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SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI: An "accidental" explosion ripped through the Nowgam police station in Srinagar, killing nine people and injuring 32 others, senior officials said while underlining that it was not a terror attack. Director General of Jammu and Kashmir Police Nalin Prabhat and MHA Joint Secretary (Kashmir) Prashant Lokhande said the incident occurred while officials were handling samples of the large cache of explosives seized in connection with the Jaish-e-Mohammed 'white-collar' terror modu ...Read More >
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday announced an ex gratia of Rs 10 lakh for the family of each of the deceased in the accidental blast in Nowgam police station. The compensation will be provided from the Chief Minister's Relief Fund. Those severely injured will get Rs 1 lakh each, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on his official X account. "As a mark of solidarity and immediate succour, the government has announced ex gratia relief from the Chief Minister's Relief Fund at ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: At least six people were killed and seven injured when a powerful explosion tore through an illegal fireworks factory in the city on Saturday, officials said. Deputy Commissioner Zain ul Abideen Memon confirmed that a fifth body had been recovered from the debris, adding that three of the injured were in critical condition. A spokesperson for Rescue 1122 said the explosion occurred at a firecracker manufacturing site located on the banks of the Laghari Goth river within the Latifaba ...Read More >
Surat (Gujarat) [India], November 16 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a scathing attack on RJD and Congress leaders, accusing them of spreading the rhetoric of caste politics and said people of Bihar completely rejected "poison of caste division". Addressing a gathering at Surat airport, PM Modi slammed Rahul Gandhi over the Bihar poll results, saying a large segment of the Congress party, is fed up "with 'naamdaar's' actions". The ruling National Democratic Alliance (N ...Read More >
Patna: Former Union minister R K Singh on Saturday resigned from the BJP's primary membership shortly after the party suspended him and two other leaders for alleged anti-party activities. The BJP also issued show-cause notices to all three, directing them to explain within a week why they should not be expelled.Singh, a bureaucrat-turned-politician and former Ara MP, had been making remarks critical of the party after losing the Lok Sabha election last year. He was effectively sidelined during ...Read More >
Patna: The just-concluded Bihar assembly poll results have set off an interesting debate in political circles. Although the RJD, headed by Lalu Prasad, put up a disastrous performance in the elections, it had the highest vote percentage of 23. Again, although the AIMIM of the Hyderabad parliamentarian got only 1.85% of the votes, it managed to win five seats, repeating its 2020 poll percentage.Although the RJD maintained its 2020 assembly poll record of getting 23.11% of the votes, it managed to ...Read More >
Patna: The NDA's landslide victory in the Bihar assembly polls will enable it to secure all Rajya Sabha seats from the state in the coming two biennial elections, causing a sharp decrease in the number of RJD members in the Upper House unless it wins more seats in the next assembly elections.The RJD currently holds five of Bihar's 16 Rajya Sabha seats with the Congress holding one.The next round of Rajya Sabha elections, slated for early next year, will see the tenures of RJD MPs Prem Chand Gupt ...Read More >
Sasaram: Although the Grand Alliance (GA) managed to retain only one of the 11 assembly seats in Rohtas district -- Karakat -- the election results indicate that the alliance continues to enjoy strong support among govt employees who cast their votes through postal ballots. In almost every segment, GA candidates received more postal-ballot votes than their NDA counterparts. Notably, govt employees also pressed NOTA in every assembly segment of the twin districts.In Sasaram, out of the total 2,21 ...Read More >
Patna: A day after the RJD suffered a crushing electoral setback, the crisis within the party escalated into the personal domain with Rohini Acharya stepping out of her father Lalu Prasad's residence on Saturday to declare that she had "no family left". Rohini, who once donated a kidney to save Lalu's life said she had been "expelled" by those closest to the RJD leadership, turning an already fraught internal rift into an unprecedented public rupture."I don't have any family, you should go and a ...Read More >
Patna: Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi on Saturday said the people of Bihar have rejected caste politics in the assembly elections.Addressing the people of Bihar in Surat, PM Modi said the opposition leaders in Bihar would take months to recover from the shock they suffered after the assembly election results were declared on Friday.Modi, who celebrated the NDA victory at the Delhi BJP office on Friday by saying "Bihar ke logo ne garda uda diya", a colloquial expression meaning doing something ...Read More >
