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BHUBANESWAR: Police on Friday arrested four persons, including the husband of a former sarpanch, for allegedly looting Rs 27 lakh from Indian Bank's Mandhatapur branch in Nayagarh district. The accused have been identified as Sagar Moharana (26) of Jagatsinghpur, Pramod Nayak (21) of Daspalla, Purna Chandra Prusty (50), husband of former sarpanch of Jemadeipur panchayat of Nayagarh Sadar, and Kartika Barad (50) of Itamati. While Prusty and Barad were involved in plotting the robbery, six others ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: Chief minister A Revanth Reddy Friday exuded confidence Congress would win 15 of the 17 Lok Sabha seats in Telangana in the 2029 general elections. This, he said, will boost the party's chances of forming the govt at the Centre.Revanth also said Congress would win 100 assembly seats in the state in the next election.Addressing the Samajika Nyaya Samara Bheri meeting of the party workers at LB Stadium in the city, which was attended by AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, Revanth said: " ...Read More >
Gandhinagar (Gujarat) [India], July 4 (ANI): Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel urged newly elected sarpanchs and gram panchayat members to ensure visible cleanliness in villages. He announced that under PM Narendra Modi's vision of "Swachhta Tya Prabhuta (Cleanliness is next to Godliness)," a mass movement for cleanliness has been launched across villages, towns, and cities. Also Read | PM Narendra Modi Conferred With 'The Order of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago' During Ceremonial Event at Pre ...Read More >
New Delhi: In a setback to Bollywood actor Jacqueline Fernandez, Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed her plea to end criminal proceedings in a Rs 200-crore money laundering case involving Sukesh Chandrasekhar, currently imprisoned for fraud.Justice Anish Dayal dismissed the plea that also sought to quash the chargesheet by the Enforcement Directorate and proceedings pending before the special court under the stringent Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) against her and others.A copy of ...Read More >
Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh): In his first visit since becoming the state BJP chief, Hemant Khandelwal was felicitated at a programme organised by the party's local unit at the Kalidas Sanskrit Academy premises on Thursday. Elected unopposed, yet Khandelwal was given a lukewarm welcome by the concerned managers, and even the party workers' presence was thin. The party was sharing the venue, which was already booked for the Gundecha Temple of ISKCON by the Maharaja Vikramaditya Shodhpeeth. Addressing ...Read More >
Hyderabad, July 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge will be addressing a meeting of the party's grassroots workers in Hyderabad on Friday and will also review the performance of the Revanth Reddy-led Telangana government during the last 18 months. Kharge, who landed in the state on Thursday, will be addressing 15,000 grassroots workers at the LB Stadium as part of the "Jai Bapu, Jai Bhim, Jai Samvidhan" movement. He will also have meetings with the party's state leadership ...Read More >
Lucknow, July 3 (UNI) The Yogi Adityanath government has taken significant steps to strengthen water conservation and land management efforts across rural Uttar Pradesh. As part of this initiative, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has constituted Watershed Committees at the Gram Panchayat level, in line with the guidelines of the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana 2.0. These committees will function under the leadership of the Gram Pradhan to ensure effective conservation, management, and de ...Read More >
Morena (MP), July 2 (PTI) Unidentified persons allegedly looted cash and jewellery from the house of a woman sarpanch by holding her and family members hostage at gunpoint in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh, police said on Wednesday. Hours after the crime, police arrested one of the robbers and raided the houses of relatives of two suspects. Four armed robbers barged into the house of Alapur village sarpanch Manju Yadav at around 1.30 am on Tuesday. Yadav, her husband Rajkumar Yadav, and the ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jul 1 (PTI) Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday announced a special investigation team (SIT), headed by a senior woman officer, to probe the alleged sexual harassment of a minor girl at a coaching class in Beed. NCP legislator Chetan Tupe raised the issue through a point of information in the state assembly. Also Read | Was Cockroach Really Found in Srisailam Temple Laddu? Andhra Pradesh Government Fact-Checks Fake Video Going Viral. Tupe said two people had been a ...Read More >
Bhopal: A search by the Meghalaya police in a flat of father-in-law of Shalom James, an Indore-based property dealer arrested on charges of destroying evidence in the killing of Raja Raghuvamsi allegedly by his wife Sonam during their honeymoon in Shillong last month, in Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh, has yielded a laptop, a pen drive, jewelry and incriminating documents, believed to be belonging to the couple, sources said on Monday. The search was conducted in the flat of Manoj Gupta, father-in-la ...Read More >
