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Delhi government orders probe into hotel | New Delhi, Feb 12 (TIWN / IANS) Minister for Home and Urban Development for the national capital Satyendar Jain on Tuesday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the tragic blaze in a central Delhi hotel which devoured 17 lives, including that of a child. | 12-Feb-2019 |
Vadra's emotional FB post ahead of ED de | Jaipur, Feb 12 (TIWN / IANS) Ahead of deposing in front of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday, Congress President Rahul Gandhi's brother-in-law Robert Vadra wrote an emotional Facebook post expressing his firm belief in God which will help him tide over tough times ahead. | 12-Feb-2019 |
CBI's Nageswara Rao held guilty of conte | New Delhi, Feb 12 (TIWN / IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday held former acting- chief of CBI M. Nageswara Rao guilty of contempt of court, sentencing him till the rising of the apex court for the day and fined him Rs 1 lakh for transferring an agency officer probing the Muzaffarpur shelter home case despite the court's embargo against the transfer of then Additional Director A.K. Sharma who was heading the investigation team. | 12-Feb-2019 |
Triple talaq bill unlikely to get RS nod | New Delhi, Feb 11 (TIWN / IANS) The Narendra Modi government is keen to get parliamentary approval for the triple talaq bill but there is no certainty that it will clear the Rajya Sabha hurdle in the remaining two days of the budget session and the measure may again be implemented through an ordinance. | 11-Feb-2019 |
Priyanka wows crowds in Lucknow along wi | Lucknow, Feb 11 (TIWN / IANS) Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was cheered by thousands as she rode in an open truck here on Monday along with her brother and Congress President Rahul Gandhi on her first visit to Uttar Pradesh after becoming the Congress General Secretary East UP ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. | 11-Feb-2019 |
Robert Vadra reaches Jaipur for ED quest | Jaipur, Feb 11 (TIWN / IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi's brother-in-law Robert Vadra arrived here on Monday for questioning by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with an alleged land scam case involving 275 acres of land in the Kolayat sub-division of Bikaner district. | 11-Feb-2019 |
CBI grills Kumar, Ghosh in chit fund sca | Shillong, Feb 11 (TIWN / IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday again questioned Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar and former Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Kunal Ghosh in connection with the Saradha and Rose Valley chit fund scams. | 11-Feb-2019 |
Woman gang-raped by 12 near Ludhiana, po | Chandigarh, Feb 11 (TIWN / IANS) The Punjab Police on Monday conducted raids at various places in Ludhiana district after a young woman alleged she was gang-raped by 12 men at a farmhouse near Jagraon town after she and her male friend were attacked and abducted. | 11-Feb-2019 |
Modi serves Akshaya Patra's 3 billionth | Vrindavan, Feb 11 (TIWN / IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday served food to school children here, including the third billionth meal by the Akshaya Patra Foundation at the Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir campus. | 11-Feb-2019 |
Priyanka begins roadshow in Lucknow with | Lucknow, Feb 11 (TIWN / IANS) Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra launched her roadshow here on Monday on her first visit after becoming the General Secretary in charge of East Uttar Pradesh along with her brother and Congress President Rahul Gandhi. | 11-Feb-2019 |
Priyanka's entry won't impact LS polls o | Patna, Feb 11 (TIWN / IANS) Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi on Sunday said Priyanka Gandhi's entry into politics will not have any impact on the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. | 11-Feb-2019 |
Fire at Kolkata's Burrabazar area | Kolkata, Feb 11 (TIWN / IANS) A fire broke out at the godown of a clothing store in the commercial hub of Burrabazar area, here on Sunday. There was, however, no report of any casualty. | 10-Feb-2019 |
CBI grills Kolkata Police chief for seco | Guwahati, Feb 10 (TIWN): Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar and former TMC MP Kunal Ghosh are being questioned at the CBI office here in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam. | 10-Feb-2019 |
Now cut-out war between BJP, Trinamool i | Kolkata, Feb 10 (TIWN / IANS) Below a large cut-out of BJP President Amit Shah in Kolkata's northern suburb Baranagar lies a board reading "courtesy Baranagar Trinamool Congress". At first glance, the scenario may seem a welcome exception in a state where clashes between the BJP-ruled Centre and the Trinamool Congress-run state government are reaching a flashpoint ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. | 10-Feb-2019 |
Bengal celebrates Saraswati Puja | Kolkata, Feb 10 (TIWN / IANS) Saraswati Puja was celebrated in West Bengal on Sunday with traditional fervour. | 10-Feb-2019 |
Modi launches developmental projects in | Guntur (Andhra Pradesh), Feb 10 (TIWN / IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched development projects here amid protests staged across Andhra Pradesh against his visit to the state. | 10-Feb-2019 |
PM Modi to unveil development projects i | Hubballi-Dharwad (Karnataka), Feb 10 (TIWN / IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unveil development projects in Karnataka's twin cities of Hubballi and Dharwad northwest region and address a BJP convention on Sunday, a party official said. | 09-Feb-2019 |
