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Sidhu's resignation accepted; Punjab CM holds Power portfolio

Sidhu's resignation accepted; Punjab CM holds Power portfolio

20-07-2019 comments

Chandigarh (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday accepted state Power Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu's resignation.

The Chief Minister forwarded the one-line resignation to Governor V.P. Singh Badnore for formal acceptance,…

Corruption in NRC process, government wants to engage senior officers for re-verification

Corruption in NRC process, government wants to engage senior officers for re-verification

20-07-2019 comments

New Delhi (IANS) The process of preparing the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam has been rigged due to corruption, believes the government which now wants to engage senior officers for re-verification of the exercise aimed at identifying…

18 Indians aboard tanker seized by Iran; India trying to secure their release

18 Indians aboard tanker seized by Iran; India trying to secure their release

20-07-2019 comments

New Delhi/Tehran (IANS) Eighteen Indians, including the ship's captain, are among 23 crew members of a British-flagged oil tanker seized by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions in the Gulf. India said on Saturday it is in touch…

Modi-Xi summit will take bilateral ties to new heights: Chinese envoy

Modi-Xi summit will take bilateral ties to new heights: Chinese envoy

20-07-2019 comments

Beijing (IANS) The informal summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi later this year will take the bilateral relations to new heights but at the same time the two countries cannot let "individual"…

Three-time Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit dead, tributes pour in

Three-time Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit dead, tributes pour in

20-07-2019 comments

New Delhi (IANS) Veteran Congress leader and former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit passed away on Saturday at a private hospital here following cardiac arrest. She was 81.

According to the Fortis Escorts Heart Institute,…

Azam Khan declared 'land mafia' by UP government

Azam Khan declared 'land mafia' by UP government

19-07-2019 comments

Rampur (IANS) Samajwadi MP and former Uttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan has finally been declared a 'land mafia' by the Yogi Adityanath government.

The Rampur district administration put Khan's name on the 'anti-land mafia'…

Priyanka detained after protest in Mirzapur

Priyanka detained after protest in Mirzapur

19-07-2019 comments

Mirzapur (Uttar Pradesh) (IANS) Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi was on Friday detained after police stopped her while going to Sonbhadra district in Uttar Pradesh to meet survivors of caste violence, party supporters said.

As police…

Militants kill Mehbooba kin's guard in J&K

Militants kill Mehbooba kin's guard in J&K

19-07-2019 comments

Srinagar (IANS) Militants on Friday shot dead the security guard of former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti's cousin and decamped with his service rifle in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district, police said.

Militants fired at constable…

How bureaucrats cheated tribals, turning Sonebhadra into a den of corruption

How bureaucrats cheated tribals, turning Sonebhadra into a den of corruption

19-07-2019 comments

Several thousand acres of land belonging to poor tribal farmers in Sonebhadra were usurped by land mafia in an unholy nexus with bureaucrats. Wednesday's carnage in Sonebhadra's Ghorawal tehsil, in which 10 tribal farmers were killed, was…

UP BJP MLA enrols schools students as party members

UP BJP MLA enrols schools students as party members

18-07-2019 comments

Chandauli (Uttar Pradesh) (IANS) Making a mockery of the BJP's much-publicized membership drive, Sushil Singh, party MLA from this seat in Uttar Pradesh enrolled school students as party members.

Sushil Singh, nephew of mafia don-turned-politician…

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