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The major news headlines of the day, and more. Asserting that terrorism is the “biggest problem” facing the world, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said there was a need to ensure that countries supporting and assisting terrorists are held guilty, in an oblique reference to Pakistan. Addressing the ...

World14:41 GMT 12.11.2020Get short URLIn the first major election in India since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led coalition NDA retained power in Bihar in a closely-contested battle with the opposition RJD-led Grand Alliance.In the aftermath of the BJP-led ...

The BJP has released the first list of candidates for the upcoming District Development Council polls to be conducted on party basis in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.Meanwhile, the parties of Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), that is jointly contesting the polls, have decided that the ...

Bihar Election: PM Modi asked the electorate to "beware of elements" who are seeking votes.New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday excoriated the opposition over the Pulwama attack after Pakistan's admission of complicity in it, saying it has "taken masks off" the faces of those in India who ...

The venue is Janta Haat, in Kochadhaman, in Kishanganj district of north Bihar, a crowded market, selling all kinds of wares, from luridly coloured sweetmeats, to masalas, to dried fish. Men, women, children, young men on motorcycles impatiently blowing the horn, some on cycles, some others pushing their carts, ...

Ahead of the 2015 Bihar assembly polls, the Yadav chieftains -- Lalu Prasad Yadav and Mulayam Singh Yadav -- had assembled together a rickety grand alliance, which collapsed much before the elections were held. Its political tremors were felt in India’s northern belt. The two neighbouring states -- Bihar ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Bihar Bihar Election 2020: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday kick-started his election campaign by holding three back-to-back rallies in Bihar. His first rally was in Sasaram, second in Gaya and third in Bhagalpur. In all three rallies, he targeted the opposition parties, mainly the ...

The Allahabad High Court has said it is not satisfied with the explanation of the Uttar Pradesh government on why it had taken action against the district police chief of Hathras but not the District Magistrate (DM) over the alleged rape of a Dalit woman and the hurried cremation of the victim, ...

Nitish compelled the BJP to announce his name as the CM candidate, but he cannot force the LJP not to carry posters of the late Ram Vilas Paswan with Modi.Dangerous liaisonsChirag Paswan is not so much a rebel as a pawn in the BJP’s two-faced poll strategy in Bihar. ...

To speed up testing as well as improve the accuracy of testing for coronavirus (COVID-19) positive cases, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is working on developing “mega labs” where large machines, called Next Generation Sequencing machines (NGS), which are also used for sequencing human genomes, will ...