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Kolkata: CM Mamata Banerjee is set to visit several districts from next week. Sources at Nabanna said the CM might visit Ghatal in West Midnapore to take stock of the flood situation on Aug 5. On the way, the CM might have a stopover at Hooghly's Arambag.A day later, Banerjee is likely to visit Jhargram to attend a 'Bhasha Andolan' rally, from Rajbari More to Circus Maidan. Members of several indigenous communities, social organisations and intellectuals from Jangalmahal and West Midnapore are s ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 19 (PTI) Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta celebrated her 51st birthday in her ancestral village, Nandgarh, in neighbouring Haryana on Saturday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other top Union ministers and BJP leaders greeted Gupta, born on July 19, 1974, on her first birthday after becoming the chief minister in February. "Best wishes to Delhi Chief Minister, Smt. Rekha Gupta ji, on her birthday. Rising through the ranks, she has always remained active in serving Delhi. As Chi ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: TheOpposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Friday staged a silent protest at Janata Maidan under the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Bhubaneswar, demanding justice for the girl student of Fakir Mohan Autonomous College in Balasore, who died after self-immolation over alleged sexual harassment by one of faculty members and college authorities' apathy. Hundreds of BJD workers, leaders and women activists gathered in silent protest, with black cloths tied around their mouths, holding placards ...Read More >
Amaravathi (Andhra Pradesh) [India], July 19 (ANI): A Telugu Desam Parliamentary Party meeting was held at the Chief Minister's Camp Office under the leadership of Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, in which it was emphasised that the party will focus on issues concerning Andhra Pradesh in the upcoming Parliament session. Andhra Minister Nara Lokesh and several MPs attended the meeting. Also Read | Ganeshotsav Declared 'Rajya Mahotsav': Maharashtra Government Elevates Century-Old Festival to St ...Read More >
Patna (Bihar) [India], July 19 (ANI): Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor has sustained a soft tissue injury to his chest during a roadshow in Arrah, with doctors confirming that there is no bone injury and his CT scan report is normal. Dr Kamran of Mediversal Hospital said that Kishor is expected to recover in a day or two with rest, ice packing, and medication. Speaking to ANI on Friday, Dr Kamran said, He was standing at the door during a rally. The crowd swelled and collided with the door. ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Kolkata Traffic Police is facing a new challenge in managing vehicle parking for the upcoming Shahid Diwas rally on Monday, as persistent rainfall threatens to render designated parking fields unusable. The fresh spell of rain on Friday, with more occasional rain predicted even on Saturday, has left cops worried as they believe the Maidan area can be filled with slush.The traffic department, which initially planned to utilise various fields across the city for parking buses and cars ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 18 (PTI) The central drugs laboratories have found 55 samples manufactured by various firms in June to be "not of standard quality", health ministry officials said on Friday. Further, state drugs testing laboratories have identified 130 drugs samples as 'not of standard quality', they said. Also Read | Chhattisgarh: 6 Bodies of Naxals Recovered in Ongoing Encounter With Security Forces in Narayanpur. According to routine regulatory surveillance activity, the list of 'not of sta ...Read More >
Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Friday directed Kolkata Police to ensure that no procession for the July 21 rally takes place between 9 am and 11 am and that there is no traffic congestion on routes leading to the high court and other offices located within a five-kilometre radius in central Kolkata.Taking into account the submission of Trinamool counsel Biswaroop Bhattacharyya that the Martyrs' Day rally by Trinamool since 1994 may draw approximately 10 lakh people, Justice Tirthankar Ghosh imp ...Read More >
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 18 (ANI): Supporters of the Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar (NCP-SCP) sat on a protest outside Mumbai's Marine Drive Police Station in the early hours of Friday over the clash that broke out outside Maharashtra Assembly between supporters of BJP MLA Gopichand Padalkar and NCP-SCP leader Jitendra Awhad. NCP-SCP MLA Rohit Pawar and Jitendra Awhad were among the protestors who were demanding the release of activist Nitin Deshmukh, who was taken to ...Read More >
The West Bengal government has decided to keep an air ambulance in Digha during the return car festival of Lord Jagannath's Rath Yatra, an official said. The decision to keep an air ambulance in Digha during the 'Ulto Rath Yatra' (return car festival) of Lord Jagannath was taken at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the state secretariat on Wednesday, he said. ALSO READ: Bengal's Digha set to hold first Rath Yatra from new Jagannath temple "A helicopter has been asked to b ...Read More >
