Bharat Ratna recipient count goes up to 53. Check full list herePrime Minister Narendra Modi announced that former prime ministers P V Narasimha Rao and Charan Singh, along with green revolution pioneer ...
09 Feb, 2024, 05.38 PM IST
Bharat Ratna for L K Advani, Karpoori Thakur to take recipient count to 50Bharat Ratna awarded to L K Advani and Karpoori Thakur, taking the total recipients to 50. Previous recipients include Pranab Mukherjee, Bh...
06 Feb, 2024, 01.16 PM IST
Maninder Singh, SS Das among notable names in contention for senior selectors' postsWhile there are no written rules, BCCI normally believes in convention of equal distribution and hence five junior and five senior selector...
28 Nov, 2022, 09.34 PM IST
CMP soon, party will get 1 more ministry: Bihar CongressThe state Congress will get one more ministerial berth in the Nitish cabinet as an agreement has been reached to allot the party three mini...
18 Aug, 2022, 12.07 AM IST
It's now turn of Congress' Bihar unit to highlight riftWith Nitish Kumar’s JDU already on the prowl to poach the disgruntled Congress MLAs, the AICC is treading cautiously and is trying to negot...
16 Jul, 2021, 12.17 AM IST
Unfortunate that Chauri Chaura martyrs were not given due place in pages of history: PM ModiPM Modi was speaking after inaugurating via video conference the centenary celebrations of the historic Chauri Chaura incident, a landmark ...
04 Feb, 2021, 02.38 PM IST
BJD candidates lead over BJP rivals in Odisha bypollsAs per early trends, BJD's Bijay Shankar Das was leading over BJP candidate Rajkishore Behera by 1,078 votes in Tirtol seat in Jagatsinghpu...
10 Nov, 2020, 10.52 AM IST
Odisha's 'Rasagola' or West Bengal's 'Rasogolla': Which one wins the battle of flavoursBengalis believe that the invention of Rasogolla had much to do with Westerners specially the Portuguese.
16 Nov, 2019, 01.45 PM IST
Odisha Election Results: BJD sweeps Assembly polls, Naveen Patnaik set to become CM for fifth termPatnaik’s Biju Janata Dal won all the six Lok Sabha seats in 2014.
23 May, 2019, 11.33 PM IST
Justice Madan M Das to head Chitfund Inquiry CommissionKeeping in view the urgency of appointment of the chairperson of the inquiry commission, the government selected Justice Das for the post.
04 Feb, 2015, 07.38 PM IST
Madan Mohan Malviya and Atal Bihari Vajpayee 44th and 45th Bharat Ratna recipientsEducationist Malviya and former PM Vajpayee are the 44th and 45th personalities who have been conferred with country's civilian award Bhara...
24 Dec, 2014, 02.27 PM IST
Damodar Valley Corporation to shut Durgapur unit, 900 employees will lose jobsChairman of DVC, Andrew WK Langstieh, has directed the executive director (operations) of the firm to prepare an action plan.
21 Oct, 2014, 11.47 AM IST
- LS passes bill to provide IIT status to 8 institutes, BHU
Sibal said the country needed 1,000 more universities and 45,000 more colleges in the next decade to meet the requirement of higher educati...
24 Mar, 2011, 06.25 PM IST
Oldest litigant begins Ayodhya truce effortThree days after the Ayodhya title suit verdict was pronounced by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court, Mohammed Hashim Ansari, th...
04 Oct, 2010, 08.06 AM IST
- Advani nightwatchman for Sushma in Lok Sabha
BJP appeared to be close to putting its succession plans in place, with former Union minister Sushma Swaraj set to don role of the party's ...
03 Jun, 2009, 02.46 AM IST
- Advani talks BJP's future with RSS chief
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha L K Advani met RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in an attempt to prepare the road map for the BJP's future.
02 Jun, 2009, 05.21 AM IST
- RSS, BJP leaders to meet to chart party's future course
The RSS is expected to take another long, hard look at the functioning of the party during a crucial meeting scheduled to begin in Mangalor...
23 Jun, 2006, 12.41 AM IST