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Kanpur, Apr 8 (UNI) Kanpur police have arrested Parvez Saifi, a close aide and driver of absconding doctor Afzal, in connection with the ongoing kidney transplant racket. Saifi was apprehended late Tuesday night from Rawatpur after a viral video showed him and the doctor with bundles of Rs 500 notes, officials said today. According to DCP SM Qasim Abidi, Saifi had been trying to evade arrest while seeking legal help for bail. Police recovered Rs 10 lakh in cash from his possession, which he al ...Read More >
Jaipur, April 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) Former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, in Chapter 16 of his 'Intezaar Shastra' digital series, launched a sharp attack on the Rajasthan government over delays in the construction of Marwar Medical University. He alleged that the BJP government has failed to protect the aspirations of the Marwar region, stating that the proposed Rs 500 crore project has fallen victim to a "tortoise pace" of progress. Ashok Gehlot said the deadline of March 31, 2027, now appears to b ...Read More >
Guwahati: Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Sunday said BJP's approach to tackling infiltration in Assam, for the next five years, will rest on three pillars -- making infiltrators landless, stateless and jobless."In the next five years, our approach will be clear -- make them landless, stateless and jobless, and prevent them from threatening our identity and culture. At the same time, we reaffirm that Assamese Muslims are integral to our society and are bona fide citizens of India. Our fight ...Read More >
Guwahati: Congress on Wednesday accused the BJP govt in Assam of running a "Bunty-Babli style govt" and staged a symbolic "lie detector test" to attack the party's manifesto promises and chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's record.At a press conference at the Congress headquarters, AICC media department chairman Pawan Khera questioned BJP's assurances on jobs, floods, corruption, wages and tribal status for six communities. A symbolic lie detector machine placed before journalists flashed a "red ...Read More >
Guwahati (Assam) [India], April 4 (ANI): With just one week left for the polling day, a sharp war of words marked Assam's political landscape on Saturday as Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is going to win "90 to 100 seats" in the upcoming elections. CM Sarma also called Congress leader Rahul Gandhi a "registered paagal," while Assam Pradesh Congress Committee chief Gaurav Gogoi hit back, terming the Chief Minister as "desperate" and claiming ...Read More >
Guwahati: Congress leader Pawan Khera sharply criticised the BJP's election manifesto at a Barpeta press conference on April 3, calling it a recycled document that vanishes after the polls, and accused Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma of shielding individuals in the Zubeen Garg case, promising immediate action and reforms if Congress returns to power. Khera said Congress's manifesto was developed with extensive public feedback and included specific timelines to ensure every promise is fulfill ...Read More >
After BJP, the Communist Party of India (CPI (M)) on Monday on Monday levelled serious allegations against the Himachal Pradesh government and chief secretary Sanjay Gupta accusing them of facilitating land mafia activities and benami land deals in the state. They also sought a probe by special investigation team (SIT). However, chief secretary termed the allegations as "baseless". The CPI (M) raised the issue of violation of Section 118 of the Himachal Pradesh Tenancy and Land Reforms Act cit ...Read More >
Guwahati: With campaigning intensifying ahead of the April 9 Assembly elections, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday promised greater autonomy for indigenous communities in Assam, pledging full implementation of Article 244(A) if the Congress is voted to power. Addressing a rally in Karbi Anglong in support of Congress candidate Raton Engti from the Bokajan constituency, Gandhi said the constitutional provision would enable local communities to exercise greater contro ...Read More >
Guwahati: Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Thursday escalated his criticism of the BJP by launching a frontal attack on Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, accusing him of being "the most corrupt chief minister in India" and charging him of converting the state into a land ATM for big businessmen of the country. Addressing a large election rally in Bokajan in Karbi Anglong Hils district in support of Congress candidate Raton Engti, Mr Gandhi accused the BJP of widespread corruption an ...Read More >
Guwahati/Bokajan, April 2: With campaigning intensifying ahead of the April 9 Assembly elections, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, on Thursday, promised greater autonomy for indigenous communities in Assam, pledging full implementation of Article 244(A) if the Congress returns to power. Addressing an election rally in Karbi Anglong in support of Congress candidate Raton Engti for the Bokajan constituency, Gandhi said the constitutional provision would empower local communitie ...Read More >
