India

Hyderabad, Mar 5: Within days of proposing a "non-Congress, non-BJP front, Telangana Chief Minister and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K Chandrasekhar Rao has received support from several political parties including the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress. Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren and Hyderabad lawmaker Asaduddin Owaisi were the other leaders who have extended their

Chandigarh, Mar 5: The Haryana government will soon enact a stringent law to punish those found guilty of abandoning their cows, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said here on Sunday. Khattar said his government had already enacted the 'Gauvansh Sanrakshan and Gausamvardhan' Act to protect cows. "Also, the government has tagged cattle in gaushalas. Similarly, tagging of cattle kept by people in

Mar 5: After the ouster of Manik Sarkar-led Left Front government in Tripura Assembly elections, former Union minister and veteran Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has said that the demise of Left will be a disaster for India. Speaking at a gathering, the Congress leader pointed on the need of the Left being strong in India. He said though the Left and the Congress are rivals, it remains a fact that

Agartala, Mar 4: Outgoing Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar submitted his resignation to Governor Tathagata Roy here on Sunday, a day after the CPM-led Left Front was dethroned by the BJP-IPFT coalition after nearly 25 years in power. The governor advised Sarkar, who was chief minister since 1998, to continue until the new chief minister takes oath. Coming out of the Raj Bhavan, Sarkar told

Mumbai, Mar 4: Karti Chidambaram, arrested in the INX Media case, was on Sunday brought to the Byculla prison here to be confronted with Indrani Mukerjea as part of the CBI's probe into the matter, a senior official said. Indrani, a former Director of INX Media (P) Ltd, is lodged in the jail in connection with the Sheena Bora murder case. A six-member team of the Central Bureau of Investigation

Mumbai, Mar 4: Diamond trader Nirav Modi, who is at the centre of the Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam running over Rs. 11,000 crore, has alleged that he was right in being concerned about the "unfairness of process", going by the way a woman employee of his firm was arrested. Mr Modi, against whom a special court on Saturday issued a non-bailable warrant (NBW), wrote two letters to the Enforcement

Lucknow, Mar 4: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday credited the BJP's "historic" performance in Northeastern states to "development-oriented" policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and "organisational skills" of Amit Shah and said the day is not far when one party will be in power right from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. The chief minister was addressing a press conference at the

Shillong, Mar 4: After emerging as the single largest party in Meghalaya, the Congress staked a claim to form a government in the state at a meeting with Governor Ganga Prasad, officials and party leaders said today. A delegation of three Congress leaders -- Kamal Nath, Ahmed Patel and CP Joshi -- met the governor at 7 pm last night, they said. "We met the Governor and sought his invitation to the

Kolkata, Mar 4: The trouncing of the CPI(M) in the Tripura Assembly elections has forced it to rethink strategies and increased the clamour within the party for an "adjustment" with the Congress, ahead of a crucial party meet next month. The heavy defeat in Tripura has raised several questions within the CPI(M) on adopting the "right strategy" for survival, party leaders said. The BJP-IPFT combine

Mumbai/New Delhi, Mar 4: An official of Punjab National Bank received gold and diamond jewellery from a billionaire jeweller accused of being involved in a $2 billion bank fraud, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)told a court on Saturday. The state lender in January uncovered the alleged fraud in which several bank officials were suspected of colluding with jeweller Nirav Modi and his uncle