New Delhi: The CBI withdrew Thursday from a Delhi court its application which had sought permission to further probe the politically sensitive Rs 64-crore Bofors payoff case. The agency told Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Navin Kumar Kashyap that it wants to withdraw the application filed February...
Jaipur: Congress president Rahul Gandhi met Thursday the Dalit woman who was allegedly gangraped in front of her husband in Rajasthan’s Alwar district, party sources said. Rahul was accompanied by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Deputy CM Sachin Pilot and Congress national general secretary Avinash Pandey,...
The state government has urged the Central team to revise the norms for restoration of energy infrastructure damaged in cyclone Fani Bhubaneswar: The state government Wednesday urged the visiting Central team to relax norms of State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) and National Disaster Response Fund...
New Delhi: In bad news for the farm sector, India is expected to receive below normal rainfall during the upcoming Monsoon which is likely to arrive in Kerala June 4 and there is a 15 per cent chance of drought, private weather forecaster Skymet said...
Bhubaneswar: Cyclone 'Fani', which pulverized parts of coastal Odisha May 3, had the longest life span among tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal, an eminent meteorologist said Tuesday. "The elongated time period of the extremely severe cyclonic storm continued for eleven days in the...
New Delhi: The central government Tuesday extended for five more years the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a terror group that was behind the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The ban has been extended under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention)...
Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s generous praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan for their support to the state in the aftermath of Fani has triggered speculation about a possible post-poll tie-up between the BJP and the BJD post May 23....
New Delhi: The Congress hit out Monday at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remarks that cloud cover could help IAF planes evade Pakistani radars during the Balakot strikes. The party said that while ‘boasting’ Modi ‘disrespected war strategy’ and committed an ‘unforgivable crime’. In...
Bhubaneswar: A nine-member central team reached Odisha Sunday to assess the damage caused by Cyclone Fani that ravaged the state's coastal districts May 3 and left 64 dead. The inter-ministerial team is being led by Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs Vivek Bharadwaj....
New Delhi, May 12: BJP candidate Bharati Ghosh was attacked in West Bengal and a poll officer was allegedly beaten up by an MLA of the saffron party in Uttar Pradesh during the Lok Sabha poll's sixth and penultimate phase on Sunday in which over...
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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