Mamata Banerjee-led government in West Bengal faces a big jolt as its key leaders quit her party to join Bhartiya Janata Party. Recently several leaders left Trinamool Congress’ left the party as the rift between the party members was widening. This comes as a big shock as strategically happening much before the upcoming State Assembly elections which is dampener to the TMC. Recently, many leader of the Trinamool Congress who are meant to heavyweights have quit deserted the party. TMC MLA Mihir Goswami, from Coochbehar Dakshin, had walked out of the party on Thursday evening and speculations are now rife…
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https://twitter.com/vinod_bansal/status/1331867317865566208?s=20 Hindu sentiments were once again hurt when several Hindu god and goddesses idols were found destroyed in Kailash Vihar Pansari in Begumpur, Delhi. The police are investigating into the horrific incident that occurred at Shiv Shakti temple in Begumpur on November 24. All the idols The modus operandi was that all the idols were destroyed in such a way that the head was separated from the torso by the miscreants. Goddess Lakshmi Narayana, Krishna-Radha, Durga Mata, Bagalamukhi Mata Lord Shiva, Goddess Parvati, Lord Ganesha and Kartikeya were the idols that were desecrated. The trustee of the temple when the…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to arrive in Hyderabad on Saturday to review the status of India’s first indigenous Covid-19 vaccine — Covaxin — being developed by the city-based Bharat Biotech. According to sources, the Prime Minister is visiting Hyderabad as a part of his three-city tour, which includes Ahmedabad and Pune, to take stock of the ongoing Covid-19 vaccine development work in the country. Prior to arriving in Hyderabad, Modi will visit the facilities of Zydus Cadila in Ahmedabad, where ZyCoV-D is being developed, and Serum Institute of India in Pune where the vaccine being developed by…
NASA astronaut Victor Glover parted with a spectacular view of the planet Earth from space. In his first release of a post which consists of a breath-taking view of the space. His first video from space offers a stunning view of the Blue Planet and, according to the astronaut, it doesn’t do justice to the real thing. “The video just doesn’t do it justice – It is pretty amazing though,” says Astronaut Glover. “My first video from space!” he wrote while sharing the clip on Twitter. “Looking at the Earth through the window of Dragon Resilience. The scale of detail…
A MiG-29K trainer of the Indian Navy met with an accident on Thursday evening while operating at the high seas. As of now, Navy Officials have said, one pilot has been rescued while another is still missing. The incident took place at around 5 pm in the Arabian Sea, they said. The Navy has deployed surveillance aircraft and ships to locate the missing pilot. A high-level inquiry has been ordered to investigate the incident, the officials sai
The Bhartiya Janata Party released its poll manifesto for the Greater Hyderabad Civic polls. Through the manifesto the party promised to people that their government would ensure that free electricity would be given to poor families. As people are facing psychological problems created by the pandemic, the party in its manifesto promised that people would be give the Covid vaccine as per the suggestions from the Centre. It said an effective plan would be prepared to control the spread of COVID-19 in the city which would enable everyone to get tested for the virus free of cost. The manifesto also…
Delhi recorded 5,475 fresh COVID-19 cases in a day as the number of RT-PCR tests crossed the 28,000-mark, while 91 more fatalities pushed the city’s death count to 8,811 today, authorities said. The positivity rate was 8.65 per cent today. It was 8.49 per cent on Wednesday. As many as 63,266 tests, including 28,897 RT-PCR ones — the highest till date for the city — and 34,369 rapid antigen tests, were conducted the previous day for the detection of COVID-19, according to a bulletin issued by the Delhi health department on Thursday. The city had recorded its highest single-day spike…
The CBI on Tuesday submitted its written opposition to RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s bail plea in Jharkhand supreme court within the fodder scam case associated with Dumka treasury saying that he has not served one day sentence in reference to it. Lalu Prasad’s lawyers claimed that he has completed half his sentence in judicial custody within the case. Prasad, the previous Bihar chief minister, was sentenced on March 24, 2018 to 14-years rigorous imprisonment by CBI special judge Shivpal Singh within the Dumka treasury embezzlement case of fodder scam. The former Bihar chief minister, convicted in four fodder scam cases,…
Australia coach Justin Langer on Wednesday said he has great respect for the formidable Indian bowling line-up but his team’s batsmen became familiar enough with their tactics to be ready for the challenge they’re going to present within the upcoming series. India and Australia will clash during a full series, starting with the limited-overs leg, from November 27 here. Langer said the competition would likely be an exciting one because of the 2 teams being evenly-matched. “Well, we all know Jasprit Bumrah, world-class bowler, (Mohammed) Shami, specialized opening combination. we’ve great respect for that and guys have seen a good…
BJP MLA Vijay Kumar Sinha was on Wednesday elected as Speaker of the Bihar assembly by a majority vote. Sinha, who was the candidate of the ruling NDA, got 126 votes as against 114 polled in favour of RJDs Awadh Bihari Chaudhary who was fielded by the opposition Grand Alliance. The voting was marred by rumpus caused by opposition members who protested presence of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on the bottom of the House on the ground that he was a member of the legislature . The chair, however, overruled the objection saying being leader of the house the chief…