DoT directs telcos to pay AGR dues 'immediately'

New Delhi (IANS) Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Friday directed all telecom licensees to make immediate payment of dues in compliance with the Supreme Court order of October 24 last year.

The DoT'S Licensing Finance wing, in…

Erdogan attempts to rile up Muslims in Pakistan over Kashmir

New Delhi/Islamabad (IANS) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once again come to stand by Pakistan, which has been facing diplomatic isolation over Kashmir.

Addressing a joint session of Parliament in Islamabad, for the fourth time,…

CM directs to solve complaints related to old age and widow pension on priority basis

Ranchi: Chief Minister Hemant Soren has directed the officials to accord priority is solving complaints which are related to old age, widow and divyang pension on a priority basis.

He also asked them that there should be a lack of commitment…

70th quarterly meeting of SLBC held, officals call for more loans to farmers & MSMEs

Ranchi: The 70th quarterly meeting of the State Level Bankers Committee (SLBC) was held here on Thursday which was attended by senior government officials and heads of the different banks and financial institutions working in the state.

Principal Secretary…

Health Dept to look into providing better facilities to journalists: Minister

Ranchi: State’s Health Minister Banna Gupta said that his department will work to provide better health care facilities to the journalists in the state. 

Speaking after handing over the keys of an ambulance for the press club he said that the journalists…

Landmines seized from Maoist hideout in Palamau

Ranchi (IANS) The police in a joint operation with the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) seized landmines and weapons from a Maoist hideout in the Palamau district of Jharkhand on Thursday.

According to the police, the joint operation was…

Trinamool boycotts E-W Metro inauguration as didi 'ignored'

Kolkata (IANS) Alleging that its supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been "ignored" at the inauguration of the East West Metro, the state's ruling Trinamool Congress on Thursday decided to boycott the programme.

The…

Time for Congress to reinvent itself with new ideology: Scindia

Niwari (Madhya Pradesh) (IANS) Terming the 2020 Delhi Assembly poll results "disappointing", Congress General Secretary Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday said that the party needs to reinvent itself with new ideology, new thinking and new ways of functioning.

Ex-militant commander killed in Srinagar mosque

Srinagar (IANS) A prominent cleric and former militant commander was found murdered in a mosque in Srinagar.

He has been identified as 80-year-old Abdul Ghani Dar alias Abdullah Ghazali who was a prominent Ahle Hadees cleric and was also one…

Baby Mufflerman invited to Kejriwal's oath ceremony

New Delhi (IANS) Baby Mufflerman, whose photos went viral on social media as the Aam Aadmi Party swept the Delhi Assembly polls, has been invited to the swearing-in ceremony of Arvind Kejriwal on February 16.

About one-year-old Avyaan Tomar…