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Tonight on 21st June on International Yoga Day in Ahmedabad a Yoga programme was held by Yog Guru Baba Ramdev at GMDC ground. BJP Bharatiya Janta Party national president Amit Shah and Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani also attended the programme. Yoga is a physical, mental, and/or spiritual practice attributed mostly to India. The Indian […]
Former Calcutta High Court judge C S Karnan was today lodged in a Kolkata jail even as he failed to get any last-minute reprieve from the Supreme Court after being on the run for six weeks. The 62-year-old Karnan, who was arrested in Tamil Nadu last evening, earned the dubious distinction of being the first […]
Today BJP Bharatiya Janta Party national president Amit Shah visits Junagadh. Shah is on 2 days Gujarat visit. BJP president was accompanied by Gujarat BJP President Jitu Vaghani and Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani. Shah said that people of Saurashtra has not forgotten the days when during UPA rule, women had to travel upto 5 kms […]
India is planning to organise a meet of startups of the South Asian region for exchange of new ideas and promoting interaction among them. Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also sought views of Indian startups to hold this programme. “I will be working towards having a SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) country […]
A witness told a special court hearing the 2002 Naroda Gam riot case here today that he did not see former Gujarat minister Mayaben Kodnani, Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi or VHP leader Jaideep Patel in the mob that killed 11 persons on February 28, 2002. Dhaval Patel, a defence witness, testified before the court […]
Nearly 150 cases of chikungunya have been reported in Delhi this year, with 9 of them being recorded this month, even as authorities gear up to combat the outbreak of vector-borne diseases. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had last month directed the authorities to make a comprehensive plan in the matter, while the civic bodies are […]
The NDA’s presidential nominee and Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind today said he will meet leaders of major political parties and seek their support to emerge as a ‘consensus candidate’ for the coveted post. He met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah after he arrived here in the evening from Patna following […]
The death toll today rose to 163 in Bangladesh’s landslides as five more persons, including three children, were killed due to incessant rains in two districts. The fresh landslides occurred in the wee hours in Khagrachhari and Moulvibazar districts. Three children died in Bangladesh’s south-eastern Khagrachhari district, Dhaka Tribune reported. “The incident took place due […]
A public library, two panchayat offices and a police vehicle were set ablaze at Kalimpong today, though Darjeeling, the hub of the GJM-led agitation for a separate Gorkhaland, remained incident-free. Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) activists took out a protest march carrying the bodies of two party supporters who, they alleged, were killed in police firing […]
The Supreme Court today allowed domestic drug manufacturer Cipla, which recently arrived at a settlement with Swiss pharma major Roche over a lung cancer drug, to withdraw its petition on the patent row. The apex court was informed that the two companies on May 30 had arrived at a settlement before the Delhi High Court […]
