Actor and Member of Parliament, Sumalatha Ambareesh has announced that she will be joining the Bharatiya Janata Party and won't contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
In a statement, a PTI spokesperson called the postponement of Senate polls for not administering the oath to members on reserved seats in the provincial assembly "ridiculous" as the heads of state were also elected without members on reserved seats in national and provincial assemblies.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police over a college student dying by suicide allegedly due to sexual harassment by a faculty member, an official said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday interacted with BJP karyakartas (members) from Uttar Pradesh via the NaMo App, calling them the face of the party as they stay connected with the voters all round the year.
Notably, all six Rajya Sabha candidates from Bihar were elected unopposed to the Upper House of Parliament comprising two members each from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), along with one each from Janata Dal (United) and Congress.
After being the newest member of New Zealand's T20I squad, Tim Robinson said that he still couldn't 'believe' that the right-handed batter was being called into the team.
The notice sent through Advocate Satya Ranjan Swain on behalf of Praveen Shankar Kapoor stated that Atishi deliberately and with malicious intent made statements that are not only false, scandalous, concocted and illusionary, but defamatory, to harm the reputation of the BJP and its membe
Besides, Gangopadhyay, Singh, BJP District General Secretary Abhijit Barman, and executive member of West Bengal's Cooch Behar district Tapas Das are among those who have been granted security protection by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF).
Seven people who suffocated to death after a fire broke out at a clothing shop in the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district belonged to the same family, informed the police on Wednesday.
The ruling coalition on Tuesday swept the Senate elections for 19 seats while the polling was postponed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa over a dispute in the swearing-in of Opposition members elected to reserved seats, Dawn reported.
Seven members of a gang of fraudsters were arrested by Delhi Police for cheating gullible victims on the pretext of helping them in the release of maturity amount of insurance policies on Tuesday. They had cheated approx Rs 6 cores from 10 victims.