Lucknow, Aug 24: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and state BJP chief Mahendra Nath Pandey on Friday handed over the urns containing the ashes of late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to party functionaries and ministers, to take them to different districts of the state where they will be immersed in 16 rivers.After...
New Delhi, Aug 24: The Supreme Court on Friday moved closer to the live streaming of its proceedings as it said that it was an expansion of the concept of open court hearing of matters without crowding the court rooms.Reserving the order on a batch of petitions including by senior counsel Indira Jaising, the...
New Delhi, Aug 24: Keeping in view the unprecedented floods in Kerala, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed with the Disaster Management sub-committee that the water level at Mullaperiyar dam be maintained at 139.99 feet till August 31.A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud took into note...
Berlin, Aug 24: Congress President Rahul Gandhi has alleged that the BJP and RSS were weakening the country by causing divisions and spreading hatred.Addressing an event organised by the Indian Overseas Congress on Thursday, Gandhi said the Congress differed with the way the Narendra Modi Government functions. Our work is to bring the people...
Dhaka, Aug 24: Hafez Ullah had fled Myanmar in early September last year, following the torching of his village near the Maungdaw township in northern Rakhine by the Army.On Friday, it will be a day shy of one year when the Rohingya exodus to neighbouring Bangladesh had begun after the Myanmar Army launched an...
Imphal, Aug 24: Sleuths of National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday night recovered nine 9mm pistols from the residence of P. Haokip, the 'commander-in-chief' of the United Kuki Liberation Front, a signatory to the peace pact with the Centre.The UKLF is an insurgent outfit in Manipur whose members came overground after signing Suspension of...
Chennai, Aug 24: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami on Friday said Kerala government was giving wrong information about Mullaperiyar dam so that the water storage level does not go up to 152 feet.Speaking to reporters at Mukkombu near Tiruchirappalli, about 350 km from the state capital, Palaniswami refuted Kerala government's allegation that opening...
New Delhi, Aug 24: Delhi Police on Friday arrested a youth for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor girl in south Delhi.Police identified the accused as Prakash, 24, a resident of JJ Cluster in Rangpuri Pahadi located in Vasant Kunj. Prakash works as a ragpicker and was arrested with the help of local surveillance. During interrogation,...
Srinagar, Aug 24: One militant was killed on Friday in a gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district, police said.The militant's body was recovered from the gunfight area in Gandole village of Kokernag area. Firing has now stopped, but a search operation is ongoing. Identity of the victim is being ascertained,...
