The man was stabbed to death for allegedly spreading cake over a friend’s face during birthday party (Representative image) JAMMU: A 35-year-old man paid with his life, allegedly for smearing cake on his friend’s face on the latter’s birthday in Jammu’s Janipur area late Thursday.Police said Friday they arrested the prime accused, Neeraj, whose birthday…
NEW DELHI: There is a need to write the “intent” of policies, regulations and guidelines in brief while notifying them, a move that will bring clarity and communicate what it aims to achieve, suggested D Thara, secretary of newly created department of capital development under the housing and urban affairs ministry.Speaking at a conference of…
NEW DELHI: The Congress and TMC on Friday mounted a joint attack on the ruling BJP following the arrest of Milan Pradhan, the Congress candidate for the upcoming Nandigram bypoll in West Bengal.Both parties pointed to two key factors surrounding Pradhan’s arrest: that it stemmed from an old case, and that it occurred just hours…
Tamil Nadu govt to provide one-gram gold rings to newborns NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay will launch the one-gram gold ring scheme for newborns on September 28, the state government said. The one-gram gold rings will be provided to babies born in government hospitals under the scheme.The rings will have a…
TMC to skip Nagaon Lok Sabha bypoll NEW DELHI: The Trinamool Congress‘ Assam unit has decided not to contest the upcoming Nagaon Lok Sabha bypoll in protest against the Election Commission‘s decision to freeze the party’s name and election symbol, the state convenor said.The party had earlier announced Abdul Salam as its candidate for the…
Mamata Banerjee has rejected the Election Commission’s new party name and symbol for her faction, calling the move “unconstitutional, illegal, undemocratic” as the TMC split deepens. She called the internal factional dispute in TMC, a “black day” in India’s democratic history. A suicide blast at a mosque inside a police compound in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…
Punjab minister Tarunpreet Singh Sond Punjab tourism minister Tarunpreet Singh Sond on Thursday said Punjab government’s ‘Mukh Mantri Tirath Yatra’ scheme has facilitated pilgrimage for 5,10,807 devotees to various religious destinations in and outside the state.He said the scheme aims to facilitate elderly residents who wish to visit religious places by providing them free travel…
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has introduced fresh measures to strengthen regulations governing spam calls and commercial messages. NEW DELHI: You may soon get some relief from the unending nuisance of unsolicited commercial communications (UCC) or spam calls including robo-calls and pre-recorded/artificial voice technologies. Now, commercial communications can be sent to a customer…
Ritabrata Banerjee hits out at Mamata-led TMC name NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India on Friday allotted new names and symbols to the rival Trinamool Congress factions led by former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Arup Roy, a day after directing both groups to stop using the party name “All India Trinamool…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission on Friday allotted Mamata-led faction “Mamata All India Trinamool Congress” as name and “football player” as party symbol.Meanwhile, the rival group led by Arup roy is allotted the name “Democratic Trinamool Congress” and the symbol of “envelope.”This comes a day after the poll panel, in its interim order, ruled that neither…