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Haridwar: Acharya Balkrishna, who has been continuously working to give Ayurveda global recognition and to preserve India's knowledge tradition, has been honoured with another international award. He was conferred with the 'Vishwa Ayurveda Ratna' under the Earth Award and High Impact Sustainability Dialogue 2026, organised by the Net Green Foundation. The prestigious ceremony was held at UNESCO House in New Delhi, where several eminent personalities from India and abroad were present. Although ...Read More >
New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, along with Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, has directed the Chief Secretary, Director General of Police, Kolkata Police Commissioner, and other senior officials to ensure that elections in West Bengal are conducted in a free, fair, transparent, and impartial manner. The instructions also apply to Divisional Commissioners, ADGPs, IGs, District Magistrates, Commissioners of Police, SSPs, and SPs. The Election Comm ...Read More >
New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, along with Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, has directed the Chief Secretary, Director General of Police, Kolkata Police Commissioner, and other senior officials to ensure that elections in West Bengal are conducted in a free, fair, transparent, and impartial manner. The instructions also apply to Divisional Commissioners, ADGPs, IGs, District Magistrates, Commissioners of Police, SSPs, and SPs. The Election Comm ...Read More >
Azamgarh (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 4 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Panchayati Raj Minister OP Rajbhar criticised the Malda hostage crisis, where seven judicial officers were held by villagers, stating that the situation in West Bengal is "worse than the Samajwadi Party's era of hooliganism" in Uttar Pradesh. "The people who went to Bengal are unhappy. The condition of people in Bengal is even worse than the hooliganism of the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh," said Rajbhar. Earlier, a major politi ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 4 (ANI): Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, along with Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, has directed the Chief Secretary, Director General of Police, Kolkata Police Commissioner, and other senior officials to ensure that elections in West Bengal are conducted in a free, fair, transparent, and impartial manner. The instructions also apply to Divisional Commissioners, ADGPs, IGs, District Magistrates, Commissioners of Police, SSPs, and ...Read More >
Lucknow, April 3 (UNI) To fulfill Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's vision of "Viksit Uttar Pradesh @2047," the State Tourism Department has released its roadmap to achieve the goal of a $6 trillion economy by 2047. As part of this roadmap, the department has set an ambitious target to establish the state as the spiritual and cultural capital of the world by 2047. In this direction, the state aims to progressively increase its contribution to tourism-based Gross Value Added (GVA) from the curre ...Read More >
Lucknow: Under Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's vision of "Viksit Uttar Pradesh @2047," the Tourism Department has released its roadmap to achieve the goal of a $6 trillion economy by 2047. As part of this roadmap, the department has set an ambitious target to establish the state as the spiritual and cultural capital of the world by 2047. In this direction, the state aims to progressively increase its contribution to tourism-based Gross Value Added (GVA) from the current 9.2% to 11% by 2029-30, ...Read More >
Guwahati, April 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Friday asserted that the people of Assam have "decided to re-elect the NDA" to safeguard the state's culture, identity and future, while launching a sharp attack on the Congress during a massive rally in Dudhnoi in Goalpara district. Addressing a charged gathering, HM Shah accused the Congress of exploiting the deaths of Assamese youth for political gains and fostering instability in the state for decades. In co ...Read More >
Begusarai (Bihar) [India], April 3 (ANI): Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Friday launched a sharp attack on West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, saying that she has only done appeasement politics in her 15-year tenure. Speaking to reporters, Singh mentioned that Mamata Banerjee neither talks about poverty nor unemployment in front of the public, adding that he wants to tell the Supreme Court that West Bengal cannot host impartial elections, since the TMC supremo is in power. "Mamata Banerjee should ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI): Russia's First Deputy Chairman Denis Manturov reaffirmed that Russian companies have the capacity to steadily increase supplies of oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the Indian market amid the energy crisis due to the conflict in West Asia, underlining deepening energy cooperation between the two countries during his official visit to the country. According to a statement issued by the Russian Embassy in India on Telegram on Thursday, Manturov highlighted t ...Read More >
