India’s defence exports have recorded a 30-fold quantum leap over the last 10 years from a mere Rs 686 crore in the financial year 2013-14 to a record Rs 21,083 crore in FY 2023-24, reflecting the global acceptability of Indian defence products and technologies.
The assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the Republican contender for President, is the latest incident in the stream of violence that has coursed through US body politic.
In a post on X, PM Modi said: "Deeply concerned by the attack on my friend, former President Donald Trump. Strongly condemn the incident. Violence has no place in politics and democracies."
For the first time in the Maha Kumbh, scheduled to be held in early 2025, saints and seers of different akharas will be given identity cards that will give them access to the Mela areas, said a top Akhara Parishad official.
US Presidential candidate Donald Trump has thanked the United States Secret Service and law enforcement for their prompt response to an assassination incident aimed at him that occurred at an election rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Former US President Donald Trump was shot at an election rally in a possible assassination attempt just a day before the Republican Party is scheduled to begin its convention to formally declare him its nominee for the White House.
Tripura's opposition CPI-M-led Left Front called a 12-hour statewide shutdown on Sunday to protest against the murder of a CPI-M candidate for the South Tripura Zilla Parishad in the August 8 three-tier Gram Panchayats elections.
In one of the biggest hauls this year, Mizoram Police arrested two drug peddlers including a woman and seized drugs worth over Rs 32.53 crore, police said on Saturday.
Amid the heated war of words between the Opposition and government over the remembrance of June 25 as ‘Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas’, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) launched a fresh broadside at the grand old party and enumerated many incidents of previous Congress regimes when the democracy was ‘murdered’.
In a high voltage electoral contest in Madhya Pradesh's Amarwara byelection, the ruling BJP won the bypoll with a margin of 3,552 votes. The result was announced on Saturday.
At Raiganj Assembly constituency in North Dinajpur District, Trinamool Congress candidate Krishna Kalyani has been declared elected by a margin of 50,007 votes, defeating the BJP candidate Manas Kumar Ghosh.
As ethnic tensions continued at tribal-dominated Ganda Twisa in Tripura’s Dhalai District on Saturday, authorities imposed prohibitory orders and deployed a huge contingent of security forces.
Former Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister, and Vice President of National Conference, Omar Abdullah, on Saturday, reacted to the amendment in transaction of business rules of J&K government announced by Ministry of Home Affairs.
Commenting on the arrest of former minister B Nagendra by the ED, Karnataka Home Minister, G Parameshwara said on Saturday that there was no issue with the ED investigating him, but the central agency’s action should not be politically-motivated.
The Ministry of Ports, Shipping, and Waterways will convene the State Maritime & Waterways Transport Committees’ meeting on Tuesday to hold discussions for the comprehensive development of maritime and waterways transport across India and expanding its reach to include the remaining states.
_Assembly_bypoll-min.jpg "In one-sided contest, AAP wins Punjab's Jalandhar (West) Assembly bypoll")
In a face-saving for the AAP government in Punjab led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, its nominee Mohinder Bhagat on Saturday won the Jalandhar (West) Assembly bypoll by 37,325 votes, defeating nearest rival and BJP candidate Sheetal Angural, whose defection from AAP necessitated the bypoll.
Addressing a press conference here in the conference hall of the DM office on Friday, the District Magistrate and also the District Election officer Dr Vishal Kumar said that the voting will begin from 7 AM and will continue till 4 Pm in Dukli, Old Agartala, Jirania, Mohanpur and Bamutia block in West Tripura district.
India's overall Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) score has shot up to 71 in 2023-24, compared to 66 in 2020-21 on the back of significant progress on eliminating poverty, providing decent work, economic growth, climate action and life on land, according to the NITI Aayog's SDG India Index released on Friday.
The Ministry of Rural Development has sanctioned 42 roads measuring 118.756 km with an estimated investment of Rs 114.32 crore to strengthen rural connectivity in Tripura.
Amid tightened security along the India-Bangladesh borders, 11 more Bangladeshi nationals were arrested in Tripura for illegal entry into India, officials said on Friday.
According to Barman, the BJP is resorting to violence because they are unable to win Panchayat seats through fair means. “They know they can't win a single Panchayat without resorting to violence,” he said.
Following the murder, police arrested seven individuals, including former club president Pradyut Dhar Chowdhury, Sushmita Sarkar, Uma Sarkar, Birchakra Ghosh, Sani Saha, Sandip Kar, and Rakesh Barman. Ghosh, Kar, and Rakesh Barman were apprehended in Kolkata.
With the issuance of the notification on Thursday, the process for the elections to the three-tier Gram Panchayats in Tripura has started with all parties busy selecting thousands of candidates and formulating strategies.
The Leader of Opposition and CPI(M) state secretary Jitendra Choudhury on Thursday discovered a scathing attack on the ruling BJP government in Tripura and alleged that since the formation of government, the BJP has been throttling the democratic rights of the people of this state.
In response to soaring prices of essential vegetables like potatoes and onions, exacerbated by transportation issues due to heavy rains in neighboring states, the Sadar Sub-Divisional Administration, Food Department and Weight Measurement Department launched a joint raid at Maharajganj market today.
