Lobbying has intensified among NDA partners in Bihar for the post of Speaker in the assembly, with BJP MLA Prem Kumar considered a frontrunner. A special assembly session will be convened soon to elect the Speaker.
The Congress party has released its initial list of 48 candidates for the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections, including key state leaders. The announcement precedes the finalization of seat-sharing arrangements with Mahagathbandhan allies.
Kamini Kaushal, who began her career with the 1946 classic Neecha Nagar and went on to act in a host of films right till 2022, passed away in her Mumbai home on Thursday night.
The Allahabad High Court overturned a trial court's decision, acquitting five individuals previously convicted in connection with the 2007 terrorist attack on a CRPF camp in Rampur, citing defects in the investigation.
The Allahabad High Court dismissed a plea seeking the use of 'disputed structure' instead of 'Shahi Eidgah Mosque' in Mathura case proceedings.
One hundred years ago, a group of 10 revolutionaries carried out an operation that shook the British Empire. Utkarsh Mishra revisits the 'Kakori Conspiracy Case', a turning point in the armed struggle for independence.
Amid this unrest came the verdict of the Allahabad high court on June 12, 1975 that found Gandhi guilty over discrepancies in the electoral campaign, which led to the Emergency on the night of June 25.
Sources at the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narain Hospital indicated that a majority of the victims who sustained injuries in Saturday night stampede suffered lower limb injuries while others suffered from bone injuries.
'The time has come to have a relook at the Constitution as every document has a shelf life.'
The man, identified as Narain Singh, was overpowered by some people standing outside the Golden Temple.
Eight persons, including seven members of a family, were on Tuesday killed and eight others injured in an explosion in two houses in Auraiya district where fire-crackers were stored for Diwali festival.
The land purchased by the trust is located next to the Asharfi Bhawan.
Singh, considered close to RJD president Lalu Prasad and his family, was charged with raising slogans against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on February 13, during a heated exchange in the House.
The actor has been discharged from hospital.
The veteran actor was admitted in hospital two days ago.
The writer/filmmaker was admitted to the hospital yesterday evening around 7 pm where he breathed his last.
The writer/filmmaker was admitted to the hospital yesterday evening around 7 pm where he breathed his last.
"He is very, very critical. He was brought in an emergency condition to hospital at 5:15 pm. He had suffered cardiac arrest. He is in ICU and we are monitoring his condition hour-by-hour," Dr Ram Narain, Chief Operating Officer at Kokilaben Ambani Hospital in Mumbai's suburban Andheri, told PTI on Saturday night.
The National Award-winning actor had complained of acute cough and breathlessness.
The actor was admitted to a suburban hosptial a few days ago.
'Sonia did not visit this place once since she won. Who's to say they won't lose this one, too?'
Sixty-eight Rajya Sabha members, including nine Union ministers, are completing their tenure this year, triggering a race of sorts among leaders across political parties to eye a six-year term in the Upper House of Parliament.
On Tuesday, the government had agreed to refer it to the committee.
The mother of a journalist was set ablaze on Monday at Kothi police station in Baranbaki allegedly by two policemen after she refused to "bribe" them to free her husband.
After 47 years in electoral politics, Union minister Sharad Pawar on Monday became a member of the Rajya Sabha for the first time.
In the five years in politics Priyanka Gandhi has undeniably emerged as a thorn in the BJP flesh, notes Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay. It is time that this thorn is twisted a wee bit more when the elections have become far more uncertain than what it was when the Election Commission announced the poll schedule.
The Aam Aadmi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday trained guns at each other as they engaged in vociferous protests on separate issues in the national capital inviting police action.
The mother of a journalist, who had accused police officials of setting her ablaze at a police station after she refused to give bribe to free her husband, on Tuesday succumbed to injuries following which a magisterial inquiry was ordered into the incident.
Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party chief Vijay Goel and two other saffron party leaders filed their nomination papers for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls from Rajasthan, on the last date for filing papers.
The Bijnor police has junked a noted journalist's allegation of land grabbing in Nagina town near here against Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Kshetra trust general secretary and Champat Rai.
Music composer Aadesh Shrivastava who was battling cancer passed away post midnight on Friday. He was 51.
Seventy-year-old Bharatiya Janata Party leader Manik Saha on Wednesday took oath as chief minister of the sensitive border state of Tripura.
The Bahujan Samaj Party has resisted giving up the bungalow on 13-A, Mall Avenue, saying that it had been converted into a memorial to Kanshi Ram in 2011, and the BSP leader occupied just a small portion of it.
The opener has played a couple of Tests, six ODIs and 28 T20 Internationals since making her debut
Voters in Rae Bareli said they feel an emotional connection with the Gandhi family.
Several opposition MPs have petitioned President Droupadi Murmu for immediate action over social media trolling of Chief Justice of India Justice D Y Chandrachud while he was deliberating on a case related to the Governor's role in Maharashtra during the last government formation.
'He was God's good man and a beautiful human being beyond anything else.'
When Jaipur's Maharaja Madho Singh was invited to attend King Edward VII's coronation in 1902, he chartered a ship for Rs 15 lakh for the journey. He also carried 27,000 litres of Ganga jal on board. Prakash Bhandari recalls the maharaja's voyage to attend a British monarch's coronation on a day when Charles III will be crowned king at Westminster Abbey.
It was more out of compulsion that the 15-year-old slugged it out with boys in her bid to play cricket for India, a dream she shared with her father Sanjeev.
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