Ranchi (Jharkhand) [India], April 3 (ANI): BJP spokesperson Pratul Shahdeo on Friday strongly criticised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the recent Malda incident, where judicial officers were held hostage for nine hours allegedly by Trinamool Congress supporters. Speaking to ANI, Shahdeo said, "In Malda, judicial officers were confined for nine hours by Trinamool Congress supporters under the directions of Mamata Banerjee. During this time, the officers were denied basic facili ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI): The Election Commission of India on Friday stated that Advocate Mofakkarul Islam, the mastermind of the Kaliyachak Murshidabad case, has been arrested at the Bagdogra Airport when he was trying to flee. This comes after seven judicial officers, including three women, were held hostage by villagers in Malda district on Wednesday. Also Read | Airline Seat Policy Rollback: Govt Suspends 60% Free Seat Selection on Flights After FIA and Akasa Air Raise Concerns. T ...Read More >
Malda (West Bengal) [India], April 3 (ANI): ADG North Bengal K Jayaraman on Friday said 35 people have been arrested till now in the Malda hostage incident. "We detained Mofakkarul Islam from Bagdogra airport, for instigating people. He was going to his residence in Ithar. We will not allow any such kind of activity. Will definitely probe if this was pre-planned or not. After this incident, we have given CAPF to judicial officers. So far, 35 people have been arrested," ADG said. Jayaraman reit ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI): The Election Commission of India on Friday stated that Advocate Mofakkarul Islam, the mastermind of the Kaliyachak Murshidabad case, has been arrested at the Bagdogra Airport when he was trying to flee. This comes after seven judicial officers, including three women, were held hostage by villagers in Malda district on Wednesday. The standoff was triggered by mass deletions from the electoral rolls under the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process. The ...Read More >
Patna (Bihar) [India], April 3 (ANI): Bihar minister Ram Kripal Yadav on Friday hit out at the West Bengal government over the Malda hostage crisis, stating that the people will remove the government that disregards law and constitution in the upcoming elections. Speaking to ANI, Yadav said that the investigation of the case has been handed over to the National Investigation Agency, which will ensure the central control and greater safety of the officials. Also Read | Raghav Chadha Releases Vi ...Read More >
Patna (Bihar) [India], April 3 (ANI): Bihar minister Ram Kripal Yadav on Friday hit out at the West Bengal government over the Malda hostage crisis, stating that the people will remove the government that disregards law and constitution in the upcoming elections. Speaking to ANI, Yadav said that the investigation of the case has been handed over to the National Investigation Agency, which will ensure the central control and greater safety of the officials. "The Malda case involving violence ag ...Read More >
Paschim Medinipur (West Bengal) [India], April 3 (ANI): BJP candidate from Kharagpur Sadar assembly constituency, Dilip Ghosh, on Friday, asserted that there is no law and order in West Bengal after the Malda hostage crisis and demanded strict punishment for the accused individuals. Speaking to ANI, he said that the judges have been facing obstructions in doing their duty in the State. "We have been saying from the beginning that there is no legal system in Bengal. Judges are being surrounded ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI): Former Chief Protocol and Joint Director of Election Commission of India, Mohd Amin, has criticised the West Bengal government over the Malda hostage crisis, describing the matter as "shameless", asserting that such incidents should be condemned. Speaking to ANI on Thursday, Amin stated that West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee was earlier criticising the seven-phase election schedule and now opposing the Special Intensive Revision. He called the SIR a legal process ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 3 (ANI): Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Thursday handed over the investigation of West Bengal's Malda district to the NIA, where seven judicial officers, including three women, were held hostage by villagers on April 1. Following a Supreme Court order, CEC Kumar transferred the probe, with the NIA team set to arrive in West Bengal on Friday. The ECI, in a letter issued on April 2, referred to the top court's order and directed the NIA to probe the inciden ...Read More >
Arambag (West Bengal) [India], April 3 (ANI): BJP MP Biplab Kumar Deb on Thursday criticised West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, claiming that she disregards the Supreme Court, High Court, and law and order. Speaking on the Malda hostage crisis, Deb called it "very unfortunate" and attributed it to provocation by the TMC. "They don't understand the Supreme Court, nor the High Court, nor law and order, nor the dignity of the Chief Minister... The Election Commission is an independent body; it works ...Read More >
