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Chandigarh, Apr 8 (PTI) Former Punjab MLA Navjot Kaur Sidhu, who joined political outfit Bharatiya Rashtrawadi Party (BRP), claimed on Wednesday that her husband Navjot Singh Sidhu was not part of any political outfit. Spelling out a roadmap in Punjab, the former Congress leader told reporters here that the BRP will contest the 2027 assembly polls in the state. She advocated opium cultivation if her party forms the government after the next assembly elections. Kaur, who was expelled from the C ...Read More >
Mumbai, Apr 8 (PTI) Police have arrested a man for creating an AI-generated video linked to the plane crash that killed former Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar with the alleged aim of defaming Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, an official said on Wednesday. The accused, Uddhav Bhagwan Kapse, was arrested from Jalna district in the state by the Cyber Cell of the West Regional Division in Mumbai. After the January 28 Baramati plane crash, Kapse collected various video clips aired by ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The spotlight is finally on the voters now across Assam, Kerala and Puducherry who are all set to cast their ballots on Thursday. More than 5.3 crore people will decide the fate of parties and candidates in two states and a union territory.From a bipolar contest in Assam to Kerala's ideological tug-of-war and Puducherry's multi-cornered fight, the day promises a verdict that could ripple beyond regional boundaries.Polling will begin at 7 am across thousands of booths, backed by extens ...Read More >
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], April 8 (ANI): Himachal Pradesh Minister Vikramaditya Singh on Wednesday addressed the state's ongoing financial challenges, noting that the debt situation is not new but has been building over successive governments. Speaking to ANI, Singh said, "The financial situation of the state is not new. It has been a continuous problem of debt. This is a matter of concern for all of us. With the Revenue Deficit Grant (RDG) closed, the state has faced increasing diffic ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 8 (PTI) A day before Kerala goes to polls, on Wednesday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi urged the people to vote for the United Democratic Front (UDF) to help elect a government with a vision to harness the state's talent and potential. Gandhi said this election is about their future as this is an ideological battle between the BJP and the Left Democratic Front (LDF), which has now partnered with each other. Kerala will vote on April 9 to elect its 140-member state assembly. The c ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Apr 8 (PTI) Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini on Wednesday said BJP will form a government in West Bengal under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as people of the state want development, industry, women's safety and good governance. During the long period of the Left rule and now under the present government in West Bengal headed by Mamata Banerjee, "industry and employment have suffered", he claimed, adding that people want change. "Due to issues such as atroc ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 8 (PTI) A Delhi Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) has awarded Rs 2.72 crore as compensation to a 19-year-old man left paralysed in a road accident in 2023. Presiding Officer Ruchika Singla was hearing a claim petition filed by the paralysed man, Khushwant Kapoor, against the driver of the offending vehicle, Harish Madan, its owner Mohan Lal Madan and its insurer. According to the prosecution, in the early hours of April 26, 2023, Kapoor was going home on his motorcycle, when ...Read More >
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 >
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved a series of decisions with a combined financial implication of over Rs 1.74 lakh crore, including an increase in Nutrient Based Subsidy (NBS) on fertiliser rates for the Kharif season by Rs 4,317 crore. The cabinet also approved two Hydroelectric projects in Arunachal Pradesh worth Rs 40,000 crore, the second phase of Jaipur Metro (42 Kms) with an outlay of Rs 13,000 crore and an upward cost revision to ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 8 (ANI): The Ministry of Petroleum, in a press conference on Wednesday, said that there is sufficient availability of Liquefied Petroleum Gas and other fuels such as petrol and diesel despite tensions in West Asia, and the government has ensured consistent supply throughout the crisis by prioritising domestic consumers for the supply of LPG. During the inter-ministerial briefing, Sujata Sharma, General Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, added that commerc ...Read More >
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday responded to a Madurai court's verdict in the 2020 custodial death case of a father-son duo in Tamil Nadu, where nine police officials from the Sathankulam police station were sentenced to death. The judgment comes nearly six years after P Jayaraj and his son J Bennix were allegedly assaulted by police personnel in Sathankulam, Thoothukudi district, for reportedly keeping their mobile shop open in violation of COVID-19 restrictions. Also Read ...Read More >
Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Kumar Gautam rejected the bail plea of teenager Abuzar Gaffari, who has been accused of committing offences under Sections 318 , 112 , 317 , 49 , and 3 of the BNS, along with Section 66 of the Information Technology Act. "This court is of the view that the role attributed to the applicant is not peripheral. Economic offences involving organised cyber fraud have serious ramifications on society and financial systems, and are required to be dealt with strictly," th ...Read More >
Guwahati, Apr 8 (PTI) More than 1.5 lakh security personnel have been deployed as part of arrangements for Thursday's polling in Assam that will decide the fate of 722 candidates hoping to enter the 126-member state Assembly. Officials said 31,940 polling stations have been set up in 35 districts for the single-phase polling. Micro-observers have been deputed in sensitive polling stations. The results will be declared on May 4. While most personnel set out for the polling stations on Wednesda ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 8 (PTI) The Delhi government is preparing a standard operating procedure (SOP) to ensure prompt regularisation of 1,521 unauthorised colonies in the national capital through district-wise cells headed by additional district magistrates (ADMs), officials said on Wednesday. The Centre on Tuesday announced a new policy to regularise properties based on "as is where is" eligibility criteria in the unauthorised colonies with approvals from Delhi government agencies. The entire proces ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Apr 8 (PTI) Voting for bypolls to two Assembly segments in Karnataka -- Bagalkot and Davanagere South -- will be held on Thursday, following a high-voltage campaign by both the ruling Congress and the opposition BJP. The polls were necessitated by the deaths of senior Congress MLAs H Y Meti and Shamanur Shivashankarappa. Counting of votes will take place on May 4. Although the outcome of these by-elections is unlikely to have an immediate impact on state politics, the contest is see ...Read More >
Jabalpur (MP), Apr 8 (PTI) A 42-year-old man hailing from Uttar Pradesh, wanted in several cases of thefts on trains, has been arrested in the district after a five-hour operation involving an anxious wait on the edge of a pond, police said on Wednesday. Harvinder Singh (42) alias Sunny allegedly tried to steal a woman's purse in an AC coach of the Rewa-Itwari Express in the wee hours of Monday when it was passing through Jabalpur district, said a Railway Protection Force (RPF) official. He wa ...Read More >
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], April 8 (ANI): YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) leader Srikanth Reddy on Wednesday alleged that the Andhra Pradesh government is "looting public money" in the name of capital development, claiming inflated construction costs. He said that the government is quoting around ₹14,000 per square foot for construction, calling it "daylight robbery" of public funds. Reddy compared this with the cost of major projects like the Parliament building and the Telangana Secretari ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has set another milestone, highlighting the state's strong commitment to industrial growth and timely implementation as Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi today laid the foundation stone and launched a total of 36 industrial projects at an investment of Rs 40,811 crore at Bhuinpur in Khurda district. Out of these, 25 projects have been launched and the foundation stone of 11 projects has been laid. On this occasion, the Chief Minister said that Odisha is no longer ...Read More >
Mumbai: Vietnam-based Vingroup has announced a massive investment of $6.5 billion in Maharashtra, aimed at driving sustainable urban development, industrial growth, tourism, renewable energy, and electric mobility. The announcement was made in the presence of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, as the company signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the state's Industries Department and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority. Fadnavis Calls Investment a Step Toward Modern Urb ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 8 (PTI) "At times, I feel like starting practising law again," West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday, targeting the BJP and the poll panel over large-scale name deletions from voter rolls under the SIR, while asserting the TMC would move court over the issue. Banerjee, who has an LLB degree, argued in the Supreme Court on February 4, urging it to intervene in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls to "save democracy", alleging that We ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 8 (ANI): Congress media department chairperson Pawan Khera on Wednesday launched further attacks against Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma amid