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West Bengal Governor takes temporary charge of Tripura
West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi was on Friday sworn in as the Governor of Tripura as additional charge till incumbent Governor Tathagata Roy remains on leave.
A Raj Bhavan official said President Ram Nath Kovind on June 6 gave…
‘Over 70 lakh Indian senior citizens abused last year’
Young India's population of senior citizens is also rapidly rising - and so is the number of cases of abuse inflicted on them mostly by people from whom there is an expectation of trust. Last year, around six per cent of India's elderly…
‘Digital India’ eliminated middlemen, empowered citizens: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday his Digital India flagship programme empowered citizens by eliminating middlemen' and promoted 4Es -- Education, Employment, Entrepreneurship and Empowerment.
"We launched Digital India with a…
Fourth suspect in Bukhari’s murder arrested in Srinagar
Within hours of releasing his picture for public help, police here on Friday arrested the fourth suspect in senior journalist Shujaat Bukhari's murder.
Police earlier in the day released the video of a bearded man who was apparently…
Telangana CM meets PM, seeks Rs 20,000 cr for Kaleshwaram
Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and urged him to provide Rs 20,000 crore for the Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project being built across the Godavari river.
During the…
Landslides halt train services in Assam hill section
Train services to Assam's Barak Valley, Mizoram and Tripura remained cut off on Friday due to fresh landslides in the Lumding-Badarpur hill section of Assam even as the Northeast Frontier Railway cancelled several trains.
NF Railway…
Killers of Bukhari will not be spared: Union Minister
Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Hansraj Gangaram Ahir on Friday condemned the brutal killing of renowned journalist Shujaat Bukhari outside his office in Srinagar and said none of the accused involved in the murder will be spared.…
Tripura Govt to give monthly Pension of Rs 10,000 to Journalists
The Tripura Government has enhanced the journalists pension from Rs 1,000 to Rs 10,000, a Minister here said.
"The cabinet increased the journalists' monthly pension from Rs 1,000 to Rs 10,000. The monthly pension of Rs 10,000 is second…
Hundreds attend Shujaat Bhukhari’s funeral
Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of senior journalist and Editor-in-Chief of English daily "Rising Kashmir" Shujat Bhukhari in his ancestral hometown of Kheeri in Baramulla district.
Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, state…
After three-month absence, Parrikar back in Goa
After three months of treatment in a US hospital for advanced pancreatic cancer, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar returned to the state on Thursday.
Parrikar visited the Mahalaxmi Temple in Panaji and resumed work at his office in the…