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Nadda promises OBC status for left out Hindu backward castes

Not accountable to Home Minister: TMC hits out on summons over Nadda’s convoy attack

4:01 pm December 12, 2020

Kolkata: Senior Trinamool Congress lawmaker Kalyan Banerjee wrote to Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla on Saturday, saying that West Bengal’s chief secretary and director-general of police were summoned to Delhi over the attack on BJP chief JP Nadda’s convoy with ”political motive”, asserting that law and order is a state subject. Banerjee, the chief whip of the Trinamool Congress […]

HM’s remark against custodial torture, a welcome move

Amit Shah likely to visit Bengal later this month

11:53 pm December 11, 2020

Kolkata: Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah is likely to visit West Bengal for two days later this month to take stock of the party organisation ahead of the 2021 assembly polls, a senior party functionary of the state said on Friday. Shah’s possible visit will take place in the backdrop of the ongoing tussle between […]

Unprecedented development in J-K: MoS Jitendra Singh

10:26 pm December 11, 2020

Udhampur: Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Friday said the ”unprecedented” development that has taken place in the last six years in Jammu and Kashmir is being seen by the voters. Addressing a series of public meetings as part of the District Development Council (DDC) election campaign here, Singh said the district got the rare distinction in the country as […]

PM Narendra Modi lays foundation stone of new Parliament building

3:35 pm December 10, 2020

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday laid the foundation stone of the new Parliament building here at an event that was attended by leaders from various political parties, cabinet ministers and ambassadors of different countries. Modi also performed the ground-breaking ceremony for the building, which is expected to be completed by 2022. Priests from the Sringeri Math Karnataka did […]

What COVID-19? Life is all normal in Lakshadweep

3:11 pm December 9, 2020

Kochi: The world may be in the grip of COVID-19 pandemic, disrupting daily schedules and robbing many of their weekend getaways, but life seems to be normal in the small Lakshadweep islands, which is yet to record the first positive case of coronavirus. No masks, no sanitisers, and many rules of COVID-19 are not in place and […]