Addressing a campaign rally for the party's Sissiborgaon constituency candidate Jibon Gogoi, Irani said, "This election is not about making someone an MLA or Himanta Biswa Sarma the chief minister again. This is about chasing out each and every infiltrator away from our country." Mentioning the Dhemaji blast of August 15, 2004, in which 13 people, including school children, were killed, the BJP leader said, "These were innocent people killed. What was their mistake? Such dark clouds engulfed the ...Read More >
Jorhat, March 31: Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi, on Tuesday, launched a sharp attack on Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, questioning his earlier remarks on the issue of delivering justice to cultural icon Zubeen Garg, while raising fresh allegations over land holdings allegedly linked to the Chief Minister's family. Turning the spotlight back on the Sarma's own statement, he asked, "The Chief Minister himself had said that if justice is not delivered to Zubeen Garg, people need not vote for him. ...Read More >
Shimla, Mar 31 (PTI) Himachal Pradesh Chief Secretary Sanjay Gupta on Tuesday dismissed the allegations in connection with the Chester Hill housing project in Solan as baseless, asserting that the truth will prevail once the investigation is completed. Gupta was speaking at a press conference a day after the CPI(M) claimed violation of land laws in the project and demanded an investigation by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into alleged land mafia activities, including benami land deals, in ...Read More >
Dhemaji, March 31: Highlighting the growing role of women in Assam's political landscape, former Union minister Smriti Irani, on Tuesday, said women are now at the centre of the state's development narrative and electoral decision-making. Addressing a campaign rally in Sissiborgaon in support of BJP candidate Jibon Gogoi, Irani said Assam has witnessed sustained growth over the past decade, with women emerging as active participants in the political process. "Earlier it was said that women vot ...Read More >
Shimla: Chief secretary Sanjay Gupta on Monday rejected allegations made by the CPI(M) regarding the violation of laws while providing 275 bighas of land for the construction of Chester Hills housing project in Solan. Describing the charges as "false and baseless", he said that he had no role in any irregularities linked to the project, asserting that the land under question was purchased before he assumed office. He maintained that the transaction was conducted with due approval from competent ...Read More >
Guwahati: The Forest Department is preparing to launch a large-scale eviction drive targeting illegal encroachers in multiple forest areas of Hojai district in Assam, including the Jamuna Maudanga Reserved Forest under the South Nagaon Forest Division. Officials said encroachers have occupied significant tracts of forest land over the past decades. Authorities allege that the encroachers cleared forest cover, converted the land into betel nut plantations, dug ponds for fish farming, and engage ...Read More >
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], October 28 (ANI): Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, during his visit to Mamligh in Solan district on Tuesday, announced the upgradation of Mamligh sub-tehsil to tehsil and the opening of a Public Works Department sub-division at Mamligh, a release said. After dedicating development projects worth Rs 27.43 crore to the people of the area, the Chief Minister addressed a massive gathering at Mamligh. He also announced Rs 50 lakh for the cons ...Read More >
BJP leader and gang allegedly assaulted farmer's daughters and tore their clothes. Terror and mourning have gripped Ganeshpura village in Madhya Pradesh's Guna district, around 200 km away from the capital Bhopal, following a horrifying act of violence allegedly carried out by a local BJP leader. What began as a simmering land dispute ended in bloodshed on Sunday afternoon when Mahendra Nagar, the BJP Booth Committee President and a former office bearer of the Guna Kisan Morcha, allegedly beat ...Read More >
Silchar:Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is set to embark on a two-day visit to Barak Valley on Friday, covering Cachar and Sribhumi districts, with a series of key official and public engagements aimed at boosting development initiatives and strengthening grassroot outreach.Sarma will commence his tour at Ramkrishna Nagar in Sribhumi district, where he will be attending a cheque distribution event under the Mukhyamantri Mahila Udyamita Abhiyan (MMUA). The programme seeks to promote self ...Read More >
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi interpreted the apex court's 2016 verdict in Kedar Nath Yadav's case that quashed the land acquisition proceedings for establishing the manufacturing plant of Tata Motors. The bench said the 2016 judgement was anchored on the premise that the acquisition disproportionately affected vulnerable communities lacking financial resources and institutional access to challenge governmental action. The bench noted that this court had directed restorati ...Read More >
