Kolkata: Seventeen people were injured early Tuesday when a low intensity blast exploded in a coach of Sealdah-Krishnanagar local train near Titagarh station in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district.The unfortunate incident happened at around 4:00 am.Reports say that two groups travelling in the local train clashed and hurled bombs at each other.The blast took […]
New Delhi, May 12 : A powerful earthquake measuring 7.1 on richter scale epicentred in Nepal shook West Bengal, Delhi and several parts of north India today, less than three weeks after the region was struck by a devastating temblor.“The quake measured 7.1 on richter scale with epicentre somewhere in Nepal,” an IMD official said. […]
Lucknow, May 12: Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani is on a day-long visit to Amethi on Tuesday, the parliamentary constituency of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, party leaders said. Irani unsuccessfully contested the 2014 Lok Sabha election from Amethi but gave the Gandhi scion a run for his money. Having promised to “stay […]
New Delhi, May 12: Amidst the ongoing uproar in the Lok Sabha, the Narendra Modi-led government issued a statement over the Amethi Food Park issue which was raised by Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi. Union Cabinet Minister of Food Processing Harsimrat Kaur Badal said in the lower house, “The Amethi Food Park promoted had flouted […]
Moscow, May 11: President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated a ‘Namaste Russia’ festival of Indian culture here Monday. Indian culture and its heritage of art, music and cinema have enjoyed love and appreciation across Russia over centuries, he said on the occasion.The president said that in India, too, there is enormous warmth and regard for Russian culture […]