The insurgency-riddled Bastar region, which is made up of seven districts, is heading for a cliffhanger between the ruling BJP and the main opposition Congress as assembly polling begins in Chhattisgarh on Monday. The Congress had bagged eight seats in the last assembly polls out of 12 in Bastar in 2013 but the BJP has […]
It was a foggy morning in the national capital on Thursday with the minimum temperature recorded at 10.5 degrees Celsius and air quality deteriorating to “severe” level a day after Diwali. The air-quality across the National Capital Region has worsened, according to System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR) and the minimum […]
A partial cloud cover marginally improved minimum temperatures across the Kashmir Valley on Thursday as the Ladakh region continued to reel under the first cold wave of the season, Met said. “The cold wave conditions are likely to continue for another three days. We are expecting another spell of moderate rain and snow from November […]
An unidentified man committed suicide by jumping from a Metro station in Hyderabad on Thursday, police said. The incident occurred at Ameerpet Metro Station where he jumped down from the first floor of the station. He sustained head injuries and died on the spot, according to the police. This is the second such incident at […]
On the second anniversary of demonetisation, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday slammed the central government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi for cheating the nation with the note-ban “scam”. Calling it a dark day, Banerjee tweeted: “The government cheated our nation with this big #Demonetisation scam. It ruined the economy and the lives […]
Attacking the Narendra Modi government for the 2016 demonetisation, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday urged the Centre to restore certainty and visibility in its economic policies. The former Finance Minister also asked the current NDA regime not to indulge in any further unorthodox, short-term economic measures that could cause any more uncertainty in […]
A Gujarat court on Thursday declared fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi as a “proclaimed absconder” in a customs duty evasion case filed in March and ordered him to appear in person on November 15. In a public notification issued earlier in the day in newspapers, and also sent to government and police departments, Nirav Modi was […]
By Sanjeev Sethi Faith, they say is not as contagious as panic. It is not easy to believe in someone else’s system easily these days. Data proves that the number of disbelievers in every religion has increased over the last couple of decades. A very valid contradiction to this aspect is observed in the […]
By Nivedita Singh New Delhi On a scorching summer day, the likes of which are plentiful in Delhi, what one needs most is a glass of water to quench one’s thirst, more so for those who toil in the unbearable heat to earn their livelihoods. The hundreds of civic workers, rickshaw pullers, street vendors and […]
Care One Care All Group (COCAG) is a not for profit charitable organisation operating since 2014 in Australia. This is a charity initiative helping a large number of destitute, abandoned elders, orphan kids, financially stricken families and individuals, homeless, mentally challenged and disabled persons in Australia and India. Since 2014, COCAG members have carried out many […]