Bengaluru Development Minister K.J. George resigned from the Cabinet on Monday evening, hours after a JMFC court at Madikeri ordered filing of FIR against him and two top police officers in connection with the alleged suicide of Deputy Superintendent of Police M.K. Ganapathy. The deceased officer had, in a television interview before his death, alleged harassment by the three. Chief […]
» Read moreA six-year-old boy died four days after he was thrashed allegedly by his senior, a 7-year-old, at a school in Hyderabad, police said. Mohammed Ibrahim, a class one student, suffered serious injuries after another boy, studying in class 3 in the same school, allegedly bullied, beat and kicked Ibrahim four times in stomach in the school on July 12. He […]
» Read moreAn earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 struck eastern Japan on Sunday and shook buildings in Tokyo, officials and witnesses said, but there was no danger of a tsunami and no immediate report of injuries or major damage. Earthquakes are common in Japan, one of the world’s most seismically active areas, which accounts for a fifth of the world’s earthquakes […]
» Read morePolice in Bangladesh have arrested a professor from an elite university alleging that he had rented a flat to gunmen who attacked a cafe in Dhaka earlier this month and killed 20 hostages.
» Read morePema Khandu was on Sunday sworn in as the ninth Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh marking the culmination of fast-paced political developments in this northeastern State. Chowna Mein was sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister. Son of late Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu, 37-year-old Mr. Pema Khandu, who became the youngest Chief Minister in the country, and Mr. Mein were […]
» Read moreThe Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA) has been rejigged with Smriti Irani being dropped as a special invitee and her successor in the HRD ministry Prakash Javadekar elevated as a member. Najma Heptulla, the minority affairs minister who had resigned from the Union Cabinet earlier this week, is no more a member of the panel. In the recent Cabinet […]
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