'Don't harass petitioners': SC to Tripura Police on sending notice despite its order

New Delhi (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday pulled up the Tripura Police for sending notice to people for posts on social media over the alleged communal violence, despite its interim order restraining the state authorities.

A bench of Justices…

Mamata likely to sever ties with PK's I-PAC

Kolkata (IANS) Recently in an interview Trinamool Congress All India General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee in a way admitted that he has differences with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The admission comes just a couple of days after Trinamool…

BJP set to retain UP albeit with a much reduced majority

New Delhi (IANS) The final opinion poll results of the C-Voter ABP News were released in the evening on February 7, three days before the first round of polling in Uttar Pradesh on February 10.

According to the poll, the BJP led by Chief Minister…

ISI-funded mosques, madarsas on India-Nepal border raise serious security concerns

New Delhi (IANS) The rising number of mosques and madarsas in the last three years along the Indo-Nepal border adjoining Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal is a matter of serious security concerns, intelligence agencies have warned in a latest report.

3 Pak smugglers killed by BSF at border in Jammu's Samba sector

Jammu (IANS) Three Pakistani smugglers have been neutralised on the International Border (IB) in the Samba sector of Jammu and 36 packets of narcotics were recovered from them, BSF said on Sunday.

"In the early hours of 6 Feb, the alert troops…

PM leads nation in mourning the passing of 'Lata Didi'

New Delhi (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the nation in mourning the death of the Nightingale of India, Lata Mangeshkar, who succumbed to multiple organ failure after 28 days of hospitalisation at Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai, on Sunday.

As Bengal's debt piles up, state govt applies brakes on spending

Kolkata (IANS) Recently West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee directed all the departments to cut down unnecessary expenditure beyond the approved budget and not to take any new project without the approval of the Chief Secretary or the finance…

CBI seeks sanction to probe Union power secretary, agriculture secretary in UP PF scam

New Delhi (IANS) The Union power secretary Alok Kumar and agriculture secretary Sanjay Agarwal may soon be repatriated to their cadre state Uttar Pradesh where the CBI has sought sanction to investigate them in a Rs 2,268 crore PF scam, as per media…

Heavy snowfall thaws frozen memories of Simla

Shimla (IANS) Heavy snowfall thawed the frozen memories of Simla -- the erstwhile capital of British India, as a thick quilt, and not blanket, of white covered the Queen of Hills, now called Shimla, in the past two days -- the highest spell in one…

Blinken to meet Jaishankar, reaffirm vitally important strategic partnership: US official

New York (IANS) US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar to "reaffirm our vitally important strategic partnership" when they are in Australia for a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Quad bloc…