Former Maharashtra minister Dhananjay Munde on Monday said a Special Investigation Team (SIT) should probe the Beed coaching class sexual harassment case. Former Maharashtra minister Dhananjay Munde on Monday said a Special Investigation Team (SIT) should probe the Beed coaching class sexual harassment case. Talking to media in Beed, Dhananjay Munde alleged that one of the two persons arrested in the case had links with NCP (SP) MLA Sandip Kshirsagar. The latter denied the allegations, as per ...Read More >
Pune: The political landscape in Beed is once again heating up -- this time over the alleged sexual harassment of a NEET aspirant (17) by two teachers of a tuition centre.Though the Beed city police have arrested the two teachers after a case under Pocso (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act) was registered against them, former minister and NCP politician Dhananjay Munde has accused local NCP (SP) MLA Sandeep Kshirsagar of trying to shield the duo. Munde wants chief minister Devendra ...Read More >
Bhopal, June 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Madhya Pradesh Congress on Monday announced to stage a massive protest on June 8 for an FIR registered against state unit chief Jitu Patwari, which has been lodged against him (Patwari) in Ashoknagar district. Alleging that the FIR against Patwari was registered to hide the failure district administration and deteriorating law and order in the state, the Congress claimed the BJP attempts to suppress the opposition's voice. "We will wait till June 7, and if the ...Read More >
Gurgaon: Gangster Kaushal Chaudhary, currently lodged in Bhondsi jail, has claimed responsibility for the murder of rival gangster Jaggu Bhagwanpuria's mother in Punjab's Batala. The attack, which occurred on Thursday night, also claimed the life of a key aide of Bhagwanpuria who handled operations for his gang.Harjit Kaur, Bhagwanpuria's mother, and Karanvir, son of an assistant sub-inspector, were returning from a court hearing in Tarn Taran when unidentified assailants on motorcycles pumped b ...Read More >
Bhopal, June 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Congress and BJP leaders, on Saturday, engaged in a political war of wards after an FIR was registered against the Madhya Pradesh Congress President Jitu Patwari for allegedly forcing two persons to make false claims against a local villager in Orchha earlier this week. A case against Patwari was registered at the Mungaoli police station in Ashoknagar district on Friday night, following the outcome of inquiry into an alleged incident of assault and forcibly ...Read More >
ASHOKNAGAR: Madhya Pradesh Police, on Saturday, filed a case against state Congress President Jitendra Patwari for bribing a villager to make false allegations about being fed human excreta, Superintendent of Police (SP) Vineet Kumar Jain said. According to police, Jitendra (Jitu) Patwari asked villager Gajraj Lodhi to make allegations against Mungaoli village Sarpanch. SP Vineet Kumar Jain told ANI, "Yesterday, Gajraj Lodhi met the collector of Ashoknagar personally and handed him an affidavit ...Read More >
Actor Raghuvir Yadav, who plays Brij Bhushan Dubey in "Panchayat", has decoded the real reason behind "Panchayat" being so loved. He said it's India, in its truest form as it showcases everyday stories of small towns, told with so much heart. Raghubir said: "It's incredible how Panchayat has resonated with everyone -- children, young adults, elders -- across villages, cities, and even overseas. When I was in Australia for a play, people of all ages came up to talk about the show." "At first, I ...Read More >
Chandigarh: Jailed gangster Jaggu Bhagwanpuria's mother and his cousin were shot dead in Batala town of Punjab's Gurdaspur district Thursday night. The sensational incident took place at around 9.30 pm on busy Qadian road in Batala when unidentified assailants opened fire at gangster's mother Harjit Kaur, a former sarpanch of village Bhagwanpur, and another person, identified as Karanvir Singh, said to be a her nephew, accompanying her in a car. Police said that the assailants fired multiple r ...Read More >
Gandhinagar (Gujarat) [India], June 27 (ANI): Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel stated that education is the foundational pillar of a developed society and a progressive state. He emphasised that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has always given special importance to schools, teachers, and education. On the second day of the Kanya Kelavani Mahotsav and Shala Praveshotsav 2025, coinciding with the auspicious occasion of Ashadhi Beej, Chief Minister Patel visited the Primary School in Pundrasan ...Read More >
THANE: In a dramatic rescue operation spanning two states, a four-year-old girl abducted from a construction site in Badlapur West on Tuesday afternoon was safely traced and rescued within 24 hours from a remote village in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara district. The child, who lived at the site with her parents and two siblings, was lured away while her mother was at work. The family, originally from another state, resides at the site where her father and uncle are employed as labourers. Her moth ...Read More >
