Senior Trinamool Congress leader and Rajya Sabha member Mukul Roy on Monday resigned from the working committee and primary membership of the party. “Today, I will resign from the working committee of the Trinamool Congress… I will resign as Rajya Sabha member after the pujas,” Mr Roy said in a hurriedly called press conference. One of the most prominent leaders […]
» Read moreThe Enforcement Directorate has provisionally attached assets worth Rs.1.16 crore said to be linked to former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s son Karti Chidambaram. The assets in question are in the form of bank accounts and Rs.90 lakh in fixed deposits. The Directorate has taken the action in connection with a money laundering case. The agency alleges that attempts were being […]
» Read moreGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel won a fourth term in office on Sunday but will have to build an uneasy coalition to form a German government after her conservatives haemorrhaged support in the face of a surge by the far-right. The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) stunned the establishment by winning 13.1% of the vote, projected results showed, a result that […]
» Read moreBhavna Santosh Jadhav is just a few minutes old, but she already has in place her vital identity proof — the Aadhaar number. The girl’s parents enrolled for her Aadhaar number which they received in just six minutes after her birth today, in one of the rare cases of getting the vital identity proof within minutes of being born. The […]
» Read moreA militant was killed in an encounter with security forces on Sunday in Uri area near the Line of control in Baramulla district of Kashmir. “Cordon was laid and search operation started in Kalgai area of Uri this morning following information about presence of militants in the area,” an Army official said. He said the search operation tuned into an […]
» Read moreIn a shocking incident, a BPO employee was allegedly abducted from near the Golf Course metro station in Noida, gang-raped in a moving car and then dumped near the Akshardham temple in Delhi, the police said on Saturday. The victim contacted the Delhi police after which she was brought to Noida and an FIR was lodged at the Sector 39 […]
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