Former Uttarakhand BJP chief Trivendra Singh Rawat was sworn in today+ as the state’s chief minister after the party won a landslide victory there in last month’s Assembly polls. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah were among the top BJP leaders who attended the swearing-in ceremony. Governor KK Paul administered the oath. The BJP won 57 seats […]
» Read moreTwo low intensity blast took place in Agra early on Saturday morning. No injury or loss of life was reported because of the explosions. According to officials both the blasts happened at 6:45 a.m. near Agra Cant railway station. While the first blast took place at the dumping ground near the railway track, the other one happened in a house in […]
» Read moreFormer national racing champion Ashwin Sundar and his wife Niveditha were killed when the car in which they travelling caught fire after ramming into a tree at MRC Nagar in Chennai’s Raja Annamalai Puram area. The accident occurred at around 3.30 a.m. when the couple were proceeding in a BMW car from MRC Nagar towards Porur. The car was reportedly […]
» Read moreFormer Goa legislator Vishwajit Rane on Friday stepped up his attack on Congress general secretary Digivjaya Singh and said it’s time the veteran politician called it quits. Vishwajit Rane had on Thursday defied the party whip and abstained from voting during the trust vote. He later resigned from the Congress party. “Digvijaya should now take retirement from politics. The kind of […]
» Read moreThe chief minister of Uttarakhand, the BJP on Friday named Trivendra Singh Rawat, a former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) pracharak, for the post. The decision came after the conclusion of a legislature party meeting here on Friday, where consent was drawn from the party MLAs on Mr. Rawat’s name as the State’s ninth Chief Minister. Mr. Rawat (56), who is […]
» Read moreThe U.S. state of Kansas has recognised March 16 as ‘Indian-American Appreciation Day’ to honour an Indian techie who was killed last month in a racially-motivated hate crime. Srinivas Kuchibhotla (32) was killed when 51-year-old U.S. Navy veteran Adam Purinton opened fire at him and his friend Alok Madasani at a bar in Olathe on February 22 before yelling “get […]
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