Rahul aides set to come under fire
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s close advisers may come under attack at the Congress Working Committee meeting that will be held here Monday, soon after the party’s worst performance in a...
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MLAs insist on Nitish as CM, target Sharad
MLAs insist on Nitish as CM, target SharadEmbattled Bihar CM and JD(U) stalwart Nitish Kumar on Sunday found overwhelming support from his party’s MLAs for his leadership of the state government...
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Modi meets Advani, Joshi; readies team
Modi meets Advani, Joshi; readies teamHectic parleys were held till late on Sunday between top BJP and RSS leaders over the composition of the Cabinet in a Narendra Modi-led government. Though the RSS...
View ArticleWhatsApp helps man reunite with family after 4 years
A man, who had gone missing from his native village in Uttar Pradesh four years back was reunited recently with his family, all thanks to a mobile messenger application, an NGO said on Sunday.Rajendra...
View ArticleExtradition of Lankan set in motion
The Tamil Nadu police has sought Interpol assistance to begin the extradition process of Mohamed Husnie, Sri Lankan national arrested in Malaysia, for planning to attack foreign missions in Chennai and...
View ArticleBihar minister faces ire over exam result glitches
Bihar education minister P.K. Shahi has drawn the Opposition parties’ ire and the RJD’s calls for resignation following alleged large-scale irregularities in the evaluation of answersheets of...
View ArticleBJP puts illegal migrants on notice
Atmosphere surcharged in Assam after the newly-elected Assam BJP MPs issued an ultimatum to illegal immigrants to start voluntarily leaving Assam.Announcing to start the campaign to drive out illegal...
View ArticleSamajwadi MP targeted over UP rapes
Samajwadi MP Dharmendra Yadav, who visited Katra village on Sunday, almost four days after the horrific incident, was targeted by the victims’ family members, who asked him: “Why are we being asked...
View ArticleBJP MP’s dad appointment revoked on Modi disapproval
After reportedly being pulled up by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Priyanka Rawat, the BJP MP from Barabanki, revoked the appointment of her father as her representative in her constituency.Sources said...
View ArticleModi’s first visit abroad may be to Brics summit
A trip to Fortaleza, a city in the northeastern part of Brazil, may well be Prime Minister’s Narendra Modi’s first trip abroad as PM in mid-July. The city will be hosting the sixth summit of Brics, a...
View ArticleGoverment orders study on road materials
After Union minister for surface transport and highways Nitin Gadkari asked his officials to study on tar and concrete cement roads, the safety issue is being discussed among officials. Even though...
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Information & Broadcasting ministry set to head govt outreach plan
Rural development minister Gopinath Munde and information and broadcast minister Prakash Javadekar are welcomed by BJP workers Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s directive asking various...
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PMO FB page gets 1 million ‘likes’ in 4 days
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity in social media continues to rise as the official Facebook page of the PMO has attracted over 1.1 million “likes” in just four days of its launch. On Twitter,...
View ArticleGovt’s MSP for paddy by mid-June?
The Narendra Modi-led NDA government is working out the minimum support price (MSP) on the lines of the BJP manifesto to ensure 50 per cent profit to farmers. The MSP is likely to be announced by...
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Bottlenecks in housing sector: Venkaiah Naidu
With an investment of `5 lakh crores in the housing sector stuck due to want of various clearances, urban development minister M. Venkaiah Naidu acknowledged that bottlenecks do exist in such projects...
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Smriti Irani for UGC restructuring
Union HRD minister Smriti Irani is understood to be pushing for major reform in higher education sector by contemplating the restructuring of the educational sector regulator University Grants...
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Narendra Modi to ask for 100 days plan reports on June 6
Talking tough, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday demanded status reports from all his Cabinet colleagues by June 6 on all the ongoing projects in their respective departments and ministries as he...
View ArticleBihar mukhias puzzled by Androids
Bihar’s panchayat heads or mukhias are a puzzled lot after the state government’s announcement of a scheme to equip them with Android smartphones as part of an effort to take e-governance to the...
View ArticleNewly-married woman sets herself afire, dies
In a bizarre but tragic incident, a newly-married woman in a Chhattisgarh village committed suicide by setting herself on fire to “fulfil her wish” to predecease her husband, the police said on...
View ArticleHunt to capture ‘next Veerappan’
Forest officials from the M.M. Hills Wildlife Sanctuary have launched a manhunt, which is being described as the biggest since the death of forest brigand Veerappan in 2004.For the last one week,...
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