Chennai: Leader of opposition Edappadi K Palaniswami on Saturday said the DMK govt turned Tamil Nadu into a land of missed chances. His remark came in the wake of South Korea's Hwaseung firm, which initially planned to invest in TN, opting for Andhra Pradesh instead. Referring to media reports about the Korean footwear firm shifting its base to Andhra Pradesh, in chief minister Chandrababu Naidu's Kuppam constituency, Palaniswami in an X post alleged that the company's decision "reflected a tren ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 15: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav's daughter, Rohini Acharya, on Saturday announced that she is quitting politics and severing ties with her family, a day after the party was routed in the Bihar assembly elections, winning just 25 seats, Hindustan Times reported. In a post on X, Rohini said she was taking the step on the advice of Sanjay Yadav and Rameez. "I'm quitting politics and I'm disowning my family... This is what Sanjay Yadav and Rameez had asked me t ...Read More >
Kolkata, Nov 15 (UNI) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday evening released a medical student with family roots in North Dinajpur, a day after detaining him in connection with the recent explosion near Delhi's Red Fort. Nishar Alam, an MBBS student at Al-Falah University in Haryana, was picked up from the bustling Surjapur Bazar area in North Dinajpur district on Friday morning by a special NIA team that had travelled overnight from Delhi. He was first taken to Islampur for prel ...Read More >
Chennai: Alleging that Booth Level Officers (BLOs) of the Election Commission of India (ECI) were not distributing enumeration forms to members of the Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK), the party's president Vijay alerted his cadre on the issue and urged them to ensure that their names figured in the Electoral Rolls, which was important for them to cast their votes. Waking up 11 days after the ECI launched the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the State, Vijay released a video ...Read More >
Vote counting for the Jubilee Hills Assembly by-election commenced Friday amid tight security, with postal ballots processed first. The crucial contest, necessitated by the death of a BRS MLA, sees candidates from Congress, BRS, and BJP vying for the seat. Nearly half of the eligible voters participated in the November 11 polling. Amid tight security, the counting of votes for the Jubilee Hills Assembly constituency by-election, a key contest for both the ruling Congress government and BRS, beg ...Read More >
Authorities have seized a massive cache of explosives. Nearly 2,900kg of ammonium nitrate and other explosive materials were found in two locations. The rooms were rented by a doctor associated with Al-Falah University. Investigations are underway to determine the source and intended use of the recovered items. The recovery was a joint operation between Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana police. The Jammu and Kashmir police in a joint operation with the Haryana police recovered approximately 2,900kg ...Read More >
Bharatiya Janata Party's Samrat Choudhary, a seasoned politician with a strong family legacy, is contesting from Tarapur. Having served as Agriculture Minister and Urban Development Minister, Choudhary rose to become BJP Bihar state president and later Deputy Chief Minister, overseeing key portfolios. His political journey highlights a significant rise within the party. Samrat Choudhary, a distinguished candidate from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is set to contest the upcoming Bihar Assemb ...Read More >
The All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) is putting up one of its strongest performances in Bihar's Seemanchal region in the 2025 Assembly elections. Trends from the Election Commission of India (ECI) show the party leading in six key seats, a repeat of its impressive showing in the 2020 polls. According to the latest counting rounds, AIMIM candidates are ahead in: Jokihat: Mohammad Murshid Alam - 61,764 votes, 20,128 margin Bahadurganj: Md Tauseef Alam - 41,474 votes, 2,915 margin ...Read More >
Chennai: The first half of Nov, usually the wettest period in the city, remained largely dry with only brief isolated spells as there was no active weather systems. Weathermen said rain might return next week as the monsoon could become active. India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast heavy rain across several coastal districts, including Chennai, on Nov 17. Bloggers, meanwhile, also hint at the possibility of a cyclone forming over the Bay of Bengal later this month."On Friday, the ci ...Read More >
The 2025 Bihar election could throw up a massive shock, bigger even than the opposition Mahagathbandhan being steamrolled by the BJP and Janata Dal-led ruling alliance. Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav - the opposition alliance's chief ministerial candidate - is on course for a humiliating defeat in his family stronghold of Raghopur. At 11.30 am the RJD chief was trailing by over 3,000 votes to the Bharatiya Janata Party's Satish Kumar Yadav who, 15 years ago, also defeated his mothe ...Read More >
