Amid JNU ruckus, HRD secy Subramaniam shifted

New Delhi (IANS) In a significant bureaucratic reshuffle, Higher Education Secretary R. Subramaniam has been shunted out of the HRD Ministry to the Ministry of Social Justice.

While the IAS officer's transfer is being termed as routine,…

Curfew relaxed in Dibrugarh, flag march continues in Guwahati

Guwahati (IANS) An indefinite curfew which was imposed in Assam's Dibrugarh municipal area, was relaxed for five hours on Friday, while the Army and security forces have continued flag marches in Guwahati city, a day after two persons were killed…

Sensex jumps 300 pts, Nifty tops 12k in early trade

Mumbai (IANS) Sensex advanced over 300 points during the early trade on Friday while the Nifty surpassed the 12,000 mark.

Investors were upbeat owing to the Fed's dovish stance on future rate trajectory and strengthening rupee.

At…

President nod for Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, turned Act

New Delhi (IANS) In a late Thursday night order, President Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, letting it become an Act allowing Indian citizenship to six non-Muslim minority migrants facing religious persecution…

CCL conferred with “India Sports Award 2019”

Ranchi: Bagging third national award of the year, CCL created a record in itself, when FICCI India Sports Award for “Best Company Promoting Sports (Public Sector)” was conferred during an event organised on December 11th at FICCI, Federation House,…

J'khand poll: Voting for 12 seats ends, 57.96% votes cast

Ranchi (IANS) Voting ended for 12 of the 17 assembly seats at 3 p.m. in the third phase of the polls with 57.96 per cent votes being cast on Thursday.

The voting will end at 5 p.m. for the Ranchi, Hatia, Kanke, Ramgarh, and Barkatha assembly…

13.05% voting till 9 a.m. in Jharkhand third phase polls

Ranchi (IANS) Jharkahnd recorded 13.05 per cent voting till 9 a.m. in the third phase of polling on Thursday. The voting for 17 Assembly seats commenced at 7 a.m., amidst tight security.

The Silli assembly witnessed highest polling with 16.35…

Modi, Shah urge Jharkhand to vote in large numbers

New Delhi (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday urged the people of Jharkhand to vote in maximum number, as 17 constituencies went for voting under the third phase of the Assembly elections.

"The third…

8 columns of Indian Army deployed in Assam, Tripura

New Delhi (IANS) To control the deteriorating law and order situation over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB), 2019, eight columns of the Indian Army was on Thursday deployed to Assam and Tripura as per the requests made by the governments of…

The curious case of Bengal's refugees

Kolkata (IANS) Sabita Das, who earns her living by working as cook in some households, has never had hesitation in telling people that she came to Kolkata (then Calcutta) from Barishal in Bangladesh in the early 1990s, as her parents could not provide…