BJP’s Barabanki MP opts out of Lok Sabha race after ‘obscene’ video surfaces

March 04, 2024 08:41 pm | Updated 09:53 pm IST - Lucknow Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha member from Barabanki Upendra Singh Rawat, whose alleged obscene video went viral on Monday, declared that he will not contest any election in public life until proven innocent, and urged party president …...Read More

BC Declaration of TDP-JSP combine will help strengthen the communities in all spheres, says Atchannaidu

March 04, 2024 08:41 pm | Updated 08:41 pm IST - VIJAYAWADA Alleging that social justice has eluded the Backward Classes (BCs) in Andhra Pradesh during the YSR Congress Partry (YSRCP) rule, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) State president K. Atchannaidu has said that the BC Declaration, scheduled to be released …...Read More

Indian Oil, TMI e2E Academy bag award for programme on customer service

March 04, 2024 08:41 pm | Updated 08:41 pm IST - HYDERABAD Indian Oil Corporation and TMI Group company TMI e2E Academy have won Brandon Hall Gold award for the ‘Seva Shoor Veer Learning and Development’ programme. Improving customer service at retail outlets of the oil company was the aim …...Read More

SBI moves Supreme Court seeking extension of time to disclose details of electoral bonds

March 04, 2024 08:41 pm | Updated 09:45 pm IST - New Delhi State Bank of India on March 4 moved the Supreme Court seeking an extension of time till June 30 to disclose details of each electoral bond encashed by political parties. In its verdict last month, the Supreme …...Read More

BJP distributes gas connections to poor women in Venkatagiri

March 04, 2024 08:40 pm | Updated 08:41 pm IST - TIRUPATI Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders expressed confidence that the ‘pro-people initiatives’ of the NDA government at the Centre will help the party retain power in the upcoming general elections. At a programme organised at Balayapalle mandal in Venkatagiri …...Read More

US sanctions Zimbabwe president for alleged human rights abuses

The United States on Monday sanctioned Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa, its first lady and other government officials for their alleged involvement in corruption and human rights abuses. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on three entities and 11 people, including the Mnangagwas, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga …...Read More

South Carolina police fatally shoot showerhead-wielding double homicide suspect

A man who had beaten his mother and girlfriend to death inside a burning house and who reportedly told relatives he wanted to be killed by police was fatally shot by eight officers as he held a chrome shower head they thought was a gun, according to a police department …...Read More

State to bring in new residential schools policy soon, says CM

March 04, 2024 08:37 pm | Updated 08:37 pm IST - HYDERABAD Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has announced that the State government has resolved to usher in a new residential educational schools policy. Accordingly, an integrated residential school campus, housing SC, ST, BC and Minority residential schools under one …...Read More

ED accuses Salman Khurshid’s wife Louise Khurshid and two others of money laundering

March 04, 2024 08:37 pm | Updated 08:37 pm IST - NEW DELHI The Enforcement Directorate on March 4 alleged that the then Dr. Zakir Husain Memorial Trust’s project director, Louise Khurshid, the wife of senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid, and two others allegedly laundered ₹71.50 lakh. The Lucknow Zonal …...Read More

New HDUDA chairman takes charge, promises development

March 04, 2024 08:36 pm | Updated 08:36 pm IST - HUBBALLI Shakir Sanadi, who took charge as chairman of Hubballi Dharwad Urban Development Authority (HDUDA) in Hubballi on Monday, has promised to take up projects towards development of the twin cities and development of new residential layouts in the …...Read More