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Chennai: Former Union finance minister P Chidambaram on Sunday said the reported move to add 6.5 lakh guest workers from Bihar in the electoral rolls of Tamil Nadu was alarming and illegal."The SIR (special intensive revision) exercise is getting curiouser and curiouser. While 65 lakh voters are in danger of being disenfranchised in Bihar, reports of adding 6.5 lakh persons as voters in Tamil Nadu is alarming and patently illegal," Chidambaram said in a social media post. He alleged the Election ...Read More >
Lucknow: Umar Ansari, the younger son of gangster-turned-politician late Mukhtar Ansari, was arrested by Ghazipur police from Darul Shafa area of Lucknow late Sunday night.The arrest was made following the registration of a criminal case against him for forgery in Ghazipur. He was taken into custody and transported to Ghazipur for further proceedings.Umar Ansari was booked for allegedly attempting to fraudulently reclaim a property that had been confiscated under the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and ...Read More >
Chennai: Former Union finance minister P Chidambaram on Sunday said the reported move to add 6.5 lakh guest workers from Bihar in the electoral rolls of Tamil Nadu was alarming and illegal."The SIR (special intensive revision) exercise is getting curiouser and curiouser. While 65 lakh voters are in danger of being disenfranchised in Bihar, reports of adding 6.5 lakh persons as voters in Tamil Nadu is alarming and patently illegal," Chidambaram said in a social media post. He alleged the Election ...Read More >
The ripple effects of the Election Commission's (EC) ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar are being felt in Tamil Nadu. As leaders of the DMK and its allies, including senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, alleged that the poll body had included migrant workers, especially those from Bihar, in voter lists in the state, the EC Sunday dismissed the "false information". "There is no need for political leaders to spread false information with respect to the SIR exerc ...Read More >
Guwahati, Aug 3 (PTI) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday alleged that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is anti-national and only supports the Muslims of Bangladesh and Pakistan. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an election campaign meeting in Bodoland Territorial Region, Sarma also claimed that the Congress does "not respect icons of Assam", like the Kamakhya temple and Mahapurush Srimanta Sankardeva. "Rahul Gandhi is an anti-India person. He is only with Bangladeshi and P ...Read More >
New Delhi, Aug 3 (PTI) The Election Commission on Sunday dismissed as false former Union minister P Chidambaram's claim about "adding" of 6.5 lakh voters in Tamil Nadu and said it was absurd to connect the ongoing special intensive revision in Bihar with Tamil Nadu, where SIR has not been rolled out yet. Raising questions on SIR, Chidambaram in his posts on X suggested that migrant workers were being registered as voters in Tamil Nadu and called it a gross interference in the right of the elect ...Read More >
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], August 3 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is closely monitoring the flood situation in Uttar Pradesh, issuing timely directives to ensure effective relief efforts. Acting on his instructions, state ministers are inspecting affected areas, while Relief Commissioner Bhanu Chandra Goswami informed that floods have impacted 37 tehsils and 402 villages, affecting 84,392 people. Of these, 47,906 have received assistance, and 2,759 animals have been ...Read More >
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram has accused the Election Commission of attempting to manipulate the electoral landscape of states. He alleges the Bihar voter revision exercise is disenfranchising voters while Tamil Nadu is illegally adding voters. Chidambaram asserts that these actions constitute an abuse of power that must be challenged through political and legal means. Amid the raging row over the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Bihar, senior Congress leader P Chidambar ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], August 3 (ANI): Refuting the claims made by senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the Election Commission of India on Sunday said that assertions made by the former finance minister on the inclusion of migrant voters in Tamil Nadu are misleading and baseless. The poll body responded to P Chidambaram claim that there has been an addition of approximately 6.5 lakh migrant workers to the electoral roll in Tamil Nadu. ECI pointed out that f ...Read More >
The Rajya Sabha was thrown into disarray as opposition factions rallied against the electoral rolls from Bihar, leading to an abrupt adjournment. The cancellation of both Zero Hour and Question Hour left members frustrated, as they sought urgent discussions regarding the Special Revision topic and demanded the Election Commission retract its initiative. Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned for the day on Friday amid vociferous protests by Opposition members over the issue of Special Revision ...Read More >
