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K'taka Council chairman says 'inevitably | Bengaluru, Dec 17 (TIWN) A day after Karnataka Legislative Council witnessed uproarious scenes, its Chairman, K. Pratapchandra Shetty in his report to Governor Vajubhai R. Vala on Wednesday said that "inevitably" he had to adjourn the house sine die owing to the bedlam caused by the members. | 17-Dec-2020 |
Andhra to crackdown on junior colleges s | Amaravati, Dec 17 (TIWN) The Andhra Pradesh government set the ball rolling on Wednesday to crackdown on corporate intermediate colleges for criminally sitting on the certificates of the students, demanding fees. | 17-Dec-2020 |
SC seeks Centre, states' response on ple | New Delhi, Dec 16 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Centre and all state governments on a petition seeking direction to check unregulated and unhindered developments, including illegal layouts, which adversely affects the environment and multiples into a complex set of problems in cities, resulting in frequent floods, traffic chaos, drainage and electricity supply related issues. | 16-Dec-2020 |
Odisha CM writes to PM for PMAY houses f | Bhubaneswar, Dec 16 (TIWN) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to sanction houses to the cyclone Fani affected families in the state under the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana- Gramin (PMAY-G). | 16-Dec-2020 |
It was time when neighbours feared viola | New Delhi, Dec 16 (TIWN) Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday paid tributes to the fallen soldiers on the 50th anniversary of the 1971 India-Pakistan War highlighting the role of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi saying there was a time when the neighbouring countries accepted the mattle of the Indian Prime Minister and were afraid of violating the border of the nation. | 16-Dec-2020 |
Muslim voters are not your 'jagir': Owai | Hyderabad, Dec 16 (TIWN) A day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged that the BJP is giving money to a party from Hyderabad to divide votes in the ensuing Assembly elections, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi hit back at her on Wednesday saying the Muslim voters were not her "jagir (property)". | 16-Dec-2020 |
After YSRCP, now BJP engages with social | Amaravati, Dec 16 (TIWN) Taking a leaf out of the Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP), the Andhra Pradesh wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has also conducted a conference with its social media 'warriors' in Vijayawada recently to engage with them. | 16-Dec-2020 |
AAP will contest UP Assembly polls in 20 | New Delhi, Dec 15 (TIWN) After forming the government in the national capital thrice and emerging as the main opposition party in Punjab, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday announced it will contest the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election in 2022. | 15-Dec-2020 |
BJP to EC: Bring model code, central for | New Delhi, Dec 15 (TIWN) Just days ahead of Union Home Minister Amit Shah's repeat visit to poll-bound west Bengal, the BJP has clearly upped the ante while urging the EC to invoke Section 15 of the Representation of the People's Act. | 15-Dec-2020 |
BJP President JP Nadda Tests Positive fo | Kolkata / New Delhi, Dec 14 (TIWN): BJP national president JP Nadda has tested positive for Covid-19. Announcing the diagnosis on Twitter, Nadda said he is in home isolation as per coronavirus protocol and is in good health. | 14-Dec-2020 |
NDA committed to serve people of Northea | Guwahati, Dec 14 (TIWN) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that the NDA is committed to serving the people of the northeast region of India. Greeting the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party and other allies on the success of the elections to the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) in Assam, Modi in a tweet said: "NDA is committed to serving the people of the Northeast." | 13-Dec-2020 |
Must recognise Indira Gandhi's role in g | Dhaka, Dec 14 (TIWN) Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr A.K. Abdul Momen on Sunday said the "month of victory" will come up in a big way at the coming India-Bangladesh Prime Ministers Summit because it is also a victory for India as they supported Bangladesh to achieve victory in 1971 and that "we must acknowledge the contributions of the then Indian Prime Minister (Indira Gandhi)". | 14-Dec-2020 |
TRP Scam : Mumbai Police Arrested Republ | Mumbai, Dec 13 (TIWN) In another swoop, the Mumbai Police arrested the CEO of Republic TV Vikas Khanchandani in connection with the ongoing probe into the TRP scam case, officials said here on Sunday. | 14-Dec-2020 |
Raj farmers' group, led by NDA ally RLP | Jaipur, Dec 14 (IANS) The Haryana police on Saturday stopped Nagaur MP and Rashtriya Loktantrik Party convenor Hanuman Beniwal on its borders when he was on his way to Delhi along with a convoy of farmers from Rajasthan to stand in solidarity with the protesting farmers opposing the farm bills passed by the central government. | 14-Dec-2020 |
K'taka Cong dares BJP to ban cow slaught | Bengaluru, Dec 14 (TIWN) Karnataka Congress leaders on Friday dared the ruling BJP leaders to prove their "real commitment" of protecting cows by taking steps to ban beef export completely in the country, instead of adopting dual stands about cow slaughter ban in select states. | 14-Dec-2020 |
