Kolkata: Hours after attending his mother's last rites at Gandhinagar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday virtually flagged off Vande Bharat Express, a superfast train connecting Kolkata with the NJP, the gateway of North Bengal.
Agartala: The BJP-led government in Tripura has already provided 24,033 jobs in its 58 months rule while 17,916 posts have been waiting to be filled up, as the finance department gave concurrence for recruitment, said information minister Sushanta Chowdhury here on Friday.
Kolkata/IBNS: "There is no substitute for mother. Your mother is our mother also," said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday condoling the demise of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother Heeraben Modi, who passed away at 100 last night.
Kolkata/New Delhi/IBNS: Hours after performing the last rites of his mother Heeraben Modi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday flagged off the country's seventh and West Bengal's first Vande Bharat Express train in Kolkata.
Kolkata/IBNS: In a deja vu of what had happened at Victoria Memorial in 2021, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday refused to take the dais after the "Jai Shree Ram" slogan was raised by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers upon her arrival at the Howrah Station here during the Vande Bharat Express inauguration.
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was scheduled to visit West Bengal on Friday and now he will join the scheduled programmes via video conferencing despite the demise of her mother, officials said.
New Delhi: Top Indian politicians, including Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, on Friday mourned the death of PM Narendra Modi's mother Heeraba Modi.
Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother Heeraba Modi passed away at the age of 100 on Friday morning.
Fifty-one years on, Pakistan gets sharp reminders of its Bangladesh loss as yet another province, Balochistan, rises in revolt.
Mumbai/IBNS: A note has been recovered from the set of a TV show in Maharashtra where actor Tunisha Sharma was found hanging last Saturday, the police said.
Lucknow/IBNS: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav Thursday said he wasn’t invited to join Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra as BJP and the Congress were on the same boat while his party has a different ideology.
Kolkata/IBNS: In yet another controversy over a song and saffron colour, singer Arijit Singh's Feb 18 concert in Kolkata has been cancelled triggering off allegations by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that it's a political decision.
New Delhi/IBNS: India Thursday called on Pakistan to protect the minorities after the killing of a Hindu woman Daya Bheel in Sindh province of the neighbouring country.
New Delhi/IBNS: After Uzbekistan blamed Indian cough syrup for the death of 18 children in the country, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Arindam Bagchi Thursday said the domestic pharma industry remains a reliable supplier of drugs across the world.
Patna/IBNS: The Bihar Police Thursday detained the Chinese woman, suspected of spying on Dalai Lama amid the Tibetan spiritual leader's visit to Bodh Gaya.
The Indian Air Force successfully test-fired the extended-range version of the BrahMos Air Launched missile in the Bay of Bengal, according to a statement on Thursday.
Bodh Gaya/IBNS: Police have issued a security alert amid Dalai Lama’s visit to Bodh Gaya and released a sketch of a Chinese woman, who it suspects, is plotting an attack on him.
Mumbai/IBNS: A special CBI court in Mumbai sent former ICICI Bank MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar, her husband Deepak Kochhar, and Videocon's Venugopal Dhoot to judicial custody till January 10 in a loan fraud case.
New Delhi/IBNS: Over the last few months, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has been busy in walking in the nationwide rally, dubbed as Bharat Jodo Yatra, in a bid to boost up his beleaguered party to tackle the supremacy of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Kolkata/UNI: The West Bengal Police has arrested the husband as the prime suspect in the Jharkhand actress Riya Kumari murder case, who was found shot dead inside of her car from close range at Bagnan in Howrah district early on Wednesday.
Kolkata/UNI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit West Bengal on Friday to inaugurate a number of projects.
New Delhi/IBNS: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi broke security protocol in the Delhi leg of nationwide rally Bharat Jodo Yatra, the central force said this after the party alleged its top leader's security was breached on a number of occasions in the national capital, media reports said.
Thiruvananthapuram/UNI: In another major state-wide crackdown against the Popular Front of India (PFI), simultaneous raids were conducted in 56 places by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Kerala on Thursday.
Raygada (Odisha): The mysterious deaths of two Russians, one of them a known critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, within days of each other in a hotel in Odisha’s Rayagada has forced the state police to order a CID probe after dismissing the two deaths as mere instances of heart attack and suicide.
Hyderabad/IBNS: At least eight people including one woman died in a near-stampede situation in the Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh, during a roadshow by the state's former Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu.
New Delhi/UNI: The Congress on Wednesday constituted screening committees for the forthcoming Assembly elections in Tripura, Meghalaya, and Nagaland.New Delhi/UNI: The Congress on Wednesday constituted screening committees for the forthcoming Assembly elections in Tripura, Meghalaya, and Nagaland.
Mumbai/IBNS: NCP leader and former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh was released on bail from Mumbai’s Arthur Road jail after 12 months, media reports said.
Mumbai/IBNS: A special CBI court on Wednesday extended the custody of Chanda Kochhar, her husband Deepak Kochhar and Videocon group founder Venugopal Dhoot in ICICI Bank loan fraud case, media reports said.
New Delhi/IBNS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday visited his mother Heeraben Modi who is in a hospital in Ahmedabad since last night after her health deteriorated.
Kolkata/UNI: The All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) will on Monday, Jan 2, launch an outreach programme to showcase the multifaceted package of social welfare schemes that the West Bengal government has to offer.