The TMC leader said there will be curiosity about which direction the BJP-JD(U) relationship in Bihar goes. The BJP-led NDA appeared to register a landslide victory in Bihar, opening up impressive leads in more than 180 of the state's 243 assembly seats till noon. Ghosh alleged that in West Bengal, there will be conspiracies by the BJP and the Election Commission (ECI) regarding SIR and related matters. The Trinamool Congress on Friday asserted that the poll results in neighbouring Bihar, where ...Read More >
Haveri: Under pressure from protesting sugarcane farmers, the state govt has agreed to establish a separate laboratory in Haveri district to measure sugar recovery.Sugar recovery typically refers to the percentage of sugar obtained from a fixed weight of cane crushed in a factory. Sugarcane farmers in the district have been demanding a separate laboratory to test sugar recovery, alleging that recovery rates have declined sharply after private companies took over the cooperative-run factory two d ...Read More >
Midday trends from Bihar's 2025 Assembly elections show the Indian National Congress leading in just seven seats, highlighting its diminishing presence and struggle for relevance within the Mahagathbandhan. Despite national campaigns, hyper-local issues appear to have overshadowed Congress's messaging, contributing to the NDA's strong performance. The Indian National Congress has once again slipped further in Bihar's political landscape, with midday trends from the 2025 Assembly elections showi ...Read More >
Maithili Thakur is set to become the youngest Bihar MLA. Almost ten Gen Zs stood the electoral test in the two-phase Bihar Assembly elections, including spiritual singer and BJP's Alinagar candidate Maithili Thakur. Here is how the nine candidates aged 25 years stand as of 4 pm: In Alinagar, Maithili Thakur is on the path to become the state's youngest ever MLA. She is almost 7,000 votes ahead of Rashtriya Janata Dal's (RJD) Binod Mishra. Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party's (RLJP) Yash Raj lost f ...Read More >
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the NDA's performance in the Bihar Assembly election reflected the voters' confidence in the alliance's development track record. In a post on X, he said, "The NDA has ensured all-round development of the state. The people have given us a massive majority after witnessing our track record and our vision to take the state to new heights. I heartily congratulate Chief Minister Nitish Kumar ji and our NDA family allies Chirag Paswan ji, Jitan Ram Manjhi j ...Read More >
HYDERABAD The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has accepted the defeat in the Jubilee Hills Assembly byelection and decided to conduct an introspection on the result, although it is disappointing to some extent. The Opposition party, however, accused the ruling Congress of resorting to various irregularities, including the misuse of power and large-scale violations of the poll code, as well as inaction by the Election Commission. Reacting to the poll result while addressing a press conference alo ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram Nov 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) Maverick Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Friday said the Opposition must undertake "serious introspection" following its resounding defeat in the Bihar Assembly elections, stressing that lessons must be learnt ahead of five crucial state polls next year. His remarks, coming hours after the results, underline the growing concern within the INDIA bloc about gaps in strategy and coordination. Interacting with reporters here, Tharoor, who has raised hackles ...Read More >
Gandhinagar, Nov 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Narmada district will host the national-level celebration of Tribal Pride Day on November 15 in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, marking the 150th birth anniversary of revered tribal icon Birsa Munda, also known as Dharti Aaba. As part of the event in Dediapada, the Prime Minister will inaugurate and lay foundation stones for development projects worth over Rs 9,700 crore, jointly funded by the Centre and the Gujarat government. Chief Minis ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 14 (PTI) After the Delhi government launched inter-state electric bus services to two cities and plans further expansion, it will also install electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure at the city's three major interstate bus terminals (ISBTs), officials said. The Delhi Transport Infrastructure Development Corporation (DTC) has floated a tender for the supply and installation of chargers and the required infrastructure at the three ISBTs -- Kashmere Gate, Sarai Kale Khan, and ...Read More >
Bihar Election Results 2025: The assembly election outcomes in the state have showcased the power of silent groundwork over loud rhetoric. While political parties sparred in high-decibel campaigns, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worked behind the scenes, orchestrating a network of grassroots engagements that set the stage for the historic performance of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in particular and National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in general. The Sangh's strategy was meticulous. T ...Read More >
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