New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address two election rallies in Anantnag and Srinagar districts of Kashmir Valley on December 6 with BJP exuding confidence that it will achieve its ‘Mission 44+’ to form the next government in the state. “Prime Minister Modi will address two election rallies inRead More

New Delhi: Bahujan Samaj Party ( BSP) chief Mayawati on Monday said her party will not oppose the passage of the Insurance Bill during the Winter Session of Parliament if the select committee, which is scrutinizing the bill agrees to their demands. The Insurance Bill, which was heavily debated duringRead More

Agartala, The Airports Authority of india (AAI) has completed preliminary work to upgrade Agartala airport as an international airport to boost the region’s connectivity with southeast Asia, an official said here Monday. “The prime minister is likely to lay the foundation for upgrading the Agartala airport on December 1. However,Read More

New Delhi, Smriti Irani, Union Human Resource Development Minister, has stoked a fresh controversy by meeting an astrologer. Smriti travelled to Karoi village in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara along with her husband Zubin Irani to meet Pandit Nathulal Vyas on Sunday. The visit was aimed at expressing gratitude to the astrologer whoRead More

Jaipur, India can replicate Singapore’s success story with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Clean India campaign as it will help its people and the country to be more productive, according to noted sanitation activist Jack Sim. Sim is the founder of the World Toilet Organisation which promotes sanitation, especially setting upRead More

Kolkata, Launching a fresh attack on BJP, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that no conspiracy could stop her from going ahead in carrying out development work in the state. “There is conspiracy going on against us. Let them (BJP). I will show them (BJP) that noRead More

Bengaluru,President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the Commonwealth Science Conference here tomorrow, which is being organised for the first time in nearly 50 years. The four-day conference is being organised by the Royal Society in association with the Government of india and The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust. Britain’s Prince Andrew,Read More

New Delhi, CBI on Monday questioned former Assam Minister and Congress leader Anjan Dutta in connection with its probe in the Saradha chit fund scam in which thousands of investors were allegedly duped. Dutta was summoned at the CGO complex in Kolkata for questioning, CBI sources said. An MLA fromRead More

Chennai, Thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the “timely intervention” in securing the release of five fishermen on death row, Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam on Monday urged him to ensure the “prompt release” of 38 fishermen, including 14 detained by the Sri Lankan authorities on Sunday. Bringing to Mr Modi’sRead More

Srinagar: Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, and Leh, in Ladakh region, experienced the coldest nights of the season so far as the cold wave further tightened its grip in the state. The mercury in Srinagar recorded a low of minus 1.4 degrees Celsius, down from the previousRead More