The State government has decided to convene a special session of the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday to discuss and adopt the comprehensive report of the Socio, Economic, Education, Employment, Political and caste survey. The survey report will be approved by the State Cabinet which will meet at 10 a.m. on Tuesday morning and this will […]
GUWAHATI After Manipur, Assam has begun destroying poppy plantations. On Sunday, the police in western Assam’s Goalpara district used tractors to destroy poppy plants on more than 56 acres of a sandbar in the Brahmaputra River. The destroyed crop of the opium-producing plant was worth ₹27.20 crore. People living on some sandbars or ‘chars’, which […]
Three labourers died after falling into a drain while clearing a manhole at Kolkata Leather Complex in Bantala area in the eastern suburbs of the city on Sunday (February 2, 2025), police said. One of the labourers tripped and fell into the 20-feet-deep drain while clearing the manhole clogged with effluents from the leather units […]
Lok Sabha has been allocated ₹903 crore in the Union Budget, more than double the amount given to the Rajya Sabha. A sizeable allocation — ₹558.81 crore of the total ₹903 crore — has been assigned to the Lok Sabha Secretariat, which also includes Grants in Aid to the Sansad TV. Of the ₹413 crore […]
Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Y.S. Sharmila has slammed the Centre for “making meagre allocations for Andhra Pradesh in the Union Budget”. Taking to the social media platform X, she alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s budget was discriminatory. “The budget is ‘full’ for Bihar, and ‘Nill’ for Andhra Pradesh,” she said. Also read: […]
The government has only committed to “half-hearted” steps of registering gig workers on e-SHRAM and including them under the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, the Congress said on Sunday (February 2, 2025) and asserted that India needs a national legal and social security architecture for such workers. The Congress’s attack came a day […]
From large tract of lands, residential premises and commercial properties, to bank accounts, overseas assets valued close to ₹16,000 crore across 16 foreign jurisdictions have been attached or frozen in the recent past by the Enforcement Directorate in more than 30 cases involving major business houses and prominent persons, including the founder and former chairman […]
A six-member panel formed by the BJP visited Amritsar on Sunday (February 2, 2025) to probe the recent Ambedkar statue vandalisation bid. Panel members, including Rajya Sabha member and Uttar Pradesh’s former Director General of Police Brij Lal, BJP’s Scheduled Caste Morcha national president Lal Singh Arya and former Union Minister Som Parkash, paid floral […]
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Sunday (February 2, 2025), alleged that the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had boycotted the February 5 by-election to Erode East Assembly constituency because they did not have the strength to fight the DMK […]
The Madras High Court Chief Justice’s Bench has cautioned all the courts in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry against passing ex-parte interim orders in a casual manner and without due consideration to the loss that an individual/entity suffering and such an order would have to undergo until the orders get vacated. The first Division Bench comprising […]
