Former Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari was on Thursday questioned for over four hours by income tax authorities in connection with the probe into alleged dubious investments in Purti Group of companies. Gadkari, who was earlier slated to appear on Friday, was quizzed by Geetha Ravichandran, director of I-T (Investigations) at the I-T office in central Nagpur's Sadar area, sources said.
Farmers gathered at several national highways, key roads and some railway tracks in Punjab and Haryana on Friday morning as part of their nationwide protest against the Centre's new agri laws.
On the concluding day of her visit to her mother and Congress president Sonia Gandhi's Lok Sabha constituency Rae Bareli, Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday met party workers and discussed ways and means to strengthen the organisation. She met party workers of Sadar and Uchahar blocks and discussed at length ways and means to revamp the party in Rae Bareli.
Seven persons have died after drinking illicit liquor at Payradanga village in Hooghly district, the police said.
"A total of 48 people of Bangaon village were operated upon for removal of cataract at Saharsa Sadar hospital. At least 15 people have lost their vision due to infection," a district health official said.
The incident came to light on Thursday after few students alleged that they were not allowed to enter the campus of Rishabh Academy Co-Educational English Medium School because they did not have proper haircuts.
Around 30 per cent votes were cast in the first three hours of polling in Nagaland, where election is on for its 60-member House on Saturday amidst unprecedented security.
Guidelines have been issued by the Commission for safe conduct of the electoral exercise in the midst of the raging COVID-19 pandemic. These guidelines include lowering the maximum number of voters for a polling booth from 1,600 to 1,000, staggering the polling hours and extending postal ballot facility to those above 80.
Two incidents of rape were reported in Bihar on Sunday where a mentally ill woman was allegedly raped by an official of a government hospital, while a minor girl was gangraped by two youths, the police said.
The incident comes close on the heels of some slaughter houses being sealed in Uttar Pradesh after the Bharatiya Janata Party government led by Yogi Adityanath was sworn in.
Three children died of suspected encephalitis and as many others taken ill in Bihar's Aurangabad district in the past one week, a government doctor said on Thursday.
General secretary and spokesperson of Shiv Sena Gurugram wing Ritu Raj said that they had served notices to every meat and chicken shop.
Suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba bomb expert Abdul Karim Tunda and three others, who were accused of helping Pakistani and Bangladeshi terrorists sneak into India in 1997 to carry out terror strikes, were on Saturday discharged in the case by a Delhi court which cited lack of evidence.
West Bengal had witnessed violence and arson from December 13 to 17 during protests against the new citizenship law.
The court will hear MLAs' pleas on Wednesday.
A 12-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by a domestic help of the Samajwadi Party MLA from Sadar, and his associates at the legislator's house in Balrampur, Uttar Pradesh, police said.
An FIR was on Saturday lodged against Congress candidate Louis Khurshid, wife of Law Minister Salman Khurshid, for violation of the model code of conduct. The case has been lodged against the Congress candidate at Sadar police station for violation of model code of conduct, Additional District Magistrate Rajkeshwar Singh said. Initially, Louis was slapped with a notice for violation of the model code of conduct.
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Bihar State Women Commission has begun its probe into the alleged gang-rape of a minor girl in Madhepura district. The victim delivered a baby girl at Sadar hospital and became an unwed minor mother, officials on Friday said.
It took nearly nine months for the Bihar police to file an FIR against four accused for the allegedly gang-rape of a minor girl in Madhepura district.
Ruling Biju Janata Dal memver of Legislative Assembly Subarna Nayak was arrested on Monday for allegedly slapping and misbehaving with a woman homeguard.
Police, however, said a link between the social media post and the assault has not been established yet.
Exhorting the electorate to vote for Congress to get rid of fear and backwardness, Congress star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi on Thursday asked people to exercise their franchise for a new trend in politics which is dedicated to people.
Almost all the babies were born underweight and suffered from broncho pneumonia and were brought from interior areas of Malda district, the officials said.
Three more infants died at the Malda Sadar Hospital in West Bengal on Wednesday after being referred in critical condition from other district hospitals, taking the death toll in recent spell to 31.
Hospital sources said the infants were born underweight and with respiratory problems. The deaths took place on Monday night.
Sixty-eight days of economic blockade since July 31 this year has crippled the common man in the landlocked bordering state of Manipur, even as the state government and the Centre failed to persuade agitators to withdraw the blockade.
In a tragic incident Mahesh Thapa, a 27-year-old footballer who plays in the Bengal football league, died moments after a collision with the goalkeeper during a match in Jalpaiguri.
The youth, who sustained bullet injuries during a clash between supporters of a defeated Samajwadi Party candidate and the police, died at a hospital in Agra, the police said in Firozabad on Tuesday.
Hospital superintendent Himadri Kumar Ari said two newborns died on Monday night, three on Tuesday and another three on Wednesday morning.
Three more babies died at the Malda District Sadar Hospital on Friday, increasing the toll of infant deaths there to 12 since Tuesday. Three children -- a one a half month old, a two-day old and another 28-day old -- died on Friday. The three children died as they were underweight and suffering from broncho-pneumonia and other serious ailments.Till Thursday, nine babies who were suffering from broncho-pneumonia and low birth weight had died since 12 noon Tuesday.
Heavy police force was deployed at the Congress office in view of the march and roads leading to it were barricaded. However, many Congress workers reached the spot and started a public meeting.
Jailed former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda on Tuesday refused to eat till demands of prisoners for proper food were looked into and filed a police complaint that he suffered fracture in his hand when he was assaulted in the high-security jail in Ranchi.
An eight-year-old girl was killed and 12 people were injured, five seriously, in a bomb blast at Kazirganj Bazar in Bihar's Nawada district on Tuesday.
Altogether 40 school students fell ill after eating a midday meal with some of them claiming that there was a dead lizard in the food cooked for them in Bihar's Sheohar district in Bihar, an official said
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A first information report was registered on Wednesday against Samajwadi Party leader Mohammad Azam Khan on the charge of sedition for his controversial comments on Kashmir following a court order.
66 students and a head cook on Thursday fell ill after eating mid-day meal at a primary school in Hajipur in Bihar's Vishali district.
Close on the heels of the murder of two engineers in Darbhanga district, another engineer was found dead with injury marks on his body in Vaishali district on Tuesday.
The toll in the train collision at Sainthia station in Birbhum district rose to 66 on Tuesday with three injured passengers of the Vananchal Express succumbing to injuries at the Burdwan Medical College Hospital.
