Farmer suicides: Kerala CM asks banks to stop loan recovery
Thiruvananthapuram: Following a series of suicides by debt-ridden farmers in Kerala, chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan Wednesday asked banks to halt recovery proceedings on loans taken by them in line with the moratorium announced by the government. In a meeting held with the representatives of the State Level Bankers’ Committee (SLBC) here, he said the state […]
Rahul Gandhi to talk to Yechury to resolve seat-sharing issue in Bengal: Cong
Kolkata: AICC president Rahul Gandhi will speak with CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury to resolve the impasse over seat-sharing between the two parties in West Bengal, Congress leaders said here Wednesday. This comes hours after state Congress president Somen Mitra and chairman of the state coordination committee Pradip Bhattacharya met Gandhi in New Delhi and […]
300 mobile phones were active at the site on bombing in Balakote: Rajnath
Says number of people killed in strike will be known 'today or tomorrow'
Dhubri (Assam): Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh Tuesday said the number of terrorists killed in the air strike by Indian Air Force on the training camp of Jaish-e-Mohammed in Pakistan’s Balakot would be known “today or tomorrow”. He claimed that National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) system had informed about presence of around 300 active mobile […]
PM sacrificed national interest, not Congress: Former defence minister A K Antony
New Delhi: Former defence minister A K Antony on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of sacrificing national interests and urged him “not to politicise” the armed forces. The Congress leader also accused the prime minister of “ignoring” the report of a committee that had said there were irregularities in the selection of L-1 in […]
Amit Shah’s visit expected to galvanise BJP in Telangana
Hyderabad: BJP’s preparations for the coming Lok Sabha elections would get a boost in Telangana with party Chief Amit Shah scheduled to address a meeting of activists at Nizamabad on Wednesday. Shah will attend the cluster meeting of BJP functionaries from Nizamabad, Adilabad, Karimnagar and Medak (Lok Sabha constituencies), BJP MLC N Ramachander Rao told […]
Cong lowering morale of security forces for petty political gains: BJP
New Delhi: Accusing the Congress of trying to lower the morale of security forces for “petty political gains”, the BJP on Tuesday said comments by the opposition party’s leaders on the Balakot air strike are part of a “conspiracy” that has the blessings of Rahul Gandhi. BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad seized on Congress leader […]