NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee suffered an injury on Saturday after boarding a helicopter in Durgapur. The Trinamool Congress supremo slipped and fell inside the chopper as she was about to take her seat.The CM was helped by her security personnel and she continued with her onward travel to Asansol, said media…
NEW DELHI: US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is currently investigating products from spice manufacturers MDH and Everest following Hong Kong’s decision to halt sales of certain items due to the alleged presence of high levels of a carcinogenic pesticide.“The FDA is aware of the reports and is gathering additional information about the situation,” an…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Saturday moved to the Election Commission regarding the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) raid on two locations linked to an alleged associate of Sandeshkhali accused Shajahan Sheikh.The TMC asserted that the CBI’s actions were intended to smear the party’s reputation amidst the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. On Friday, CBI…
NEW DELHI: Advocate Prashant Bhushan on Friday expressed support for inheritance tax asking Congress to be on the “front foot on Sam Pitroda’s remarks” on the same, adding that every rich country has this tax.He further said that the BJP government has been opposing this tax “because it is tied to Arabpatis like Adani/Ambani whose…
New Delhi: The Union government has initiated a process to dismiss Khajan Singh, a DIG-ranked former chief sports officer of CRPF, on charges of sexual harassment levelled against him by some women working in the force, official sources said Friday.Singh, an Arjuna awardee in 1984, had won a silver medal at the 1986 Seoul Asian…
NEW DELHI: India has stressed the need to adopt “a zero-tolerance approach towards terrorism in all its forms” for prosperity and development of member states of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), which also includes Pakistan.Defence secretary Giridhar Aramane, who led the Indian delegation at SCO defence ministers‘ meeting at Astana in Kazakhastan, underlined India’s steadfast commitment…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Friday said PM Modi and BJP chief JP Nadda were resorting to polarisation as they were fearful of losing Lok Sabha elections. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said Nadda presented former PM Manmohan Singh’s comments in a wrong context.“Nadda’s allegations are based on lies. It seems that he is following PM…
KOLKATA/MALDA/PATNA: PM Narendra Modi blamed Trinamool Congress on Friday for leaving nearly 26,000 families in Bengal without a livelihood by orchestrating an alleged hiring scam that forced Calcutta HC to scrap appointments made by the School Service Commission in 2016 and order some recruits to return their salaries with interest.“Trinamool has played with the future…
NEW DELHI: Armed with a video of his predecessor Manmohan Singh standing by his remark that “minorities, particularly Muslims”, should have first claim on the nation’s resources, PM Modi on Friday claimed vindication and sharpened his “appeasement” charge against Congress and its allies.In the 2009 video, Singh, possibly in response to a question at a…
NEW DELHI: A turnout of 64.7% was recorded in 88 Lok Sabha constituencies across 12 states and the Union territory of J&K in the second phase of elections on Friday which was largely peaceful even as several states saw punishing heat conditions with temperature crossing 40 degrees Celsius at many places.The turnout was lower than…
