Chandigarh, The three-day session of the BJP-led Haryana Assembly will commence here tomorrow, with all the newly-elected 90 MLAs taking oath on the first day. For the first time BJP formed the government on its own after elections to the 90-member assembly were held last month, in which the partyRead More

New Delhi, Buoyed by recent poll victories, BJP today embarked on a fresh membership drive amid Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s strong pitch for making it all inclusive so that all sections of the society feel their “flower” is represented in this “bouquet” of the party. Modi, who launched the renewedRead More

Mumbai, As the uncertainty over whether former ally Shiv Sena would join the BJP government in Maharashtra persists, the Uddhav Thackeray-led party on Saturday said it was confident that “the talks between the two parties will continue in a positive manner”. “Sena president Uddhav Thackeray had detailed discussion with BJPRead More

New Delhi, Jharkhand Congress chief Sukhdeo Bhagat, who lost the 2009 elections as the sitting MLA, today figured in the first list of 14 party candidates whose names were announced for the upcoming state Assembly polls, a day after the party snapped its ties with the ruling JMM. Bhagat gotRead More

* Sikh head priests, top leaders of SAD and BJP starts construction * Memorial to be called ‘Wall of Tears’ says DSGMC president Manjit Singh GK New Delhi, The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) today started construction of November 1984 Sikh genocide memorial in the sanctum sanctorum of GurdwaraRead More

Shimla, Fourteen people, including three women and two children, were killed when a privately-owned overcrowded mini bus rolled down a 700-metre gorge in Himachal Pradesh’s Chamba district Saturday, police said. The bus was going to Himgiri from Chamba town when it fell into the gorge near Saru nullah in SalooniRead More

Delhi, Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh today stirred a controversy by saying that time has come for Rahul Gandhi to take charge of the party from his mother Sonia Gandhi, a statement that was described as his “personal views” by the party. “It’s a general feeling of Congress workers thatRead More

Chandigarh, Haryana government will set up a ‘CM window’ in each district of the state for grievance redressal of the people. “A CM-Window would be set up at every district headquarter to redress grievances of the people so that they don’t have to come to Chandigarh for the same,” HaryanaRead More

New Delhi, Apprehending foggy conditions in the winter season, railways has decided to cancel 30 trains, mostly north bound, for 47 days from December 31 this year. “Schedules of total 36 trains would be affected from December 31, 2014 to February 15, 2015. While 30 trains will remain cancelled, fourRead More

Mumbai, The Bombay High Court has directed Chief Commissioners for Persons with Disabilities at the Centre and inMaharashtra to instruct all educational institutions in the country to provide a barrier-free environment for disabled students by March 2015. The direction was given yesterday by a bench headed by Chief Justice Mohit ShahRead More