New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind expressed confidence Wednesday that the people of Jammu and Kashmir will immensely benefit from the revocation of provisions of Article 370 that gave special status to the state and its bifurcation into two Union Territories. Delivering his Independence Day...
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is adamant that the decision to scrap Article 370, thereby revoking the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, was unilaterally accepted by the people of India. Several sections of the Indian society, particularly the Opposition, have strongly opposed the...
Bhubaneswar: After a huge hue and cry, the state government came up with a provisional statement of expenditure of Odisha Men’s Hockey World Cup 2018. As per the statement, the government spent Rs 59.59 crore for the event while the total budgetary allocation for the...
Bhubaneswar: The BJD government has finally, albeit indirectly, admitted that it distributed huge amounts of public money under its KALIA scheme ahead of simultaneous elections in the state earlier this year. With an aim to win over farmers before elections, the state government had launched...
Bhubaneswar: A disturbing fact has gone unnoticed amid the recent uproar over the rising sexual offences against women in the state. A whitepaper by the state Home department and data available from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) revealed that there was a constant rise...
Thiruvananthapuram: With rains subsiding in many parts of Kerala, search operations are on in landslide-hit Kavalappara and Puthumala in Malappuram andWayanad districts. The death toll in the monsoon fury climbed to 76 and 2.87 lakh people has sought refuge in relief camps. The toll is...
Srinagar: Eid al-Adha prayers Monday morning at various mosques in Kashmir concluded without any violence, police said, but the festive buzz was missing with curfew-like restrictions in place across the Valley. According to the Union Home Ministry, people came out in good numbers to offer...
New Delhi: Amid simmering discontent between India and Pakistan over the government's decision to abrogate Article 370 on Jammu and Kashmir the Intelligence Bureau (IB) has issued an alert about Islamic State (IS) and ISI-backed terrorist groups planning attacks in India on the occasion of...
Thiruvananthapuram: After pounding Kerala for days, rains abated Sunday even as the death toll in the monsoon fury mounted to 60 with over 2.27 lakh people being sheltered in 1,551 relief camps across the state. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan held a meeting with senior officials...
New Delhi: As the evening wore on into night, Sonia Gandhi's coterie trumped Rahul Gandhi's Young Turk to appoint her as the interim Congress president. After day-long deliberations, the Congress Saturday failed to name a party leader from outside the Gandhi family. The Congress Working...
By Aakar Patel Attacks on Bengali Christians and their churches have begun following the BJP's victory in the state. Last...
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By Dilip Cherian The Centre appears keen to give young IPS officers early exposure to the workings and priorities of...
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The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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