With the resignations of Akshay Patel and Jitu Chaudhary on June 3 and that of Brijesh Merja on June 5, the Congress strength in the 182-member House has been reduced to 65.
June 7, 2020The 15-month-old Congress government in Madhya Pradesh led by Kamal Nath was pushed to the brink after eight MLAs, including four Congress, two Bahujan Samaj Party, one Samajwadi Party and one independent, went missing from the state.
March 4, 2020The 230-member Madhya Pradesh Assembly has 114 Congress MLAs and 107 from BJP.
March 4, 2020The development comes as a BJP delegation comprising Girish Mahajan, Chandrakant Patil, Sudhir Mungantiwar and Ashish Shelar met Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari today to discuss the legal options.
November 7, 2019The shifting of the MLAs came after the 11-day monsoon session of the Karnataka legislature began on Friday where CM Kumaraswamy sought a floor test.
July 13, 2019Randhawa was ranked in the top 100 of the Official World Golf Ranking several times between 2004 and 2009.
December 26, 2018The audio clip, purportedly contained conversation between a confidante of BJP legislator B Sriramulu and a Dubai-based businessman discussing that at least 10 to 11 MLAs from the Congress and JD-S were ready to switch sides.
December 5, 2018The number of tigers in the wild plunged 97 per cent to 3,000 in the last century due to poaching and habitat loss. In 2010, heads of state and government from tiger range countries agreed to make efforts to double the tiger population in the world by 2022. Nepal conducted a tiger census in 2017, …
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August 5, 2018The man-elephant conflict has come to sharp focus here again with the death of a farmer and injuries to two others last week . Sixteen elephants die last year due to various reasons like poaching, electric shock and others while 20 people had died in elephant attacks. Crossing Gengutia overbridge on Brahmani river has become dangerous …
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January 23, 2018Tiger deaths related to poaching has reached an all-time high in India, according to a recent report by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Following it, the WWF has called upon tiger-range governments to crackdown on wildlife poaching and snaring that is threatening wildlife across Asia, especially the world’s remaining wild tigers, which number only around 3,900. “Snares are …
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August 7, 2017Four persons were arrested on Sunday and skin of a tiger and a leopard, worth lakhs in international market, were seized from them in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district, police said on Monday. Acting on a tip-off, police arrested Mahattam Dahivele (50), Puneet Ram Nagwanshi (45), Chainlal Yadav (25), and Santosh Dhruv (26) from Bhanuprtappur police station …
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May 29, 2017Without casting aspersions on the competence of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence and the Wildlife and Forest officials of the UP government, it is difficult to understand why the supposedly “crack” agency, the CBI is not taking the lead in the “busting” of an international racket in poaching and trading in the skins and body-parts …
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May 6, 2017Kaziranga National Park, known as a success story across the globe in the conservation of the one-horned rhinoceros, suddenly got shocking news from abroad stating that a tribal rights body has given a call for boycott of the world heritage site claiming that it has turned into a killing field of innocent tribal people in …
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March 12, 2017In a huge relief for Bollywood actor Salman Khan, a local court in Jodhpur on Wednesday acquitted him in an over 18-year-old Arms Act case. Chief Judicial Magistrate Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit had rserved the judgment for Wednesday after the hearing was completed on January 9. The case was registered in 1999. Salman Khan and several …
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January 18, 2017In a huge relief for Bollywood actor Salman Khan, a local court in Jodhpur on Wednesday acquitted him in an over 18-year-old Arms Act case. Chief Judicial Magistrate Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit had rserved the judgment for Wednesday after the hearing was completed on January 9. The case was registered in 1999. Salman Khan and several …
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January 18, 2017Assam govt considering handing over rhino poaching to NIA
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