10+ hour, 1+ min ago   (170+ words) Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini and Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav on late Friday evening held a high-level review meeting in Gurugram to review measures for controlling air pollution and improving ambient air…...

10+ hour, 29+ min ago   (312+ words) New Delhi: State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation on Saturday commenced drilling its first deepwater exploratory well in the Mahanadi offshore basin, marking the start of an ambitious campaign to tap India’s deep and ultra-deepwater hydrocarbon resources. Minister of Petroleum…...

10+ hour, 17+ min ago   (236+ words) New Delhi: The New Delhi Municipal Council cleared around 27 metric tonnes of mixed waste from the Jantar Mantar protest site and surrounding areas on July 24, up from around 15 metric tonnes removed since midnight a day earlier, officials said on Saturday....

10+ hour, 13+ min ago   (214+ words) Kolkata: Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday proposed the construction of a new state Assembly building in New Town, urging Speaker Rathindranath Basu to begin preparations. He said the future legislature complex should be built on the lines of Parliament’s…...

10+ hour, 9+ min ago   (189+ words) Kolkata: Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday accused Trinamool Congress Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee of alleged irregularities in Sebaashray health camps, calling it a “big scam” and saying “no one can save the cheating nephew”. In the Assembly,…...

9+ hour, 21+ min ago   (401+ words) Kolkata: Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday said those responsible for attacking journalists during Friday’s violent protest over the alleged NEET paper leak would face the “strictest action” under the recently enacted Bengal Public Safety and Control of Anti-social…...

8+ hour, 41+ min ago   (698+ words) New Delhi: From becoming BJP’s go-to election manager for difficult states and handling key ministries in three tenures of the Modi government to resigning as Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan’s political career faced an unexpected jolt after flaring nationwide protests over…...

10+ hour, 10+ min ago   (375+ words) Kolkata: Claiming that Bengal received Rs 70,000 crore from the Centre since the BJP government came to power in May, Finance Minister Swapan Dasgupta on Saturday said the funds had helped prevent the state from going bankrupt. He expressed hope of…...

9+ hour, 6+ min ago   (364+ words) New Delhi: Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation on Saturday over the NEET paper leak controversy was not the sole instance when the Narendra Modi government yielded to sustained public or political pressure since coming to power in 2014. The first…...

10+ hour, 2+ min ago   (422+ words) KARGIL: Twenty-seven years after the Kargil war, in 1999, the cessation of the battles that took place on the frigid peaks of Kargil, marks its impact in terms of shaping India’s military readiness and strategy. Apart from being a historic achievement,…...