New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Permanent Representative of Nigeria to United Nations, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, here on Sunday. Jaishankar assured the Ambassador of India of complete assistance for the work of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) ahead of his succession as President of the 74th session of the Assembly. According to media reports, Bande
Solapur:Union Home Minister Amit Shah took a shot at the Congress and Sharad Pawar Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Maharashtra on Sunday over their party leaders entering the BJP in the run-up to the state election due later this year. Amit Shah, the BJP president, was in south Maharashtra's Solapur, addressing the ''Mahajanadesh Yatra'' launched
Brace up for huge penalties as the 2019 Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, which Parliament cleared last month, came into force. If any one is caught driving without a seat-belt, it will cost a fine of Rs 1,000, which was earlier Rs 100. If one is caught driving while using a mobile phone, it will invite a fine of between Rs 1,000-5,000. Earlier it was Rs 1,000. Drunken driving fine will be Rs.10,000, earlier fine was Rs
Kolkata: BJP MP Arjun Singh suffered head wounds on Sunday after police cracked down on party workers who set up a highway blockade in Kankinara, North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. Arjun Singh, seen in a blood-soaked shirt and a bandage, stated that he and his party colleagues were protesting against the "capture" of
K.A.Viswanathan Mumbai: Goud Saraswat Brahmin (GSB) Seva Mandal, King Circle, which is considered to be one of the richest Ganpati pandals has taken an insurance cover of Rs 266.65 crore this year. The Mandal’s 65th year Ganeshotsave celebrations will run for five days till September 6 The14.5 ft height idol is adorned with 68 kilos of 22 caret gold and
New Delhi: Tamil Nadu BJP chief, Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan, and former Union minister Bandaru Dattatreya are on today's list of five new governors announced by President Ram Nath Kovind. Dr. Soundararajan was named Telangana Governor-having a distinct Governor is the first for the latest state in the country. Bandaru Dattatreya was appointed to replace Kalraj
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress Suspreme Mamata Banerjee initiated a blister attack on the Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC) process after the last NRC list was released on Saturday. Banerjee took to Twitter and claimed that Bengali-speaking population were the worse sufferers of the procedure. "The NRC fiasco has exposed all those who tried to
New Delhi: The SC collegium has cleared eight names for the chief justices of the High Court, including Madhya Pradesh, acting Chief Justice Ravi Shankar Jha, as Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The Government made Jha the acting CJ in June and last week returned the suggestion of the Collegium of
The railway station in Samba district will soon have a freight terminal, the first of its kind in Jammu and Kashmir, having the capacity to move 6,000 to 9,000 metric tonnes of goods per day, officials said on Saturday. The team led by Chief Transport Planning Manager (CTPM), Railways, Devendra Singh visited the Samba station in