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New Delhi, March 30 The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) staged a walkout from the Rajya Sabha on Monday, protesting alleged disparaging remarks made by BJP leader Nishikant Dubey against former Odisha Chief Minister Biju Patnaik.Shortly after the official papers were laid on the table, BJD leader Sasmit...

Patna, March 30 Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who was elected to the Rajya Sabha earlier this month, is set to resign from the state legislative council on Monday, sources from the JD(U) said.The JD(U) president was elected to the upper House of Parliament on March 16, and according to...

March 25, New Delhi – Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen submitted her government's resignation to King Frederik the Tenth on Wednesday, following a major defeat for her three-party coalition in the general election.Frederiksen's Social Democratic Party achieved its worst result since...

Hyderabad, March 25 Senior Congress leader and former minister T. Jeevan Reddy resigned from the party on Wednesday, saying he had no other choice after facing humiliation despite working selflessly for more than four decades.At a meeting with party workers and supporters in the town of...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 25 Former IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan, who resigned from service in 2019 due to the "denial of freedom of expression" to the people of Kashmir, alleged on Wednesday that the Centre has refused to process his resignation, thereby preventing him from contesting the...

New Delhi, March 25 The Kochi-Muziris Biennale, which brings together artists from around the world to the Kerala coastal town, has once again found itself in the spotlight following allegations of sexual harassment against co-founder Bose Krishnamachari.The sexual harassment complaint was...

New Delhi, March 25 A complaint of sexual harassment against artist Bose Krishnamachari was "one of the reasons" for his resignation from the post of president of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) in January, Kochi Biennale Foundation chairperson Venu Vasudevan said.However, the co-founder of...

Kolkata, March 24 – Even before submitting her nomination papers, Swapna Barman's candidature is in doubt – she is the Trinamool Congress candidate for the Rajganj Assembly seat in Jalpaiguri district, and a gold medallist at the Asian Games.Despite being a railway employee, Swapna is facing...

Kolkata, March 24 Ahead of the West Bengal Assembly polls, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday resigned from 23 offices and positions she held across departments and affiliated bodies, according to an official communication.In a letter from the state's home department, its counterparts...

Kolkata, March 24 Arjuna award-winning heptathlete Swapna Barman, whom the TMC has nominated as its candidate for the West Bengal assembly elections, sought the direction of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday for the railway authorities to accept her resignation from service so that she can...

New Delhi, March 24 HDFC Bank has appointed external law firms to independently examine the issues highlighted in the resignation letter by Atanu Chakraborty as a proactive step to ensure an objective and fact-based assessment.The bank's spokesperson said that appointing external law firms is...

New Delhi, March 24 Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla announced on Tuesday that the resignation of MP Pradyut Bordoloi from Assam, who had quit the Congress and joined the BJP, has been accepted.Bordoloi, who was elected to the Lok Sabha from Nagaon for two consecutive terms on a Congress ticket...

New Delhi, March 23 Shares of HDFC Bank have been on a downward trend, falling by nearly 12 per cent in three days, after its non-executive chairman Atanu Chakraborty abruptly resigned, citing differences over "values and ethics".On Monday, the heavyweight stock plummeted 4.70 per cent to...

Mumbai, March 23 Days after the surprise resignation of HDFC Bank non-executive chairman Atanu Chakraborty, capital markets regulator Sebi's chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey said on Monday that independent directors are expected to act responsibly and not make any insinuations.In comments...

March 23, New Delhi: The Central Working Committee of the Nepali Congress has rejected the resignation of its President, Gagan Kumar Thapa, who had offered to step down, taking moral responsibility for the party's election defeat.Thapa submitted his resignation to Vice-President Bishwaprakash...

Puducherry, March 22 AK Sai J Saravanankumar, a BJP functionary and former minister in the AINRC-led coalition government, has quit the national party, days after being denied a poll ticket to contest the April 9 Assembly elections.He said he has resigned from the party's primary membership...

Chandigarh, March 22 Police have booked former Punjab minister Laljit Singh Bhullar in connection with the suicide of a state warehousing corporation official, officials said on Sunday.Gagandeep Singh Randhawa, the district manager of the Punjab State Warehousing Corporation in Amritsar...

Mumbai, March 21 NCP chief and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar on Saturday said she has forwarded Rupali Chakankar's resignation as chairperson of the state women's commission to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for acceptance.Chakankar, a leader of the Nationalist Congress...

Chandigarh, March 21 Punjab Minister Laljit Singh Bhullar tendered his resignation from the state Cabinet on Saturday after Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann asked him to step down amid allegations of abetting the suicide of a state warehousing corporation official.Gagandeep Singh Randhawa, the...

Chandigarh, March 21 Punjab Cabinet Minister Laljit Singh Bhullar tendered his resignation from the state Cabinet on Saturday after Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann asked him to step down amid allegations of abetting the suicide of an official of the state warehousing corporation in Amritsar...