the ongoing spat between the two. In a post on X, the Congress shared a self-made video of Khera from an "undisclosed location" levelling allegations of corruption against Sarma. Questioning the Assam CM, the party wrote, "If you have the guts, answer them." https://x.com/incindia/status/2041849834978865515?s=46&t=UsV-BW ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 8 (ANI): Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy and Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Pralhad Joshi, on Wednesday said India has surpassed Brazil to rank third globally, in Renewable Energy Installed Capacity, according to the Renewable Energy Statistics 2026, a press release by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy said. Joshi said India's total power generation during 2025-26 (up to March 2026) reached 1,845.921 BU. The share of non-fossil fuels ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Apr 8 (PTI) Former Punjab MLA Navjot Kaur Sidhu, who joined political outfit Bharatiya Rashtrawadi Party (BRP), claimed on Wednesday that her husband Navjot Singh Sidhu was not part of any political outfit. Spelling out a roadmap in Punjab, the former Congress leader told reporters here that the BRP will contest the 2027 assembly polls in the state. She advocated opium cultivation if her party forms the government after the next assembly elections. Kaur, who was expelled from the C ...Read More >
New Delhi, April 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Centre on Wednesday announced that increase in the commercial LPG limit to 70 per cent of the pre-March 2026 bulk consumption level will be extended to industrial units in the pharma, food, polymer, agriculture, packaging, paint, uranium, heavy water, steel, seed, metal, ceramic, foundry, forging, glass, and aerosol sectors. The increase will be subject to an overall sectoral limit of 0.2 thousand metric tonnes per day. Besides, conditions regarding regi ...Read More >
Mumbai, Apr 8 (PTI) Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said Vietnam-based Vingroup has committed to investing USD 6.5 billion in Maharashtra over the next two years in various sectors, including electric mobility solutions, renewable energy, tourism and entertainment. An official release earlier mentioned the investment figure as USD 8.5 billion. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between Vingroup, the state industries department and the Mumbai Metropolitan R ...Read More >
Noida, Apr 8 (PTI) Private schools in Gautam Buddh Nagar cannot compel students to purchase books, uniforms, shoes or other items from specific vendors and have to limit fee hikes to 7.23 per cent for the 2026-27 academic session, according to an official statement issued after a review meeting of the District Fee Regulatory Committee. The decisions were taken at a meeting chaired by District Magistrate Medha Roopam on Tuesday under provisions of the Uttar Pradesh Self-Financed Independent Scho ...Read More >
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Panaji zonal office has provisionally attached properties valued at over Rs 17.45 crore under the provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in connection with the investigation pertaining to illegal operation of Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub in Goa. A fire at the nightclub in North Goa's Arpora on December 6 last year killed 25 people, including five tourists. The brothers Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, who ran the club, had taken a flight from Delhi t ...Read More >
New Delhi, April 8: More than 6.1 crore voters are expected to exercise their vote on Thursday when the two states of Assam and Kerala, and the Union Territory of Puducherry will go to Assembly polls in a single‑phase voting schedule. The election in this round will cover 140 seats in Kerala, 126 in Assam and 30 in Puducherry, with the phase serving as a political soundboard and mid‑term test for regional and national parties alike. Results will be declared on May 4 alongside outcomes for Tamil ...Read More >
Chennai, Apr 8 (PTI) AIADMK chief Edappadi K Palaniswami on Wednesday flayed the Stalin-led government, labelling it as a "failure model" that could not deliver on its promises on filling up government posts, giving jobs to youth, or even preventing massive inundation in Chennai during monsoons. Terming the DMK as "evil", he asked people to oust their government from Tamil Nadu. He said that during the last five years of the DMK rule, people suffered hardship in many ways, including deteriorat ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 8 (PTI) Investors' wealth swelled by Rs 16.25 lakh crore on Wednesday, mirroring a sharp rally in the stock market where the BSE Sensex jumped nearly 4 per cent, after the US and Iran announced a two-week ceasefire. Rising for the fifth day in a row, the 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 2,946.32 points or 3.95 per cent to settle at 77,562.90, registering its best trading day in five years. During the day, it surged 3,018.96 points or 4 per cent to 77,635.54. Thanks to the sharp rally ...Read More >
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