VARANASI: In a bizarre incident, a 75-year-old elderly man, who married a 40-year-old widow and mother of three children on Monday, died on Tuesday morning following a sharp deterioration in his health condition in Kuchhmuchh village under Gaurabadshahpur police station area of Jaunpur district.On the arrival of his nephew Ravi from Delhi on Wednesday morning, police sent his body for postmortem to clarify the cause of his death, said Gaurabadshahpur police station in-charge Pravin Kumar Yadav. ...Read More >
The company that won the contract to operate the tourism facility argued that equating an investor's 'passive' shareholding with collusion was misleading. Balkrishna, the co-founder and managing director of Patanjali Ayurved, was a shareholder in all three companies that bid to operate a tourism project in Uttarakhand, The Indian Express reported on Friday. One of the firms was awarded the tender. The firm that won the contract denied allegations of wrongdoing, arguing that equating an investo ...Read More >
IMPHAL: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, while addressing a rally at Mangaldoi in Assam's Darrang, said the government is in the process of launching a "demography mission". He said the mission is to tackle a premeditated conspiracy to change the demography of India's border areas with the help of 'infiltrators'. Calling it a grave threat to national security, Modi said a demographic mission is being started in the country, and the BJP government's goal is to save the people of the coun ...Read More >
Dehradun, Sep 13 (PTI) The Leader of Opposition in Uttarakhand Assembly, Yashpal Arya, has accused the state government of giving 142 acres of land in Mussoorie worth "Rs 30,000 crore" to a firm belonging to yoga guru Ramdev's aide Balkrishna on a nominal annual rent of Rs 1 crore, and demanded a probe into the matter by the CBI or a panel headed by a retired judge. In a social media post on Friday, Arya also claimed that the land in George Everest Estate, which has been given to Balkrishna's c ...Read More >
Dehradun: Yashpal Arya, the leader of the Opposition in the Uttarakhand Assembly, said the state government has allotted 762 bighas of the heritage site George Everest Estate in Mussoorie to a company called Aero Sports and Adventure Private Limited, backed by yoga guru Baba Ramdev and his associate Acharya Balkrishna, for a token Rs one crore annually and demanded a CBI enquiry into the matter. He alleged that the company has occupied about 1,000 bighas of land, the estimated value of which is ...Read More >
Residents of Nobdi Longkukro and Choto Larpheng villages in Assam's Dima Hasao (earlier known as North Cachar Hills district) face the prospect of eviction, subject to court order on a petition filed by them, from land they have traditionally owned for generations. Around 3,000 bighas (752.5 hectares) of land in these two villages, which fall under a Sixth Schedule area, have been allotted to Mahabal Cement Pvt. Ltd to set up a factory. The affected villagers belong to two Scheduled Tribe commu ...Read More >
Guwahati: The Gauhati High Court has expressed profound dismay, describing itself as "perturbed, curious, and shocked" over the Assam government's decision to allocate 3,000 bighas (approximately 991 acres) of tribal land in Dima Hasao district to Mahabal Cement Private Limited for a cement factory. Our sources confirmed that during a hearing on Monday Justice Sanjay Kumar Medhi questioned the rationale behind granting such a vast tract in a Sixth Schedule area, where tribal rights and environm ...Read More >
"We will protect you, but why are you bypassing the high court," said a bench of justices MM Sundresh and Kotiswar Singh. "We are not inclined to entertain the challenge to the FIR [first information report]. We grant interim protection of four weeks to the petitioner to enable him to approach the high court." Sharma challenged a private person's FIR against him for questioning the state government's move to allot 3,000 bighas of tribal land to a private entity for a cement factory. The video w ...Read More >
Jaipur, Aug 28 (PTI) The Rajasthan High Court on Thursday cancelled the contentious police sub-inspector recruitment exam-2021 owing to paper leak. Justice Sameer Jain in a detailed judgment cancelled the exam 2021 which was the bone of contention for both BJP and Congress governments in the state. "Illegality and fraud on the system was so conspicuous. It is strange that the state government did not take action any decision on the subject. The court's decision hopefully will act as a deterren ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], August 28 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday granted a four-week protection to journalist and YouTuber Abhisar Sharma in connection with an FIR lodged against him by the Assam police. The top court, however, refused to quash the FIR lodged against Sharma and asked him to approach the High Court seeking the same. Also Read | JeM Terrorists in Bihar: Police Issue High Alert As 3 Jaish-E-Mohammed Operatives Enter State via Nepal Border, Release Their Sketches. The case perta ...Read More >
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