The US drone strike that killed Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri on the balcony of a safe house in downtown Kabul points to the use of secret Hellfire missiles by the CIA as there was no explosion and, according to American President Joe Biden, "no civilian casualties" either.
A convention of Muslims to be held under the aegis of the ruling Samajwadi Party in Lucknow on Saturday has snubbed veteran party leaders like Urban Development Minister Azam Khan and Health Minister Ahmad Hasan.
Amid shocking visuals of ward boys playing doctors in a hospital in Bulandshahar, the Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday "removed" the Chief Medical Superintendent and suspended a ward boy. "The ward boy, who was putting stitches, has been suspended and the CMS has been removed," said Health Minister Ahmad Hasan.
BSP leader Swami Prasad Maurya earlier alleged in the Assembly that an SP MP from Allahabad was involved in the incident and demanded a CBI inquiry into the matter.
Women candidates married to a man with two surviving wives have also been barred from applying.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist-led Left Front has decided to support the Congress-nominated independent candidate for the ensuing Rajya Sabha elections in the state.
An eight-month-old baby admitted to district hospital in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh died on Wednesday after a rickshaw-puller allegedly gave him an injection and police has registered a first information report against three persons in this connection.
Even though Mulayam Singh decided which ministers to drop and which ministers to lose their portfolios, the reshuffle is being projected as a reflection of Akhilesh Yadav's assertive self.
The West Bengal CM's media equation wasn't always this bad. In the run-up to the assembly elections of 2011, she was a clear favourite.
Villagers and social workers who witnessed the event felt that it was aimed at raising funds for the Clinton Foundation
At least 20 passengers were on Monday feared killed as the Gorakhdham Express rammed into a stationary freight train in the district. The incident occurred on Monday morning when the express train came on the same track as the freight train near Chureb Railway Station, District Magistrate Bharat Lal said.
Fifty-six days after she was summarily suspended by the Akhilesh Yadav government, Durga Shakti Nagpal, the young upright IAS sub-divisional magistrate of Greater Noida, was finally reinstated on Sunday.
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