A party office of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) was attacked in Kolkata while a party office of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was targeted in West Bengal Jhargram district. The attacks were reported late on Tuesday evening. CPI (M) supporters said that the attack at Surya Sen Street, party office in Kolkata occurred when supporters Students’ Federation of India […]
» Read moreThe ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday effected a shake-up in its party ranks, appointing its coordinator O. Panneerselvam’s son to a key post. Mr. Panneerselvam and AIADMK co-coordinator and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami announced the appointment of P. Ravindranath Kumar as Theni district secretary of ‘Puratchi Thalaivi Amma Peravai’, a forum named after the late Chief […]
» Read moreThe CBI has registered an FIR against Air Asia Group CEO Tony Fernandes and others for alleged violation of norms in getting licences for international operations. The case pertains to allegations of getting relaxation from the 5/20 rules of the Ministry of Aviation for procuring licences and also from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board rules. It is also alleged that […]
» Read moreTwo days after External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj divulged contents of a conversation between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his British counterpart, Theresa May, over the extradition of fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya, Indian officials are willing to push the case to deport Mr. Mallya with British officials at the Home Affairs dialogue in Delhi on Wednesday. The dialogue has already […]
» Read moreLok Sabha MP from Odisha’s Kendrapara constituency, Baijayant Panda, resigned from the Biju Janata Dal on Monday. Mr. Panda, who is the vice-president of IMFA, a ferro alloy producer, was suspended from the primary membership of the BJD for “anti-party” activities on January 24. The dissident MP, who remained a Rajya Sabha member of the BJD from 2000 to 2006 […]
» Read moreA 21-year-old pregnant woman has been allegedly gang-raped by an auto-rickshaw driver and his two accomplices in Manesar. The woman, who is over two months pregnant, told the police that she was on her way home in auto-rickshaw on May 21 afternoon when three men in the vehicle force-fed her sedative drug and gang-raped her. A native of Uttar Pradesh, […]
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