Azamgarh (UP), Mar 3 The mafia serving time in jail will be released if the Samajwadi Party comes to power in Uttar Pradesh, Home Minister Amit Shah said on Thursday, adding that the Akhilesh Yadav-led party and the BSP have tasted defeat in the first five rounds of polling. Shah also announced free electricity to […]
Bengaluru, Mar 3 Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Thursday spoke to students from the state stranded in war-torn Ukraine and assured them of all possible efforts towards safely evacuating them back to home. According to the Chief Minister’s office, about 200 students from the state are stranded in besieged city of Kharkiv. Bommai spoke […]
Jakarta, Mar 3 (AP) The walls of Saifullah’s home in northern Jakarta are lined like tree rings, marking how high the floodwaters have reached each year some more than 4 feet from the damp dirt floor. When the water gets too high, Saifullah, who like many Indonesians only uses one name, sends his family to […]
Islamabad, Mar 3 India has agreed to provide additional data on several western hydropower projects to Pakistan during an annual meeting between the officials of the two countries held here under the Permanent Commission on Indus Waters (PCIW), a media report said on Thursday. The three-day meeting between the two commissioners of PCIW completed discussions […]
Geneva, Mar 3 (AP) The UN human rights office says 227 civilians have been killed and another 525 injured in its latest count of the toll in Ukraine in the wake of Russia’s military invasion that began a week ago. The office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says the tally eclipses the entire […]
Sonbhadra/Chandauli (UP), Mar 3 Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday accused rival parties of trying to divide society on the lines of caste and religion and said that due to this, people’s actual problems like inflation and unemployment are ignored. Targeting the ruling BJP, she said it is the government’s duty to mitigate […]
Chennai, March 3 (BPNS) The Theni district committee of the AIADMK passed a resolution unanimously to bring back former interim general secretary of the party, V.K. Sasikala back to the party fold. The meeting also wanted her nephew TTV Dhinakaran and his party Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) back to the party fold. The meeting […]
Chennai, March 3 (BPNS) A traffic signal at Coimbatore on Wednesday night witnessed unusual scenes when a young couple shouted for help when a car was stopped at the signal. Passersby intervened and forced the couple out of the car. Police arrived and on questioning it was revealed that the young couple, Vignesh( 22) and […]
Chennai, March 3 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu State Human Rights Commission (TNSHRC) has awarded a compensation of Rs 2 lakh to a Mathematics research scholar at a Canadian university, Lois Sofia for shouting slogans at Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Tamilisai Sounderrajan when she was Tamil Nadu BJP president in 2018. The amount is to be paid […]
Chennai, March 3( BPNS) R. Priya, a 28-year-old Post Graduate and a Councillor from Mangalapuram is to become the next Mayor of Chennai. She will be the first Dalit Mayor of Chennai corporation after the State government in January 2022 passed an order reserving Chennai Corporation Mayor post to Dalit women. She is a Post […]