Thane: The city has witnessed a spike in tree fall incidents during the ongoing monsoon season, prompting the Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) to advise vehicle owners to avoid parking under precarious trees during heavy rainfall. On Wednesday, multiple incidents were reported in and around Ghantali Maidan Road, Naupada, where tree branches fell on parked vehicles, causing significant damage. On July 3, a large tree collapsed onto two shops, damaging their roofs. Fortunately, no casual ...Read More >
Mumbai: Senior BJP leader Ravindra Chavan is all set to become the next Maharashtra BJP chief as he filed his nomination for the post of party's state president on Monday. Mr. Chavan presented the nomination forms to Union Minister Kiran Rijiju, who has been appointed as a central observer for the elections by the BJP. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and outgoing party chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule were present on this occasion. With no other nomination being filed for the post, M ...Read More >
Kolkata: Kolkata experienced severe commute challenges on Monday as heavy rainfall since morning led to waterlogging of key arterial roads in central and north Kolkata. This was compounded by two disruptions in the city's lifeline -- the metro -- during Monday's rush hours. The first metro disruption was caused by water seepage into the tunnels, forcing the authorities to suspend services in the Maidan-Girish Park section for nearly two hours from 9.05am. Again, between 11.20am and 12.28pm, no t ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jun 30 (PTI) Metro Railway services were disrupted for around two hours in parts of the Blue Line during office hours on Monday as rainwater suddenly seeped into the tunnel between Central and Chandni Chawk stations. A Metro Railway Kolkata spokesperson said truncated services were run between Maidan and Kavi Subhas (New Garia) as well as Girish Park and Dakshineswar stations in Kavi Subhas-Dakshineswar corridor of the blue line during the period. "Due to the heavy downpour, parts of ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jun 30 (PTI) Metro Railway services were disrupted for around two hours in parts of the Blue Line during office hours on Monday as rainwater suddenly seeped into the tunnel between Central and Chandni Chawk stations. A Metro Railway Kolkata spokesperson said truncated services were run between Maidan and Kavi Subhas (New Garia) as well as Girish Park and Dakshineswar stations in Kavi Subhas-Dakshineswar corridor of the blue line during the period. Also Read | Maharashtra Chakka Jam on ...Read More >
Puri: Despite travel uncertainties due to recent conflicts in some parts of the world, people from Europe and elsewhere have reached Puri to witness the annual Ratha Yatra of the sibling deities.As non-Hindus are not allowed inside the 12th-century Jagannath Temple, the Ratha Yatra provides a rare opportunity for devotees across the world to see the deities in their full glory atop their majestic wooden chariots."Back home, we are surrounded by uncertainty and fear. But here, I found peace. I ca ...Read More >
Kolkata: This Rath Yatra, Lord Jagannath rode in on fresh wheels in Kolkata. Last year's chariot ride on the worn-out Boeing Jumbo Jet tyres was particularly bumpy, compounded by the steering mechanism failure that left the chariot stranded on the day of Rath Yatra. However, with the old tyres replaced by brand new ones from a fighter jet before this year's festival, the deities had a glitch-free journey on Friday.This is the 54th year that Iskcon has organised the Rath Yatra in Kolkata and the ...Read More >
New Delhi: Alleging "blatant misuse" of agencies to defame its leaders, AAP on Thursday questioned why the first information report filed against former Delhi ministers Saurabh Bharadwaj and Satyendar Jain was being kept under wraps and "selective" press notes were being leaked to the media.Bharadwaj, who is Delhi AAP convener, alleged that only two former ministers were named in the case without any reasonable cause while all the officers of the health and public works departments, who were act ...Read More >
Kolkata: Construction of a Jagannath temple in the heart of the city is underway at a feverish pitch to meet the Friday evening deadline when it must be ready to host Jagannath and his siblings, Balabhadra and Subhadra. But it is a temporary one. Right in the middle of the Maidan, a mega pandal -- inspired by the Jagannath temples at Puri and Digha -- is being built. This replica is also inspired by the Durga Puja pandals. It will be the Gundicha temple or 'Masir-bari', where the deities from th ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has intensified its efforts to make the state ganja-free, while also working to provide alternative livelihoods for tribal communities involved in illegal cannabis cultivation. This was informed by Excise Minister Prithviraj Harichandan on Thursday. "Joint operations by the Excise and Police departments have already resulted in the destruction of ganja crops across several districts this year," Harichandan told reporters after the flag-off ceremony of a walka ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: Now common people can also visit the stalls and galleries of 18 Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) that is going on at the Janata Maidan in the capital city of Odisha since last three days. This was said by Odisha's Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida on Friday. As per reports, Deputy CM Parida said that common people and students can now visit the stalls and galleries of the 18 Pravasi Bharatiya Divas at Janata Maidan in Bhubaneswar. She said that starting from today, they can visit J ...Read More >
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