Amit Shah, Akhilesh Yadav clash in Lok Sabha. NEW DELHI: A heated debate took place between home minister Amit Shah and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday as a special Parliament session was held to discuss Constitution Bill, Union Territories Laws and the Delimitation Bill.Speaking in the Lok Sabha, Yadav slammed the Centre…
Kolkata: Bengal governor RN Ravi chose a Poila Baisakh programme in Lok Bhavan on Wednesday to urge the state’s youth to be a “part of change” and underline Bengal’s “decline” over the years, prompting CM Mamata Banerjee to hit back with a “laatsaheb” barb.“Our share in the national capital has gone down from 10.6% to…
MUMBAI: Maharashtra minister and BJP leader on Thursday said that “corporate jihad” is growing in Maharashtra, and that prioritizing Hindus in hiring was the “need of the hour” to thwart any “jihadist activities,” according to news agency PTIHis remarks came in reference to the claims of religious conversion and sexual harassment at a BPO unit…
NEW DELHI: India’s bats, which are key to pollination, pest control and forest regeneration, remain widely understudied and increasingly threatened by human-driven change, according to a national assessment taking place after two decades.The report, State of India’s Bats (2024-2025), by Nature Conservation Foundation, Bat Conservation International, WWF and Centre For Wildlife Studies, shares insights of…
A peak election season in TN gets under way sans stage meetings on streets CHENNAI: An old two-storey house painted yellow reveals a plaque with the name Kavignar Tamildasan at Pillayar Koil Street in Triplicane. Inside the house, a man clad in a white shirt and trousers is busy taking notes for a campaign speech…
Patna: BJP workers erupted in celebration outside the party office on Birchand Patel Path here on Wednesday as Samrat Chaudhary took oath as Bihar’s chief minister (CM). Party workers distributed sweets on the office premises amid drumbeats and chants of ‘Jai Shri Ram’. BJP state president Sanjay Saraogi welcomed the CM. However, contrast, the JD(U)…
Jamshedpur: Six people sustained injuries when a trailer rammed a motorbike and a bus in Seraikela-Kharsawan district on Wednesday. The incident took place near Bhadudih village under Chandil police station limits.The trailer, which was travelling towards Jamshedpur from Ranchi, first hit a motorbike which was headed to Jamshedpur from Ichagarh. Three people, who were riding…
Daltonganj: Suspected measles cases have surfaced in two villages — Baida and Bhandar — in Palamu district, civil surgeon Dr Anil Kumar Srivastava said on Wednesday.“In Baida, there are seven suspected cases out of whom one has tested positive. In Bhandar, there are six suspected cases but their confirmatory test reports are awaited,” he said….
NEW DELHI: In a bid to tackle growing obesity in India, the ICMR has launched a nationwide exercise to find out what actually works to reduce weight and related health risks, at a time when nearly one in four adults in the country is overweight or obese.The scale of the problem is becoming hard to…
Kolkata: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman‘s distribution of weaver cards to handloom weavers in Bengal on Wednesday drew a model code violation complaint from Trinamool and a sharp rebuke from CM Mamata Banerjee.Sitharaman visited weavers in Serampore’s Ashram Para before travelling to Kalna in East Burdwan, where she distributed the cards — identity documents issued…