Kozhikode (Keralam) [India], April 2 (ANI): BJP MP Tejasvi Surya on Thursday criticised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the incident of seven judicial officers held "hostage" by villagers in Malda district over alleged mass deletions from electoral rolls in Special Intensive Revision (SIR), calling it "the last nail on the TMC coffin". Speaking with ANI, he held Trinamool Congress (TMC) responsible for the incident and condemned it for deliberately creating a situation of "lawle ...Read More >
Malda (West Bengal) [India], April 2 (ANI): A major political storm erupted in West Bengal after seven judicial officers, including three women, were held hostage by villagers in Malda district on April 1, triggering sharp exchanges between the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC). The incident, linked to alleged mass deletions from electoral rolls under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, drew strong reactions from BJP leaders, with Union Mi ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 2 (ANI): Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday termed the Malda incident a "symptom of systemic collapse," alleging a breakdown of law and order in West Bengal after seven judicial officers were reportedly held hostage for over nine hours, alongside violence and displacement in the Malda-Murshidabad region. In a post on X, Dharmendra wrote, "Malda is not an aberration--it is a symptom of systemic collapse under @MamataOfficial and AITCOfficial. Seven judicial o ...Read More >
Malda (West Bengal) [India], April 2 (ANI): A major political storm erupted in West Bengal after seven judicial officers, including three women, were held hostage by villagers in Malda district on April 1, triggering sharp exchanges between the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC). The incident, linked to alleged mass deletions from electoral rolls under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, drew strong reactions from BJP leaders, with Union Mi ...Read More >
Sagardighi (West Bengal) [India], April 2 (ANI): As West Bengal assembly elections near, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of conspiring to get the upcoming polls cancelled and impose President's rule in the state. Addressing a poll rally in Sagardighi, CM Banerjee claimed that the BJP was behind the incident in Malda where seven judicial officers were taken hostage by villagers on Wednesday. Also Read | Sikkim State Lottery Result Today 6 PM L ...Read More >
Sagardighi (West Bengal) [India], April 2 (ANI): As West Bengal assembly elections near, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of conspiring to get the upcoming polls cancelled and impose President's rule in the state. Addressing a poll rally in Sagardighi, CM Banerjee claimed that the BJP was behind the incident in Malda where seven judicial officers were taken hostage by villagers on Wednesday. "Administration is not under my control right now. L ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], March 30 (ANI): The Indian delegation of the Modern Pythian Games successfully concluded its participation in the 1st Youth Delphic Games for SCO Member Nations in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, bringing pride to the country with a bronze medal in the Folk Singing category. This achievement reflects India's growing presence on global cultural platforms and highlights the rising importance of arts, culture, and traditional heritage in international cooperation, according to a press rele ...Read More >
New Delhi, Mar 2 (PTI) Amazon India on Monday announced 'Zero Referral fee' on more than 12.5 crore products, a move, the ecommerce giant said, aims to accelerate growth for lakhs of sellers across the country. Building on last year's fee revision, the company has expanded zero referral fees coverage more than 10-times from 1.2 crore products in 2025 to over 12.5 crore products priced under Rs 1,000 across 1,800-plus categories, the company said in a release. In addition, Amazon has reduced Ea ...Read More >
NEW DELHI - Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand will not say whether or not Canada sees U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran as a violation of international law. The minister faced repeated questions about the conflict while taking part in a media scrum in New Delhi, filling in for Prime Minister Mark Carney who abruptly cancelled his scheduled meeting with reporters. The United States and Israel launched a major attack on Iran Saturday that killed the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iranian o ...Read More >
NEW DELHI -- Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand will not say whether or not Canada sees U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran as a violation of international law. The minister faced repeated questions about the conflict while taking part in a media scrum in New Delhi, filling in for Prime Minister Mark Carney who abruptly cancelled his scheduled meeting with reporters. The United States and Israel launched a major attack on Iran Saturday that killed the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iranian ...Read More >
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