Nalgonda: Makthal MLA Vakiti Srihari, one of the three newly inducted ministers in the Telangana government following Sunday's Cabinet expansion, has risen through the ranks, from serving as a sarpanch, to becoming a state minister. Contesting on a Congress ticket, Srihari was elected as MLA in the 2023 Assembly elections. He defeated his opponent, BRS candidate Chittem Rammohan Reddy, by a margin of 17,525 votes. Srihari secured 74,917 votes, accounting for 39.99 per cent of the total vote sha ...Read More >
Chennai: Hours before Union home minister Amit Shah was to arrive in Madurai, Thuglak editor and an associate of Shah, S Gurumurthy on Saturday met PMK founder S Ramadoss. The PMK leader, however, ruled out the possibility of meeting Amit Shah during his two-day visit to Tamil Nadu.Gurumurthy met Ramadoss for the second time amid reported tension within PMK regarding alliance strategies and insistence by Anbumani Ramadoss to remain party president. The hour-long meeting took place at the T Nagar ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to attend the first anniversary celebration of the Mohan Charan Majhi-led BJP govt in Odisha on June 20. This event will mark the end of the nine-day celebration starting June 12, when Majhi took oath last year.This anniversary marks a milestone for BJP, which defied expectations by forming a govt in Odisha for the first time, challenging the predictions of many political analysts. For Majhi, this occasion is not only a testament to his leadership ...Read More >
Lucknow, Jun 6 (PTI) The Allahabad High Court on Friday ordered a stay on any coercive action, including demolition, against more than two dozen madrasas in Shravasti district of Uttar Pradesh. The Lucknow bench passed the interim order on petitions filed by Madrasa Moinul Islam Qasmiya Samiti and 26 other individual madrasas, all in Shravasti district. Also Read | Indus Waters Treaty Suspension: Desperate Pakistan Wrote 4 Letters to India, Pleading Reinstatement of IWT, Say Sources. Justice ...Read More >
Pune: The dissolution of NCP's entire Beed district unit, the resignation of former Pune city unit chief Deepak Mankar, and the expulsion of Rajendra Hagawane, who was arrested in connection with his daughter-in-law's death, will be on the agenda for discussions when deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar-led party celebrates its 26th anniversary in Pune on June 10.Confirming this, state NCP president Sunil Tatkare on Friday said it is quite unfortunate that some office bearers were found to be involv ...Read More >
Mumbai, Feb 4 (PTI) Activist Anjali Damania on Tuesday alleged that there was a Rs 88 crore scam in the agriculture department when NCP leader Dhananjay Munde held the portfolio in the previous Mahayuti coalition government in Maharashtra. Munde, currently a minister for Food and Civil Supplies, termed her allegations as "baseless" and politically motivated. Despite the Union government's 2016 directive to transfer money directly to farmers' bank accounts under Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT), t ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jan 14 (PTI) Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Tuesday described the murder of sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh in Beed district as a "brutal" act and asserted those involved in the crime would face stringent punishment. Deshmukh, sarpanch of Massajog village, was abducted, tortured and murdered on December 9 for attempting to stop an extortion bid on an energy firm helming a windmill project in Beed district in central Maharashtra, some 380 kilometres from Mumbai. Police have re ...Read More >
Mumbai, Jan 13 (PTI) NCP (SP) leader Jitendra Awhad on Monday slammed the Maharashtra government over the probe into the murder of Beed sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh and asserted people were afraid to lodge complaints against Walmik Karad, an accused in the extortion case linked to the killing. Deshmukh was abducted, tortured and murdered on December 9 for attempting to stop an extortion bid on an energy firm helming a windmill project in Beed district, some 380 kilometres from here. Police have r ...Read More >
A statement issued by the Bijapur police said the incident took place in Somnapalli village under Farsegarh Police Station area of the district. According to the statement, the Maoists dragged 35-year-old Kudiyaam Mado out of his house and strangled him to death. Mado was the district vice president of Bharatiya Janata Kisan Morcha -the farmers' unit of the BJP. Police said that they have also recovered a pamphlet issued by the banned CPI (Maoist)'s Bijapur National Park Area Committee, in whi ...Read More >
NCP (SP) leader Supriya Sule is consulting experts on Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) following Maharashtra's assembly poll results. The opposition questions EVM credibility after the Mahayuti coalition's significant win. Sule advocates for ballot papers, citing other countries' adoption, and will announce a final decision soon.NCP (SP) leader Supriya Sule on Saturday said the opinion of experts is being sought over the "EVM issue" in the wake of the Maharashtra assembly polls' mandate as she ...Read More >
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