West Bengal BJP President Sukanta Majumdar took stock of the preparations ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's public meeting in Arambagh, Hoogly, on Friday.
The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has given its nod for the amendment of the Second Schedule to the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, to specify the royalty rates for 12 critical and strategic minerals.
The dismantling work of the Old Road Over Bridge (ROB) at Sion was postponed until further instructions in view of the ongoing Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) exams, said the Central Railway authorities.
Samajwadi Party (SP) of Andhra Pradesh staged a protest in Amravathi today against the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) notice to the party Chief and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav askng him to appear as a witness in a case linked to illegal sand mining.
Calling urbanisation as one of the defining trends of the 21st century, Union Housing Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday that two-thirds of the world's population will live in cities by 2050, according to an official statement from the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs.
Former India head coach Ravi Shastri backed Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan as they were excluded from the Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) central contracts on Wednesday amid the row around their non-participation in the ongoing Ranji Trophy.
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, has initiated a comprehensive beautification and maintenance project for the central and other parks situated in the East Ansari Nagar Campus.
Congress MLA BK Hariprasad defended his 'Pakistan enemy country for the BJP, not for us', statement on Thursday, saying that the BJP is playing dirty tricks and asked the central government to declare Pakistan an enemy state.
The general secretary of Punjab Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, Sarwan Singh Pandher, said that the last rites of Shubkaran Singh, who died during the protests, will be performed on Thursday as the police have lodged an FIR in the case.
Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the Uttarakhand Chief Minister will attend the BJP Central Election Committee's (CEC) meeting to be held in the national capital on Thursday evening.
Unit 3 of the Mumbai Crime Branch nabbed the 45-year-old near Mumbai Central Railway Station on Wednesday. Crime Branch officials recovered a country-made pistol and live cartridges from the accused.