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NEW DELHI: Chhattisgarh voted on November 7 and 17, witnessing a combined turnout of 76.31 per cent across the two phases. In December 2018, the state marked a historic moment by electing its first non-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in 15 years. The Congress secured a commanding victory with 68 seats in the 90-member assembly. […]

NEW DELHI: Vote counting commenced for the consequential state assembly elections conducted in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Telangana this November. Preliminary indicators suggest that the Congress is in the lead in Telangana, surpassing the incumbent BRS party. Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao is leading in Gajwel but is trailing in Kamareddy. In Rajasthan, Chief […]

NEW DELHI: During a meeting hosted by the National Disaster Management Authority, Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain, a member of the NDMA, revealed that the entire operation to rescue the 41 trapped workers would require three to five minutes individually. Hasnain told The New Indian, “Unless anything unforeseen happens, it will take only three to […]

In the 2018 Rajasthan Assembly elections, Congress secured 99 seats out of 200, continuing the curse that no party could win the same seat again while BJP could only manage to win 73 seats.

On Wednesday, Yoga guru and primary proprietor of Ayurveda juggernaut, Patanjali, Baba Ramdev called modern medical practitioners the ones doing “real false propaganda” following the Supreme Court’s notice directing him to pay Rs 1 crore per each “misleading claim”. “A few doctors have formed a gang to spread false propaganda against Yoga and the benefits […]

Before his arrest, Amritpal sat in front of a Bhindarawale's photo and conducted a 'sangat' his the slain militant's native village Rode.

CBI carried out searches at Oxfam India's offices on Wednesday, and registered a case on Thursday based on a complaint filed by the Union home ministry.

Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (PMEAC), a non-Constitutional, non-permanent and independent body constituted to give economic advice to the government of India, has challenged the research methodology of scoring countries in three major global reports: Freedom in the World Index, Varieties of Democracy (V-DEM) Indices, and Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index. PMEAC […]

The decision of a group of female cops to take out some time from their hectic duty schedule for a quick dance session inside the police control room seems to have not gone down well with senior police officials in Dehradun, Uttarakhand. Senior district police officers have taken a stern view of the dance video […]

Even as the UP police continues to crackdown on illegal properties worth crores of dreaded criminal and former Samajwadi Party MP Atique Ahmed, he showered praises on Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during his latest court hearing in Lucknow. He was brought before the CBI court in relation to n the 2005 Raju Pal murder case. […]