Govt official cites 5 benefits of contra | New Delhi, Dec 11 (TIWN) Contract farming has been going on in the country for a long time now, both in formal as well as informal manner, but the Central government has given it a legal basis through a law. A senior government official said that the agreement under the new law will define the quality, grade, price and conditions of services, and therefore will not compromise farmers' interests. | 12-Dec-2020 |
Voting begins for Goa zilla panchayat po | Panaji, Dec 12 (TIWN) Voting for the zilla panchayat (ZP) polls in Goa, which has 203 candidates in the fray contesting from 48 constituencies, began on Saturday morning. | 12-Dec-2020 |
K'taka: No headway in talks between tran | Bengaluru, Dec 12 (TIWN) The talks between the transport union leaders and Karnataka government held here failed to end the standoff between the two parties as transport employees continued their strike for a second day on Friday pressing for various demands resulting in suspension of services. | 12-Dec-2020 |
Indigo crew seen pulling luggage through | Chandigarh, Dec 11 (TIWN) An Indigo crew was seen pulling their luggage on a narrow road between farm fields in Punjab while heading to the international airport near Chandigarh on Bharat Bandh day owing to closure of road links, as per a viral video. | 11-Dec-2020 |
BJP, Trinamool lock horns ahead of cruci | Kolkata, Dec 11 (TIWN) It all started a decade ago. When the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress had toppled the 34-year-old Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) led Left Front government in West Bengal, they had coined a slogan, "Badla Noi, Badal Chai" (we don't want revenge, we want change). | 11-Dec-2020 |
Meghalaya CM tests positive for Covid-19 | Shillong, Dec 11 (TIWN) Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma on Friday informed that he has tested positive for Covid-19 and asked all those who came in contact with him to get themselves tested. | 11-Dec-2020 |
For every bribe taker, there is bribe gi | New Delhi, Dec 11 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Friday it cannot direct the Parliament to pass a law to award life term imprisonment in graft cases, as for every bribe taker, there was always a bribe giver. | 11-Dec-2020 |
Farmers' protest continues for 16th day, | New Delhi, Dec 11 (TIWN) The farmers' protest at several interstate borders of Delhi with Haryana and Uttar Pradesh continued for the 16th day on Friday as their leaders strategised for the proposed intensification of their agitation across the country. Tens of thousands of more protesters from Punjab and Haryana were set to join them on the Singhu border by Saturday evening. | 11-Dec-2020 |
BJP calls their workers for doing 'nauta | Kolkata, Dec 10 (TIWN) In reply to the alleged attacks on Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) President J.P. Nadda's convoy, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday that it was nothing but a "dramaa" staged by the saffron party to attract political attention before the Assembly elections in the state scheduled next year. | 10-Dec-2020 |
Have done no wrong, so why should I resi | Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 10 (TIWN) In a point to point rebuttal of all allegations levelled by the Congress and the BJP, Kerala Assembly Speaker P.Sreeramakrishnan on Thursday ruled out his resignation. | 10-Dec-2020 |
PM lays foundation stone of new Parliame | New Delhi, Dec 10 (TIWN) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday laid the foundation stone of the new Parliament building which will be equipped with all modern audio visual communication facilities and data network systems -- making it a symbol of Atmanirbhar Bharat. | 10-Dec-2020 |
Farmers' protest on Delhi borders contin | New Delhi, Dec 10 (TIWN) The agitation by farmers camping on the Delhi borders since November 26 to demand repeal of the new agricultural laws continued for the 15th day on Thursday, with peasant leaders adamant on intensifying the protests further. | 10-Dec-2020 |
New Gehlot-Pilot rift surfaces, Congress | Jaipur, Dec 10 (TIWN) The two Congress camps in Rajasthan that nearly cost the party the government in the state a few months back are at it again. | 10-Dec-2020 |
Raj: Ruling Cong loses to BJP in Panchay | Jaipur, Dec 9 (TIWN) In a major shocker to the ruling Congress government in state, the saffron party in Rajasthan swept 1,911 seats in the recently held panchayat samiti elections while the Congress was limited to 1,781 seats. | 09-Dec-2020 |
Govt agrees to key farmers' demands, ame | New Delhi, Dec 9 (TIWN) The Central government on Wednesday agreed to farmers' demands giving its nod on key issues raised by them, including amendments in the three contentious farms laws that were the first and biggest issue driving the ongoing farmers' protest. | 09-Dec-2020 |
Telangana Covid tally crosses 2.75L | Hyderabad, Dec 9 (TIWN) Telangana's Covid-19 tally crossed 2.75 lakh mark on Wednesday with the state adding 753 new cases during the last 24 hours. | 09-Dec-2020 |
13 farmer leaders leave Singhu border to | New Delhi, Dec 8 (TIWN) A delegation of 13 farmer leaders have left the Singhu border, one of the protest sites of the farmers on the outskirts of the national capital, to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah at his residence on Tuesday evening. | 08-Dec-2020 |
