Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday rapped the Central government for scrapping 25 December, Christmas Day, as a national holiday as she inaugurated the annual Kolkata Christmas Festival at Allen Park, Park Street.
An FIR has been lodged against twelve persons by a resident of Hill View area under Hirapur Police Station.
Six Bangladeshi nationals, including two minors, present in India illegally, and four Indian touts were arrested by Hanshkhali police under the Ranaghat Police District in Nadia.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah is set to arrive at Bagdogra Airport late tonight (Thursday) to attend the 61st Raising Day celebrations of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) at its Frontier Headquarters in Ranidanga, Siliguri
Demanding Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s apology for his remarks ‘insulting’ BR Ambedkar, the ruling DMK and its key ally, the VCK, held separate demonstrations and rail blockade agitations across Tamil Nadu.
However, Congress in the state is not ready to come to terms to accept (digest) the phenomenal accomplishments attained by our government, Deputy Chief Minister Dr Prem Chand Bairwa and former LoP, Rajasthan state assembly, Rajendra Singh Rathore said.
The AAP, on Thursday, held protests against the remark of Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Dr. B R Ambedkar across 70 assembly segments of the national capital.
The BJP and Congress traded charges over a scuffle between lawmakers of the two parties on the Parliament premises earlier on Thursday.
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the states falling in the National Capital Region to constitute teams of officials from police and revenue departments to ensure strict enforcing of the measures under Stage 4 of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) to combat and curb air-pollution in the national capital.
The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) will convert many of its hitherto under-utilized community centres/halls as libraries and reading rooms, an official statement said on Thursday.
