Banna Gupta accuses Centre of Step Motherly treatment after not allowed to speak in Covid review meet with PM

Ranchi: In view of the possible threat of corona infection increasing again in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with the Chief Ministers of many states on Wednesday where Health Minister Banna Gupta represented Jharkhand. 

Counting of votes for first phase of panchayat polls will be done in Pandra - Deputy Commissioner

Ranchi: Counting of votes will be done in Pandra in the first phase under the threetier Panchayat Election while polling parties and material will be dispatched from the football stadium at Morhabadi.

District Election Officer cum Deputy Commissioner Ranchi,…

ED attaches assets worth Rs 1.28 cr of former senior manager of MECON Ltd in money laundering case

Ranchi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached assets worth Rs 1.28 Crore belonging to former senior manager of Mecon Ltd Upendra Nath Mandal and his wife Supriti Mandal in a case of criminal misconduct by a public servant.

Entire world views India through Delhi, need control over it, Centre to SC

New Delhi (IANS) The Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that transfers and postings in Delhi should stay under its control, contending that the entire world views India through Delhi and the city also houses high officials from all countries,…

India offers additional $500 million after China's muted response to Sri Lanka's request

Colombo/New Delhi (IANS) "A friend in need is a friend indeed" is the saying as it goes. The dictum is in full play as India has offered Sri Lanka an additional $500 million to help it to import fuel while it is in an advance stage of discussion with…

India will engage with world with own terms, era of dictation over: Jaishankar

New Delhi (IANS) India will engage with the world on its own terms and the country does not require anyone's approval to do so, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar asserted on Wednesday.

"It is better to engage with the world on the…

KCR hints at floating national party with alternative agenda

Hyderabad (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday hinted at floating a national party to implement an alternative national agenda.

Addressing the plenary of TRS here, KCR, as the Chief Minister is popularly known,…

Nepal bans import of luxurious items as economic crisis deepens

Kathmandu (IANS) Nepal government has imposed a total ban on the import of 10 luxurious goods until mid-July 2022 after the country's economic crisis deepened.

The measure has been taken to stop further depleting the country's foreign…

Lobbying by US-based Islamist groups against India on grounds of religious freedom

New Delhi (IANS) There has been a continual lobbying against India, particularly on the grounds of religious freedom, by influencing the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), The Disinfolab reported.

India was listed as…

11 electrocuted in TN religious chariot procession

Chennai (IANS) Eleven persons were electrocuted and 16 others injured when the top of a chariot belonging to Appar mutt touched the overhead power cable in Thanjavur district in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday morning.

According to police, the accident…