Sunday, 22 December 2024
Sunday, 22 December 2024
Bhupendra Patel will continue as the chief minister of Gujarat for a second straight term with the newly-elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs electing him as the leader of the legislative party during a meeting here on Saturday.
Gujarat caretaker Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Saturday met Governor Acharya Devvrat and staked a claim to form a government after he was elected as the leader of the BJP legislative party, two days after the party won a record mandate in the state elections.
Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu who headed the Congress campaign committee in Himachal Pradesh is likely to be the next chief minister, party sources said on Saturday.
The sources said the party high command has cleared the name of Sukhu, the 58-year-old MLA from Nadaun in Hamirpur district, for the top job.
Displaying insane power-hitting, Ishan Kishan smashed the fastest double-century in the history of ODI cricket -- a mind-boggling 210 off 131 balls -- and propelled India to 409 for eight against Bangladesh in the third game on Saturday.
While also becoming the youngest to get a double, Kishan overshadowed Virat Kohli's 91-ball 113, as India took Bangladesh bowlers to the cleaners in the final game of the three-match series.
Climate change is knocking on the doors and people in poorer nations are going to pay a "heavier price" for the degradation of the environment President Droupadi Murmu said on Saturday and asserted that society must now consider the environmental dimension of justice.
In her address at an event hosted here by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to mark Human Rights Day, she also made a fervent appeal that humans must learn to treat nature and biodiversity with dignity and respect.
An inspector of CoBRA battalion was injured on Saturday after an improvised explosive device (IED) went off during an anti-Maoist operation in a forest of Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district, police said.
The incident occurred in the forest between Rengrahatu and Tumbahaka villages under the Tonto Police Station limits when a joint team of CRPF, CoBRA, Jharkhand Jaguar and district armed police personnel was conducting the operation, DIG (Kolhan) Ajay Linda said.
Union Minister of Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday announced a new train service between Kashi and Tamil Nadu to commemorate the ongoing Kashi Tamil Sangamam being held here.
The Kashi Tamil Sangamam Express will be announced soon, he said.
A rocket-propelled grenade was fired at a police station in Punjab's border district of Tarn Taran, officials said on Saturday, with DGP Gaurav Yadav describing the attack as a “strategy of the neighbouring nation to bleed India by a thousand cuts”.
According to preliminary information, it is a military-grade hardware, the DGP said, suspecting it to have been smuggled from across the border.
Unakoti, the chiseled ‘Angkor Wat of the North-East’ region is vying for a UNESCO world heritage tag with both the government and ASI, working to preserve the series of ‘Shaivite rock’ sculptures in the northern part of the state.
Nestled in the Raghunandan hills, about 180 km from here, Unakoti is home to giant bas-relief sculptures of the 8-9th century carved out of a huge hill.
Veteran musician Elton John has decided to no longer use Twitter citing "misinformation" as the reason.
The singer-songwriter shared the news in a statement posted on the microblogging site.
"All my life I've tried to use music to bring people together. Yet it saddens me to see how misinformation is now being used to divide our world," John tweeted.
Higher reaches of Kashmir received fresh snowfall for the second day on Saturday even as the minimum temperature rose and stayed above the freezing point at most places in the Valley, officials said.
The middle and higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir received light to moderate snow, they said.