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claims that Rajbanshis and Matuas face torture in other states. She alleges Bengali speakers are unfairly targeted and labeled as foreigners. Banerjee criticizes the central government's policies regarding Bengali-speaking people. She questions the deletion of names from voter lists based on caste and religion. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday alleged that Rajbanshis and Matuas were subjected to torture and harassment in other sta ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jul 20 (PTI) Star Indian long jumper Murali Sreeshankar clinched the title with a leap of 7.75m at the Meeting Maia Cidade do Desporto in Maia, Portugal, a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze-level meet. The Asian Games silver medallist registered his best effort in the second round on Saturday night. Sreeshankar opened with a 7.63m jump, followed it up with his winning leap of 7.75m in the second round, and then recorded a solid 7.69m. His third attempt was a foul, while his fi ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 20 (PTI) With an eye on assembly polls next year, the TMC is gearing up to turn its annual Martyrs' Day rally into a powerful platform to sharpen its Bengali pride narrative and hit out at the BJP over the alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking migrants in saffron-ruled states. Set against the backdrop of rising tensions over the linguistic profiling and treatment of Bengali migrant workers in BJP-governed states such as Assam, Odisha, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Delhi, the July 21 ra ...Read More >
The story highlights the plight of migrant families, particularly children, working in brick kilns in Uttar Pradesh. Despite the promise of income, families often remain in poverty, with children missing out on education and other basic rights. The systemic exploitation keeps them trapped in a cycle of labor. In Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh district, countless migrant families toil in brick kilns, with many children like 12-year-old Rajni bearing the brunt of invisible labor. While parents strive fo ...Read More >
Bulandshahr/Aligarh, Jul 20 (PTI) In the scorching May heat, 12-year-old Rajni cradles her infant sister while stirring watery dal simmering in a soot-blackened aluminium pot outside her hut in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh district. Just as the thin lentils begin to look ready, she pours more water into the pot in a bid to stretch the modest meal, which otherwise wouldn't be enough to feed her family of eight. When asked how it tastes, Rajni responds in a defensive tone: "This is not bad... It's be ...Read More >
Jaipur, Jul 19 (PTI) A gang, allegedly involved in the adulteration of coal imported from the US, was busted by the Rajasthan Police, leading to the arrest of an individual, a senior official said on Saturday. The gang was adulterating high-quality coal (petcoke) imported from the US, cheating cement and steel factories out of crores of rupees through this illegal operation, Additional Director General of Police (Crime) Dinesh MN said. A team from the Crime Investigation Branch had been gatheri ...Read More >
Ranchi, Jul 19 (PTI) A migrant worker from Jharkhand was killed in a terrorist attack in Dosso region of Niger, a West African country, and efforts are on to bring his body, an official said on Saturday. Ganesh Karmali (39), a resident of Karipani village in Bokaro district, was killed in a cross-firing between police and terrorists on July 15 in Dosso region, around 130 km from Niger capital Niamey, he said. Bokaro labour superintendent Ranji Kumar said the process to bring his body has been ...Read More >
"Every political party from the state must think about the harassment of poor migrant labourers, who went out in search of livelihood and possess valid documents," Sen said. Echoing Sen, actor Ushashi Chakraborty said if someone from our state, who has shifted elsewhere for bread and butter, is harassed or punished just for speaking in Bengali, it is the most shocking and unfortunate thing. "All political parties should unite in voicing protest against such discrimination towards Bengalis," sh ...Read More >
Dimapur, Jul 18 (PTI) Two persons have died of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in Nagaland, a health department official said on Friday. Chief Medical Officer, Dimapur, Dr Yartenla Jamir, said that of the seven JE cases detected in Dimapur, Chumoukedima, and Niuland districts, two persons have died so far. She expressed concern over the rise in Japanese encephalitis (JE) cases in the three districts, especially during the monsoon season, which increases the risk of transmission. The Health departm ...Read More >
Durgapur, Jul 18 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday tore into the TMC, accusing it of risking Bengali 'ashmita' and national security by promoting infiltration for vote-bank politics and alleged that the Mamata Banerjee government has "crossed all limits" of appeasement politics. Modi, who launched projects worth Rs 5,400 crore in the state, across the oil and gas, power, rail, and road sectors, also positioned the BJP as the harbinger of a new Bengal, promising a clean break from the ...Read More >
