NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has announced to support Opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha in the presidential elections scheduled for July 18. The decision was taken at the Political Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting held at the residence of party supremo and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday, sources said. AAP has 10 Rajya […]
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday lashed out strongly at the opposition for defaming Punjab for drugs said the state government under the leadership of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann is committed to annihilating the drug menace from Punjab. Addressing a press conference at party headquarter here, chief spokesperson Manwinder Singh Kang said, “The […]
NEW DELHI: The Delhi government on Tuesday urged the Centre to reduce the rate of GST on the alternatives to the banned single-use plastic and their raw materials. The Central government banned single-use plastic across the country from July 1. In a letter, Delhi environment minister Gopal Rai informed Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman about […]
NEW DELHI: Celebrating India’s 75th year of independence, the Delhi government on Monday kickstarted the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Football Tournament. The tournament was inaugurated by Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia at the Thyagaraj Stadium. Featuring 20 top football clubs of New Delhi, the tournament will see teams in the Under 18 and Under 22 […]
NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday met with the family members and relatives of two women pilgrims who died in the Amarnath cloudburst incident at their residence in Delhi. Beermati (55) and Prakashi (61) were relatives and lived in the same locality in Madangir. On Friday, their family members received information about […]
NEW DELHI: The Arvind Kejriwal Government, in a major move to curb air pollution in the national capital, has issued a directive to run a special drive on the Construction and Demolition (C&D) portal from July 15 to 30 which was launched in 2021. As of now, 600 sites have registered themselves on the portal. […]
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami inaugurated the first drone factory of the state in Roorkee in Haridwar district on Friday. The factory which is said to have a production capability of 150 drones per month, which include 50 drones for military usage, is set up by a private company under the centre’s ‘Make […]
CHANDIGARH: Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday expanded his cabinet, the first since he was sworn in on March 16, with the induction of five ministers and a mixed representation of old lieutenants and new warhorses including those close to him. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has included Sunam MLA Aman Arora, Amritsar South MLA Inderbir […]
NEW DELHI: As the temperature rose, there is a trickle of voters for the Rajinder Nagar by-poll on Thursday. However, the supporters of various parties kept the mood up in this central Delhi constituency as Aam Aadmi Party’s Durgesh Pathak is up against Bharatiya Janata Party’s Rajesh Bhatia while Congress fielded Prem Lata. The election […]
NEW DELHI: At a seemingly show of an anti-BJP front, in a throwback to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and in its run-up when the regional giants had stitched up a combine at the swearing-in of the JDS-Congress-BSP alliance in Karnataka, Mamata Banerjee convinced a galaxy of Opposition leaders to propose Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi’s […]