son of a local BJP leader, were arrested on Friday for allegedly raping two sisters in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur district, police said. The incident took place on Thursday night near Bhansoj village when the...
Mumbai, September 1 Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday said the strength of the opposition alliance is making the government “nervous” and warned INDIA bloc partners to prepare for vendetta politics as there will be more “misuse” of agencies against...
Jalandhar, August 31 To celebrate India’s presidency in G20, Akashvani Jalandhar organised a folk dance festival at Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya on Thursday. Prominent folk dance troupes belonging to various states of the country mesmerised the audience with...
Chandrayaan-3’s success will motivate many young boys and girls to become space scientists
GS Paul Baba Bakala, August 31 All political parties indulged in a blame game on Rakhar Punia today, the annual politico-religious fair held at Baba Bakala, even as the occasion turned out to be a low-key affair in comparison to...
Raipur, August 31 President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday expressed concern over the “very serious issue” of students committing suicide, and urged all stakeholders to help them beat negative thinking and cope with study pressure in a positive way. Making a...
New Delhi, August 29 Months before the Assembly elections in Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram, followed by the 2024 General Election, a meeting of the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday approved a Rs...
Raipur, August 26 Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Saturday said the persons above 80 years of age and those with more than 40 percent disability will be able to cast their votes from home through postal ballot in the...
Said some of the party MLAs may not be re-nominated in the upcoming polls
Vibha Sharma Chandigarh, August 24 Last week the BJP took everyone by surprise by announcing candidates for Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh elections even before the declaration of poll schedules by the Election Commission. The party named 39 candidates for the...
Raipur, August 24 Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel’s political advisor Vinod Verma on Thursday claimed he does not have a “single penny” of ill-gotten money, a day after the Enforcement Directorate conducted a search at his residence. Addressing a press...
New Delhi, August 23 The Enforcement Directorate (ED) today conducted searches on the premises of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel’s political adviser Vinod Verma and two of his officers on special duty (OSDs) in Raipur and Durg districts, sources said....
Raipur/Durg, August 23 The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday conducted searches on the premises of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel’s political adviser Vinod Verma and two Officers on Special Duty (OSDs) in Raipur and Durg districts, sources said. The searches...
Ranchi, August 23 The Congress, a constituent of the ruling JMM-led coalition in Jharkhand, on Wednesday described ED raids on the premises linked to a state minister’s son and some others as a ‘political vendetta’ at the behest of the...
Raipur, August 23 Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bupesh Baghel on Wednesday took a dig at the central government over Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids at the residences of his political advisor and Officers on Special Duty (OSDs). Taking to X, CM Baghel...
New Delhi, August 22 A Delhi court on Tuesday awarded three-year jail term to a former official of the Ministry of Steel in a coal scam case related to alleged irregularities in the allocation of a coal block in Chhattisgarh....
The Panchayati Raj Department had pulled out 700 workers from MGNREGA duties and put them at the disposal of the Gurdaspur administration during efforts to plug a 300-foot-wide, 30-foot-deep breach at Jagatpur Tanda village. Not only men, but women from...
Let bygones be bygones — this seems to be the message conveyed by the top brass of the grand old party while reconstituting the Congress Working Committee (CWC). Former Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot, who has repeatedly raised the...