Kolkata/Durgapur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a rally in Durgapur on Friday, from where he will inaugurate projects worth Rs 5,000 crore in Bankura, Purulia and Durgapur.The largest of these will be the Rs 1,950 crore piped natural gas (PNG) project in Bankura and Purulia to provide PNG in households, commercial establishments and industries.Modi will launch pollution control systems at the Durgapur Steel and Raghunathpur thermal power stations of Damodar Valley Corporation, worth ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 17 (PTI) Amid reports of detention and harassment of Bengali-speaking migrant workers in several BJP-ruled states, prominent personalities from West Bengal on Thursday strongly condemned the incidents and urged the states to take immediate corrective measures. Speaking to PTI, Actor Riddhi Sen termed the incidents "unfortunate" and urged all political parties in Bengal to show solidarity. "Every political party from the state must think about the harassment of poor migrant laboure ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 16 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will lead a protest march in Kolkata on Wednesday over alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking people in BJP-ruled states. The march will begin at College Square around 1 pm and conclude at Dharmatala in the heart of the city. Also Read | Mumbai Horror: 2 Teenage Male Friends Forced To Indulge in Unnatural Sex Over Money Dispute; Accused Filmed Act and Threatened Victims, Arrested. Senior leaders of the party, including TMC natio ...Read More >
Kolkata, Jul 16 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will lead a protest march in Kolkata on Wednesday over alleged harassment of Bengali-speaking people in BJP-ruled states. The march will begin at College Square around 1 pm and conclude at Dharmatala in the heart of the city. Senior leaders of the party, including TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, will join the march. With less than a year left for the assembly elections in West Bengal, the TMC is raising its pit ...Read More >
While a habeas corpus petition was filed on Monday before the Chhattisgarh High Court, the Kondagaon police told The Indian Express that the labourers had been freed on Monday evening Nine migrant labourers from West Bengal were detained by Kondagaon police in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region, allegedly because they had been staying in the district for several days without submitting documents to the local police. While a habeas corpus petition was filed on Monday before the Chhattisgarh High Cour ...Read More >
In recent weeks and months, several Bengali migrant workers on suspicion of being illegal Bangladeshi nationals have been detained, and some of them pushed into Bangladesh. Flagging the detention and deportation of migrant workers from West Bengal during drives against illegal Bangladeshi nationals in several states of the country, senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday urged President Droupadi Murmu to intervene. In a letter to the President, the former Congress MP wrote: "It ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Non-fossil fuel sources now make up half of India's power generation capacity of 484.8 GW (gigawatt), a milestone the country has achieved five years ahead of the target set under its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) committed in the Paris climate agreement."In a world seeking climate solutions India is showing the way," renewable energy minister Pralhad Joshi said in a post on X on Monday, crediting the progress to PM Modi's stewardship of "Bharat's green transformation tow ...Read More >
Kolkata: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee will hit the streets on Wednesday against the profiling of Bengali-speaking persons as Bangladeshis in BJP-governed states.The spate of arrests and detentions of Bengali-speaking migrants in Odisha, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Haryana and Delhi -- some of which are under the glare of Calcutta High Court -- has prompted TMC to rekindle the "Bengali identity and pride" issue that had derailed BJP's strong Hindutva campaign in the 2021 assembly polls.Wit ...Read More >
Kolkata: The detention of Bengali-speaking migrant labourers in BJP-ruled states and their profiling as suspected Bangladeshis has ignited a fresh political firestorm in West Bengal, with the ruling TMC reigniting its Bengali identity pitch that had blunted the BJP's Hindutva juggernaut in the 2021 Assembly polls. With months to go for the 2026 Assembly polls, what began as isolated complaints of harassment of migrant workers has now evolved into a full-blown political flashpoint. The Mamata Ba ...Read More >
Pilibhit (UP), Jul 15 (PTI) A day after a farmer was killed by a tiger in Fulhar village of Pilibhit district, forest officials said on Tuesday that their team was tracking the animal and it would be captured as soon as the conditions are favourable. Dayaram, 39, was mauled to death by the tiger in his field in Bari Phulhar village, the sixth tiger attack in two months in the region. According to the forest team engaged in tracking the tiger, the animal also attempted to attack its personnel, ...Read More >
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