NEW DELHI: Former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren‘s wife Kalpana Soren on Saturday met jailed Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal‘s wife Sunita Kejriwal at her residence on 6 Flagstaff Road in Delhi.According to the officials, the meeting between the two lasted for for 15-20 minutes“What happened in Jharkhand two months ago, has happened in Delhi…
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NEW DELHI: Lok Janshakti Party (Ramvilas) on Saturday released a list of five candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Party Chief Chirag Paswan will be contesting from Hajipur. LJP, part of NDA government, is vying for seats in Vaishali, Hajipur, Samastipur, Khagaria, and Jamui. The party’s leader, Chirag Paswan, will be contesting from Hajipur,…
NEW DELHI: More than a week after Pasupati Kumar Paras resigned from Union cabinet in protest against not being accommodated in Bharatiya Janata Party‘s (BJP) seat sharing list in Bihar, the 71-year old backtracked and said that he and his party Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party (RLJP) are an integral part of National Democratic Alliance (NDA)….
NEW DELHI: The Bhartiya Janata Party on Saturday announced the list of election manifesto committee for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.BJP president JP Nadda announced the 27-member committee which will be headed by defence minister and former BJP chief Rajnath Singh. Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal were also appointed as the convenor and…
NEW DELHI: The Indian Navy will bring 9 Somali Pirates involved in the hijacking of an Iranian fishing vessel with 23 Pakistani crew to India.The Indian Navy recently intercepted and rescued an Iranian fishing vessel, Al-Kambar 786, along with its 23-member Pakistani crew in the Arabian Sea. The operation took place on Friday, prompted by…
NEW DELHI: The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha lost two more leaders as former MLAs Priyadarshi Mishra and Akash Das Nayak parted ways with the party. Mishra, who is the son-in-law of ex-Bhubaneswar MP Prasanna Patasani, has joined the BJP. While actor Akash Das Nayak’s next course of action is not known yet,…
NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu conferred the Bharat Ratna award to five eminent personalities on Saturday, including two former Prime Ministers. The country’s highest civilian honour was awarded to former prime ministers P V Narasimha Rao and Chaudhary Charan Singh, agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan and two-time former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur, posthumously at…
NEW DELHI: A data analysis from 265 districts in 17 states/UTs shows out of 9,551 child marriages stopped or prevented through legal interventions by a coalition of civil society organisations in 2022-23, nearly 60% girls were in 15 to 18-year age group.The data highlights vulnerability of even younger girls as it shows 26% of girls…
Will boost cervical cancer research in next term: PMNEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Friday expressed his govt’s commitment to allocating funds to scientists for local research in cervical cancer. During an interaction with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Modi emphasised the need to develop vaccines at minimal cost to protect girls across the country.Modi said…
