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Patna, March 27 Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who was recently elected to the Rajya Sabha, is likely to resign from the state legislative council soon, his close aide Sanjay Kumar Jha indicated on Friday.Jha, the national working president of the Janata Dal (United), however, did not...

Mumbai, March 16 Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde left for Delhi on Monday evening, sources said.However, they did not specify the reason for his visit. It is also unclear whether Shinde will meet with top BJP officials.Shinde is expected to meet with Shiv Sena MPs in the...

New Delhi, March 16 – The Delhi Secretariat came alive on Monday with the sound of the shehnai as members of Anjuman Sair-e-Gul Faroshan extended a traditional welcome to Chief Minister Rekha Gupta as part of the ‘Phool Walon Ki Sair’ celebrations.The Chief Minister said the festival...

New Delhi/Guwahati, March 16 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday ordered the transfer and posting of five IAS officers as District Election Officers (DEOs) in Assam as part of measures to ensure the smooth conduct of the upcoming Assembly elections in the state.In an official...

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Chennai, March 16 The Election Commission is closely monitoring the financial transactions of political parties with the help of 23 enforcement agencies and will also track large volumes of online transactions, Tamil Nadu CEO Archana Patnaik said on Monday.Stating that the model code of...

New Delhi, March 16 Copper prices fell by Rs 7.50 to Rs 1,201 per kilogram in futures trading on Monday, due to weak demand in the domestic spot market.On the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), copper for April delivery declined by Rs 7.50, or 0.62 percent, to Rs 1,201 per kg in a trading volume...

Srinagar, March 16. Alert Indian Army troops braved extremely harsh weather, including heavy snowfall, to rescue 214 stranded passengers from Sinthan Pass in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Monday."After heavy snowfall disrupted movement at Sinthan Pass, which connects the Valley with the...

Asia’s largest Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden in Srinagar will open for visitors on March 16, officials said. Director Floriculture Mathoora Masoom said the garden will showcase about 1.8 million tulips of 70–75 varieties overlooking Dal Lake.Srinagar, March 10: The Indira Gandhi Memorial...

Amaravati, March 7 Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu will unveil a 58-foot bronze statue of Potti Sriramulu here on March 16, marking the leader's 125th birth anniversary.Sriramulu had undertaken an indefinite fast demanding the creation of a separate Telugu state from the then...

Mumbai, March 5 Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said on Thursday that unfavourable political calculations and the candidature of NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar were the key reasons why the party could not field Priyanka Chaturvedi again for the Rajya Sabha election.Raut said that while there...

Hyderabad, March 5 Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Vem Narender Reddy filed their nominations on Thursday as candidates for the Congress party for two seats in the Rajya Sabha from Telangana.They submitted their nomination papers to the returning officer, Upender Reddy, at the Telangana Assembly...

In Bhubaneswar, on March 3, the BJP announced that Manmohan Samal, its Odisha unit president, and Sujeet Kumar, an MP, would be its candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections on March 16. They also announced their support for Dilip Ray, a former Union minister and party leader, who will contest as...

Mumbai, March 2 The upcoming Rajya Sabha elections have emerged as a crucial test for the MVA's unity, as both Shiv Sena (UBT) and Congress on Monday staked claim to the alliance's lone winnable seat while insisting that internal talks are ongoing.Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray denied...

Bhubaneswar, February 28 BJD president Naveen Patnaik announced senior party leader Dr Santrupt Misra and doctor Datteswar Hota as its candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections on Saturday.Misra had unsuccessfully contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Cuttack and currently serves...

Bhubaneswar, February 26 The Election Commission of India formally issued a notification on Thursday for the election of four Rajya Sabha seats in Odisha, with polling scheduled for March 16.According to the notification, the last date for filing nominations is March 5, while scrutiny of...

Shimla, February 24 Despite receiving the highest amount of Revenue Deficit Grant (RDG), the previous BJP-led government in Himachal Pradesh did not reduce its debt and liabilities, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said on Tuesday, accusing the saffron party of "playing politics" over the...

Hyderabad, February 23 The Telangana Cabinet on Monday decided to hold the budget session of the Legislative Assembly from March 16.Speaking to reporters late on Monday after a Cabinet meeting, Information and Public Relations Minister P Srinivas Reddy said the session would begin with the...

Mumbai, February 19 Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray virtually staked his party's claim to the seats the Maha Vikas Aghadi can win in the upcoming Rajya Sabha and Maharashtra legislative council elections, citing their numbers in the state assembly.Thackeray said there have been no...

The State Government announced on Tuesday that the GHADC elections would be held on April 10.The schedule for the GHADC election was approved by the State Cabinet on Tuesday.Cabinet Minister, Wailadmiki Shylla, while speaking to the media, informed that the date for calling constituents to...