Two held as Indian fishing boat with narcotics seized

Two held as Indian fishing boat with narcotics seized

Tuesday, 30 April 2024 | Pioneer News Service | New Delhi

In a coordinated effort, Indian Coast Guard (ICG) and the Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) seized an Indian fishing boat in the Arabian Sea carrying 173 kg of narcotics and arrested two perpetrators on board, Defence Ministry said here on Monday. Acting on specific and credible intelligence provided by ATS Gujarat, ICG...

Job scam: SC retains HC order cancelling 26k school jobs

Tuesday, 30 April 2024 | Saugar Sengupta | Kolkata

The Bengal Government on Monday suffered a big blow with the Supreme Court refusing to put a stay on the Calcutta High Court order cancelling appointments of 25,753 school employees including teachers and non-teaching staff. The only respite the TMC Government got is that the Apex Court stayed a CBI probe...

BJP leader hurt in TMC attack

Tuesday, 30 April 2024 | Pioneer News Service | Kolkata

While the first two phases of elections remained by far peaceful, violence tended to creep in as electioneering entered parts of South Bengal with a Trinamool Congress worker getting killed in a factional fight in Baguati area of northern Kolkata and a BJP worker getting grievously attacked by the TMC...

Education Ministry asks NCERT to review, update textbooks on yearly basis

Tuesday, 30 April 2024 | PNS | New Delhi

The Ministry of Education (MoE) has asked the NCERT to conduct a review of its textbooks and update them on yearly basis, according to sources. So far, there has been no mandate on the frequency of updating NCERT textbooks. However, the National Council of Educational Research and Training has been...

Mamata takes swipe at Modi

Tuesday, 30 April 2024 | Saugar Sengupta | Kolkata

Bengal Chief Minister continued to rain fire on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, this time calling him a Prachar Babu whose Government was on its way out if the first two phases of polling were any indication. “The sluggish rate of polling in the first two phases of elections have given a...

Tihar revoked permission for Sunita to meet husband: AAP

Monday, 29 April 2024 | Staff Reporter | New Delhi

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday claimed that the Tihar Jail administration have revoked the permission for the wife of jailed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Sunita Kejriwal to meet her husband. “The meeting, which was scheduled for tomorrow (Monday), has now been cancelled, leaving both the Kejriwal family and AAP...

It is because of conspiracy of BJP, CPM that 25,000 people have lost jobs: Mamata

Monday, 29 April 2024 | Saugar Sengupta | Kolkata

Taking a sharp aim at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress and the Left in one shot Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said while the former was a peddler of bluffs, the latter were true aides of the BJP in sofar as they were helping in slicing the Trinamool...

BJP organises birth centenary celebration of Karpoori Thakur

Monday, 29 April 2024 | Samar Pandey | New Delhi

The Delhi BJP Poorvanchal Morcha organised the birth centenary celebration of Bharat Ratna Karpoori Thakur at Ambedkar International Centre on Sunday in the Presence of many senior BJP leaders and people from the Poorvanchal region in Delhi. Many senior BJP leaders were present there including Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva, MP...

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