Congress has accused the Nitish Kumar-led dispensation of touching the bottom of all developmental indices and said it was unfortunate that Bihar’s 33.74% people were still living in a state of poverty. Quoting a Niti Aayog report, Congress general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala said Bihar had been rated at the […]
Row in Nepal after R&AW chief meets KP Oli, party seeks details
Nepal’s embattled Prime Minister, K P Sharma Oli, came under fresh attack Thursday, including from three former Prime Ministers and his own party leaders, for meeting Indian R&AW chief Samant Kumar Goel without keeping them in the loop. Calling it “improper” and “objectionable”, former Prime Ministers Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, who […]
12 hours on, 250 Mumbai firefighters struggle to put out blaze at city mall
The massive fire at City Centre Mall in Mumbai Central area in South Mumbai continues to rage more than 12 hours after it started on Thursday evening and was classified as a level-5 blaze or a brigade call, in which fire engines are called from all agencies in the city. […]
UP cops gather evidence of Kerala scribe’s role in Hathras violence incitement plot
After taking over investigation into the alleged conspiracy to incite caste violence in the backdrop of the gang rape and murder of a 20-year old Dalit woman in Hathras, UP special task force (STF) on Thursday visited Mathura, where four alleged members of the Popular Front of India (PFI) and […]
Mumbai mall fire: 2 firemen injured, 3,500 people evacuated from nearby building
Two firemen were injured and around 3,500 people were evacuated from a 55-storey building in Mumbai early Friday after a fire in a neighbouring mall escalated to level 5. Fire fighting operations at the City Centre Mall in Nagpada area of south Mumbai are underway. At least 24 fire engines, […]
Grenade hurled at police vehicle in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch
Suspected terrorists hurled a grenade at a police vehicle at Kalai in Poonch district late Thursday. Poonch district SSP Ramesh Kumar Angral said, “A grenade was hurled at a police vehicle in the Kalai bridge area in Poonch district on Thursday night. However, it did not explode and there was […]
PM Modi to address 3 rallies in Bihar today, Rahul Gandhi 2
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address three election rallies in Sasaram, Gaya and Bhagalpur on Friday, starting his campaign for Bihar Assembly Election 2020, the first phase of which is scheduled to be held on October 28. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will join PM Modi at the rallies in […]
NIA charge sheet alleges Bitcoins used by IS operatives to fund terror activity
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has claimed in a charge sheet filed last month that Islamic State operative Jahanzaib Sami had arranged a Bitcoin wallet address, through a British contact, on which he asked associates to deposit funds — the first documented allegation of the use of cryptocurrency in terror […]
US case Covid-19 trajectory surpasses India’s
The trajectory of new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in the United States, which has been climbing with the start of a third wave of infections, has surpassed that of India’s, which has been dropping steadily in the past five weeks. This means that India is no longer the […]
Chinese media meant to threaten India, ends up confessing role in northeast
An ambush in Arunachal Pradesh’s Tirap sector that led to the death of an Assam Rifles soldier on Tuesday has put the spotlight back on China’s role to fuel insurgency in the northeast. Tuesday’s attack by the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) came a week after China’s propaganda arm […]
Government launches new inflation index for working class
The government on Thursday unveiled a new series for the consumer price index for industrial workers (CPI-IW), a measure of inflation used to calculate dearness allowance for government employees, wages for industrial workers and dearness relief for pensioners. The new series will account for changing spending habits of the working […]
Centre relaxes visa restrictions; Students, businessmen allowed
Extending further relaxations to Covid-19 travel guidelines, the Centre on Thursday has decided to allow more categories of foreign nationals and Indian nationals to travel to India. All OCI (Overseas Citizen of India) and PIO (Persons of Indian origin) card holders and all other foreign nationals intending to visit India […]
Raises questions on your neutrality: India warns Twitter on wrong geotag
India has conveyed its disapproval to Twitter for reportedly showing Jammu and Kashmir as part of China in its location tag in a live broadcast. Amid the ongoing standoff with China, India warned Twitter that any attempt by the social media giant to “disrespect sovereignty and integrity of India, which […]
Tripura CM called ‘little Hitler’ for seeking to uproot ‘communist seeds’
After Tripura chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb called upon his party workers to uproot the communists from the state by 2023 while spreading the messages of nationalism and also those shared by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the CPM responded by calling the CM ‘little Hitler’, and claimed that history would […]
BJP promises 1.9 mn jobs, free Covid-19 vaccine in Bihar polls manifesto
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday countered the opposition Grand Alliance’s (GA) promise of providing 1 million government jobs in poll-bound Bihar by going many notches above and pledged to give 1.9 million jobs in different sectors. The party made several promises in its 11-point Sankalp Patra, which was released by […]