Police 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 […]
» Read moreMillionaire money-lender, Datta D Phuge, famous as ‘Pimpri Goldman’ was found clobbered to death near Dighi, police said. The high-profile businessman’s vehicle was accosted by some unknown persons on outskirts of Pune late on Thursday night. They reportedly dragged him out, attacked him with a sickle and then pounded him to death with huge stones in front of his son before fleeing from […]
» Read moreNext year’s Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress on Thursday named Sheila Dikshit as its chief ministerial candidate. She will be up against Akhilesh Yadav of the SP and Mayawati of the BSP. The BJP is yet to name a CM candidate. The announcement is a departure from the Congress’s past and comes at the behest of poll strategist […]
» Read morePopular Sanskrit and Telugu scholar Salaka Raghunatha Sarma has announced that he is going to launch ‘Anna Gnana Samaradhana’ from July 17 on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Mr. Sarma told the media on Thursday that he wanted to donate part of his pension, honorariums from spiritual lectures and other publications to the programme. He said that he had […]
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