New Delhi, Delhiites woke up to a cold Wednesday morning with the minimum temperature settling at 7.9 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season’s average. The relative humidity was 92 per cent at 8.30 am. There was a shallow fog in the morning and the maximum temperature is likely to settle around 22 degrees Celsius. The […]
New Delhi, In one of the worst fire accidents in the city, 43 people were killed after a massive blaze ripped through a four-storey building housing illegal manufacturing units in north Delhi’s Anaj Mandi area on Sunday morning, police and fire officials said Most of the people working in the units were fast asleep when […]
New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday termed the fire incident in Delhi’s Anaj Mandi area as extremely horrific. A massive fire swept through a factory in Anaj Mandi area of north Delhi on Sunday morning, leaving 43 labourers dead and many others injured, police said. “The fire in Delhi’s Anaj Mandi on Rani […]
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday termed the death of Unnao gangrape victim “extremely sad” and conveyed his condolences to the aggrieved family. “All the accused persons have been arrested. The case will be taken to a fast-track court, and punishment will be given,” he said in a statement issued here. The […]
Lucknow, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday questioned the Uttar Pradesh government as to why the Unnao gang rape victim was not given security keeping in mind a similar incident that took place earlier in the same district. In a tweet, she said: “Why the victim of Unnao gangrape case was not given […]
Mumbai, Former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis was on Sunday named Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly, while Congress MLA Nana Patole was elected Speaker of the House. Patole, 57, who was earlier in the day elected unopposed as the speaker after BJP’s Kisan Kathore withdrew from the fray, announced that Fadnavis is the […]
Bengaluru, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Sunday rubbished indications by Congress and JD(S) leaders of a possible post by-poll alliance in Karnataka, saying such talks don’t have any value. He also asserted that BJP’s candidates in all the 15 assembly constituencies going for bypolls would be victorious. “People will give them the answer, […]
Baghdad, Iraq’s parliament approved the resignation of the embattled cabinet on Sunday, after two months of violent unrest that have left more than 420 people dead and thousands mourning them in nationwide marches. Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi said Friday he would submit his resignation to parliament following a spike in the death toll among […]
New Delhi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said in Lok Sabha on Thursday that the BJP condemns any philosophy which describes Nathuram Godse as a patriot. He also said that Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy was and remains relevant today and described him as a guide (marg darshak). His comments came after Congress and other opposition members raked […]
New Delhi, Calling BJP MP Pragya Thakur a “terrorist”, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said her remarks hailing Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse in the Lok Sabha marked a sad day in the history of Parliament. Thakur created a controversy on Wednesday with her remark in the Lower House of Parliament during DMK member […]