CPI-M slams MP government for invoking N | New Delhi, Feb 10 (TIWN / IANS) The CPI-M on Saturday slammed the Kamal Nath-led Congress government in Madhya Pradesh for invoking the stringent National Security Act (NSA) in cases of alleged cow slaughter, terming it as an attempt to "appease the communal forces". | 09-Feb-2019 |
Trinamool Congress MLA shot dead, party | Kolkata, Feb 9 (TIWN / IANS) Trinamool Congress legislator Satyajit Biwsas was shot dead by unidentified assailants at a Saraswati Puja programme in West Bengals Nadia district on Saturday evening, police said. | 09-Feb-2019 |
Robert Vadra appears before ED for third | New Delhi, Feb 9 (TIWN / IANS) Robert Vadra, the brother-in-law of Congress President Rahul Gandhi, on Saturday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) here for a third round of questioning in a money laundering case. | 09-Feb-2019 |
CBI begins to grill Kolkata Police chief | Shillong, Feb 9 (TIWN / IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday began questioning Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in connection with the chit fund case, an official said. | 09-Feb-2019 |
Manipur women vendors on strike protesti | Imphal, Feb 9 (IANS) Thousands of women vendors who exclusively run the three main markets here staged a 12-hour sit-in protest on Saturday demanding a written assurance from the state government that the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, will not affect Manipur and other northeastern states. | 09-Feb-2019 |
At least one killed, several injured as | Madrid, Feb 9 (TIWN / IANS) At least one person died and 95 injured following the collision of two trains between Manresa and Sant Vincenc de Castellet in east Spain, the state-owned railway infrastructure manager ADIF said in an official statement. | 09-Feb-2019 |
Modi accuses Mamata of protecting scamst | Jalpaiguri/Kolkata, Feb 9 (TIWN / IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee exchanged a flurry of verbal punches on Friday, as he accused her of trying to save those involved in ponzi scheme scams, alleging that opposition parties were coming together to protect fraudsters, touts and criminals. Banerjee hit back by calling him the "master of corruption". | 08-Feb-2019 |
'Modi go back' protest begins in Andhra | Amaravti, Feb 8 (IANS) 'Modi go back' slogans rent the air in a Tirupati university on Friday, two days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address a rally at Guntur. | 08-Feb-2019 |
Jaitley slams Congress over Triple Talaq | New Delhi, Feb 8 (TIWN / IANS) Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday slammed the Congress for its promise to withdraw the Triple Talaq Bill, saying that 32 years after legislatively overturning the Supreme Court's Shah Bano judgment, the party has taken another step to drive Muslim women to live a life which is an "antithesis of human existence". | 08-Feb-2019 |
2 killed, 10 missing as J&K gets heavies | Srinagar, Feb 8 (TIWN / IANS) Two persons were killed, while 10 others went missing and hundreds remained stranded on Friday due to the heaviest spell of snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir so far. | 08-Feb-2019 |
Day 2: ED confronts Vadra with mails exc | New Delhi, Feb 8 (TIWN / IANS) Robert Vadra, brother-in-law of Congress President Rahul Gandhi, was grilled for over nine hours by the Enforcement Directorate as he appeared for the second round of questioning on Thursday, and also confronted him with his mails exchanged with a relative of absconding arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari, sources said. | 07-Feb-2019 |
Centre plans to strip off medals of IPS | New Delhi, Feb 7 (TIWN): Centre is reportedly planning to strip medals and honous conferred on the IPS officers who participated in the three-day-long ‘dharna’ or ‘sit-in protest’ with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, which she ended on Tuesday. The Union government has also decided to bar the said officers from central deputation, sources said. | 07-Feb-2019 |
SC asks EC to consider allotting common | New Delhi, Feb 7 (TIWN / IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Election Commission (EC) to consider allotting a common symbol -- pressure cooker -- to the T.T.V. Dinakaran-led AMMK for contesting the ensuing Lok Sabha elections, and by-elections to 20 assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu. | 07-Feb-2019 |
10 Maoists killed in Chhattisgarh | Bijapur, Feb 7 (TIWN / IANS) Ten Maoists were killed on Thursday in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur in a gun battle with the security forces, police said. | 07-Feb-2019 |
SC verdict on powers of Delhi government | New Delhi, Feb 7 (TIWN / IANS) The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce its verdict on a batch of petitions challenging a Delhi High Court order that the Lt. Governor is the administrator of the national capital. | 07-Feb-2019 |
Maharashtra finally accepts 'virginity t | Mumbai, Feb 7 (TIWN): The Maharashtra government will soon make forcing a woman to undergo virginity test a punishable offence, it said Wednesday. Certain communities in the state follow a custom whereby a newly-wed woman has to prove that she was virgin prior to the marriage. | 07-Feb-2019 |
Cabinet approves Calcutta High Court's c | New Delhi, Feb 7 (TIWN / IANS) The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the setting up of a circuit bench of the Calcutta High Court at West Bengal's Jalpaiguri. | 06-Feb-2019 |
