Demonstrations against TMC leaders over cut money

Kolkata (IANS) Days after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee instructed party leaders to return to the public the cut money they took from them, angry local residents held demonstrations outside residences of several Trinamool Congress public…

Only 39% of land needed for bullet train project acquired

New Delhi (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project is missing on its deadline of land acquisition as till date only 39 per cent of the 1,380 hectares of land required has been acquired.

A senior…

Tej Pratap meets Lalu Prasad, gives Bhagavad Gita

Ranchi (IANS) After the humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha elections, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tej Pratap Yadav met his jailed and ailing father Lalu Prasad at a hospital, here on Saturday.

Tej Pratap met the RJD at the Rajendra Institute…

BJP delegation visits Bengal's violence-hit Bhatpara, demands probe into killings

Kolkata (IANS) A three-member BJP delegation on Saturday visited violence-hit Bhatpara in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district where two persons were shot dead during a clash on Thursday, and demanded a probe into the killings even as it accused…

Forest cover in state increases above national

Ranchi: Chief Minister Raghubar Das said that in the last four years the forest cover in the state has increased by 3 percent which is a big achievement for the state. The forest density in the state and area under forest cover has increased in Jharkhand…

Ujjwala Didi to be appointed in all panchayats of state: Raghubar

Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das said that so far 29 lakh woman in the state have been given the benefit of Ujjwala Yojana as a result of which in the last 4.5 years the percentage of LPG connection in the state…

Motu and Patlu performs yoga with Modi

Ranchi (IANS) Iconic cartoon characters Motu and Patlu also performed yoga with Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on the occasion of the fifth International Yoga Day.

The characters were in the middle of the Prabhat Tara ground where Modi…

Modi performs yoga with 30,000 people in Ranchi

Ranchi (IANS) Prime Minister Narendera Modi performed yoga along with around 30,000 people in Ranchi on Friday on the occasion of the fifth International Yoga Day.

The session continued for around 45 minutes at the Prabhat Tara ground here.…

Bullet proof equipment used by security forces being reviewed in J&K

Srinagar (IANS) The security forces in Jammu and Kashmir are taking both immediate and long term remedial measures to counter the threat posed to deployed troops by militants' use of steel-coated armour piercing bullets.

"Many immediate…

Yoga hasn't reached poor, tribals: Modi

Ranchi, June 21 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that yoga hasn't reached the poor people and tribal belts of the country, and urged them to make yoga an integral part of their lives. He also gave the moto "yoga for peace,…