Attempt to abduct Padma Shri awardee Phoolbasan Bai Yadav foiled in Chhattisgarh
Phoolbasan Bai Yadav was honoured with the Padma Shri in 2012 for her work in the SHG movement.
Phoolbasan Bai Yadav was honoured with the Padma Shri in 2012 for her work in the SHG movement.
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday paid homage to Buddha’s sacred relics and offered prayers, highlighting the spiritual and cultural significance of the exposition.
Setting in motion the process to select chief ministers in the states it swept on Monday — West Bengal and Assam — the BJP on Tuesday appointed Union Home Minister Amit Shah as the central observer for West Bengal and Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda for Assam.
Even as the DMK finds it difficult to digest the defeat at the hands of a debutant, Vijay, in the just-concluded assembly election, party president MK Stalin, in a bid to lift the morale of the rank and file of the party pointed out that the loss was of a meagre 3.52 per cent of votes and that the Dravidian major would bounce back to power.
A potential political shift in West Bengal could reshape the state’s power sector, with brokerage JM Financial Institutional Securities flagging far-reaching implications when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will come to power following the recent assembly elections.
With the TMC losing elections and, thus, majority in Assembly, Banerjee’s continuation in office would be against the constitutional requirement of holding the CM’s post.
In his closing remarks, Nadda stated that the deliberations have imparted renewed momentum to the India-Japan health partnership and reaffirmed the shared commitment to deepen cooperation across key priority areas.
BJP National President Nitin Nabin, along with party’s Delhi unit chief Virendra Sachdeva and CM Rekha Gupta, on Tuesday offered prayers at the revered Maa Kali Bari Temple in C R Park, expressing gratitude for the party’s poll win in Bengal, Assam, and Puducherry.
The smartphone market in India is likely to decline 10-12 per cent in shipments in the Calendar Year 2026 with the affordable segment to be the worst affected, said data released by CyberMedia Research (CMR).
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday cautioned against what he termed “petty political reactions” to the recent Assembly election outcomes in West Bengal and Assam, warning that the developments pointed to a deeper challenge facing India’s democratic institutions.