Priyanka drops Vadra at ED office, makes | New Delhi, Feb 6 (TIWN / IANS) Priyanka Gandhi on Wednesday appeared to be making a political statement of strongly backing her controversial husband Robert Vadra when she dropped him at the Enforcement Directorate office when he came to face questioning in connection with a money laundering case filed against him. | 06-Feb-2019 |
Andhra Police transfers NRI's murder cas | Vijayawada, Feb 6 (TIWN / IANS) The Andhra Pradesh Police on Wednesday transferred the murder case of Florida-based NRI businessman Chigurupati Jayaram to Telangana. | 06-Feb-2019 |
Saradha and Rose Valley scams: The lowdo | Kolkata, Feb 6 (TIWN / IANS) The latest stand-off between the Narendra Modi-led central government and West Bengals Mamata Banerjee government has again brought the two multi-crore ponzi scams - Saradha and Rose Valley - into the mainstream of the political discourse. | 06-Feb-2019 |
Mamata calls SC verdict moral victory | Kolkata, Feb 5 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday welcomed the Supreme Court verdict in a CBI plea against Kolkata Police chief Rajeev Kumar and described the order to the CBI not to arrest him a "moral victory". | 05-Feb-2019 |
Centre tells Bengal government to take d | New Delhi, Feb 5 (TIWN / IANS) Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar faces fresh problems with the Centre on Tuesday asking the West Bengal government to initiate disciplinary proceedings against him for participating in a street protest with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, an action that comes on top of an unprecedented stand-off between the two governments for the last three days. | 05-Feb-2019 |
Centre, Bengal stand-off: Mamata's sit-i | Kolkata/New Delhi, Feb 5 (TIWN / IANS) The unprecedented stand-off between the Narendra Modi government and the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal stretched to the second day on Monday as the feisty Chief Minister continued her sit-in, emboldened by the support from opposition parties from various states, some of them even joining her on the dais. | 04-Feb-2019 |
'Didi' skips dinner, stays awake all nig | Kolkata, Feb 4 (TIWN / IANS) On the makeshift stage hung a large "Save India" banner. Thousands of Trinamool Congress activists, curious onlookers and a large posse of media persons thronged the dais on the side of the bustling road where West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee paced up and down, shouting instructions. | 04-Feb-2019 |
Yes, BJP used me in 2014: Anna Hazare | Ahmednagar (Maharashtra), Feb 4 (TIWN / IANS) Fasting activist Kisan Babural alias Anna Hazare said on Monday that he was "used by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)" to win the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. | 04-Feb-2019 |
Jolt for BJP : SC declines urgent hearin | New Delhi, Feb 4 (TIWN / IANS) The Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday a CBI plea against Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar who is accused of allegedly destroying evidence related to the Saradha chit fund scam. | 04-Feb-2019 |
New CBI chief Shukla takes charge | New Delhi, Feb 4 (TIWN / IANS) New CBI chief Rishi Kumar Shukla took charge on Monday, a day after the agency's officials clashed with Kolkata Police over the questioning of Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar that has led to a face-off between the West Bengal and central governments. | 04-Feb-2019 |
Mamata continues sit-in, SP leader joins | Kolkata, Feb 4 (TIWN / IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday continued her sit-in protest here over the CBI's attempt to question the Kolkata Police chief in connection with a ponzi scheme scam, as Samajwadi Party leader Kiranmoy Nanda joined her. | 04-Feb-2019 |
Unprecedented centre-state confrontation | Kolkata, Feb 4 (TIWN / IANS) In a virtual no-holds-barred clash between the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Central and West Bengal governments, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee began a sit-in here on Sunday accusing the Centre of attempting a coup to destabilise the state after an ugly face-off between the CBI and the state police over the federal probe agency's bid to grill city police commissioner Rajeev Kumar in connection with the Ponzi scheme scam case. | 03-Feb-2019 |
Mamata resorts to sit-in after CBI-polic | Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister on Sunday alleged that National Security Advisor Ajit Doval was giving instructions to the CBI at the behest of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah as she began a sit-in at the city centre "in a bid to save the federal structure of the country". | 03-Feb-2019 |
Pendency, lack of judges have made judic | Amaravati, Feb 3 (TIWN / IANS) Voicing concern over the pendency of cases and vacancies of judges, Chief Justice of India (CJI) Justice Ranjan Gogoi on Sunday said the twin factors have made the judicial dispensation system extremely vulnerable. | 03-Feb-2019 |
BJP launches campaign to seek people's v | New Delhi, Feb 3 (TIWN / IANS) The BJP on Sunday launched a campaign to seek suggestions and voters' expectations for a "new India" from 10 crore families across the country before giving a final shape to its election manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls. | 03-Feb-2019 |
Manipuri filmmaker to return Padma Shri | New Delhi, Feb 3 (TIWN / IANS) Fifteen times National Award winner Manipuri filmmaker Aribam Syam Sharma on Sunday announced that he would return the Padma Shri -- the fourth highest civilian award in India -- to protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016. | 03-Feb-2019 |