Congress opposes SWR's track-doubling pr | Panaji, Dec 8 (TIWN) The Goa Congress unit on Tuesday once again reiterated its demand for scrapping the South Western Railway's (SWR) track doubling project in Goa, saying the railway line largely facilitated coal transportation. | 08-Dec-2020 |
MSP will continue as before: PwC report( | New Delhi, Dec 7 (TIWN) A recent report by PwC has debunked the myth that MSP system will be terminated and marketplaces will be abolished under the farm laws introduced by the Centre. | 07-Dec-2020 |
BJP's accusatory stunts will not work, s | New Delhi, Dec 7 (TIWN) After the Bharatiya Janata Party's attack on the Congress over the APMC Act, the Congress hit back and said the BJP's accusatory stunts will not work and withdrawing black laws instead of wrongly blaming the Congress is the need of the hour. | 07-Dec-2020 |
BJP activists, police clash in Siliguri | Kolkata, Dec 7 (TIWN) BJP supporters and police clashed on Monday in at least four places in Siliguri, including Tinbatti intersection and Phoolbari Bazar, over a protest march towards Uttarkanya, a Mini-Secretariat building in north Bengal. | 07-Dec-2020 |
UG, PG exams after resumption of physica | Bhubaneswar, Dec 8 (TIWN) The Odisha government on Monday said that the conduct of examinations for undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) students will be considered after the resumption of classroom teaching and completion of syllabi. | 08-Dec-2020 |
Farmers balancing presence at protest si | New Delhi, Dec 8 (TIWN) In a bid to tend to their farms or unwind from the face-off with the police, few farmers from adjoining districts of Uttar Pradesh leave the protest site at the Ghazipur border with Delhi at night to return home and return to join the siege the next morning or few days later. | 08-Dec-2020 |
Petrol pump body in Punjab joins Bharat | Chandigarh, Dec 6 (TIWN) The Petrol Pump Dealers Association of Punjab on Sunday announced its support for the Bharat Bandh call of farmer organisations on December 8. | 06-Dec-2020 |
Weddings exempted from farmers 'peaceful | New Delhi, Dec 6 (TIWN) Farmer representatives from around 40 unions on Sunday requested a "peaceful Bharat Bandh" on December 8 and announced that weddings would be exempted from the nationwide protest. | 06-Dec-2020 |
Govt committed to fulfil dreams of Babas | New Delhi, Dec 6 (TIWN) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid tributes to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar on 'Mahaparinirvan Diwas', saying his government is committed to fulfilling his dreams that he had for the nation. | 06-Dec-2020 |
Bengaluru theatre guard falls to death w | Bengaluru, Dec 6 (TIWN) A security guard slipped off the scaffolding and fell to his death while replacing a film poster at a movie theatre in the city, police said on Sunday. | 06-Dec-2020 |
Maha Covid-19 deaths, new cases drop, re | Mumbai, Dec 5 (TIWN) After three days, Maharashtra Covid-19 deaths dropped below 100 while new cases came below the 5K-mark even as recoveries improved, health authorities said on Saturday. | 05-Dec-2020 |
Terror funding: Case filed against found | Guwahati, Dec 5 (TIWN) A right-wing leader close to the ruling BJP in Assam has lodged a complaint with the police against Ajmal Foundation, an organisation run by AIUDF Lok Sabha MP Maulana Badruddin Ajmal for receiving funds from foreign agencies allegedly linked to terrorist organisations, the police said on Saturday. | 05-Dec-2020 |
K'taka BJP passes resolutions to enact l | Belagavi (Karnataka), Dec 5 (TIWN) The executive committee of Karnataka BJP on Saturday passed two resolutions -- to introduce laws to ban cow slaughter and 'Love Jihad' in the state as early as possible. | 05-Dec-2020 |
Bengal BJP rally attacked in Asansol, 2 | Kolkata, Dec 5 (TIWN) A political rally organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal's Asansol was attacked allegedly by Trinamool Congress-backed men on Saturday. | 05-Dec-2020 |
Top BJP farmer leader gives 5 suggestion | New Delhi, Dec 5 (TIWN) Naresh Sirohi, till recently national vice president of the Bharatiya Janata Party Kisan Morcha, has made five important suggestions to the government to resolve the farmers' agitation. He has said that the three agricultural laws of the Union government are going to affect not only farmers but also the country's entire population. It is necessary to find a way out of the impasse that benefits everybody concerned. | 05-Dec-2020 |
Priyanka to have bases in Lucknow, Praya | New Delhi, Dec 4 (TIWN) With Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections still more than a year away, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is set to get involved more in state party unit affairs by setting up bases in state capital Lucknow and Prayagraj, party sources have said. | 04-Dec-2020 |
AgustaWestland case: SC stays HC order o | New Delhi, Dec 4 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Delhi High Court order, which dismissed the plea of the Enforcement Directorate to revoke businessman Rajiv Saxena's status as approver in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper scam. | 04-Dec-2020 |
Hold local body elections within 10 week | Bengaluru, Dec 4 (TIWN) The Karnataka High Court on Friday directed the State Election Commission (SEC) to declare elections to 198 wards of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) as early as possible, within two-and-a-half months from now. | 04-Dec-2020 |