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Abhishek Banerjee. (Image: News18) Banerjee earlier went to Tripura to stand by workers of IPAC and again to stand in solidarity with TMC leaders who were arrested. An FIR was lodged against Banerjee too. CNN-News18 Last Updated:September 10, 2021, 09:14 IST FOLLOW US ON: Abhishek Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress National General Secretary, will hold a rally in Tripura on September ...

BJP MLA Sudip Roy Burman, who is known to speak openly against Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Deb, has once again opposed his government in the state via a Facebook Post. “Several questions are coming on the Joint Recruitment exam of group C & D employees. It is logical to keep Bangla and Kokborok as compulsory language but it is not ...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar along with leader of opposition, Tejashwi Yadav will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 23 to discuss the issue of a caste-based census. “I had sought an appointment with the PM to meet him along with an all-party delegation from Bihar, including RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav, to discuss the issue of a caste-based census. I ...

WASHINGTON: Three senators said Thursday they have tested positive for COVID-19 despite being vaccinated, a high-profile collection of breakthrough cases that comes as the highly infectious delta variant spreads rapidly across the United States. Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., all said they have tested positive for the virus. Almost every member of the Senate ...

Chattisgarh Ministers and Congress officials, including Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, on a silent dharna under the statue of Mahatma Gandhi. The Congress is irked by the ruckus in the Rajya Sabha after the Insurance Bill and a scuffle with the MPs from the marshals. Alleging assault on women MPs of Chhattisgarh, Congress today staged a silent protest at Gandhi Maidan in Raipur. ...

Members of the Narayani Sena, an organisation raised by a group that demands a separate state carving out West Bengal’s Cooch Behar district, on Thursday engaged in a scuffle with the police in Jalpaiguri district ahead of a BJP programme to be attended by Union minister Nisith Pramanik. At least 250 members of the Narayani Sena were arrested in Maynaguri ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va.: U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh toured an underground coal mine for the first time, joining Sen. Joe Manchin at a northern West Virginia facility on Wednesday. Walsh did his best to signal that Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration wont be an enemy of the coal industry as he and Manchin visited American Consolidated Natural Resources’ Golden Ridge Portal ...

DENVER: Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert’s husband made $478,000 last year working as a consultant for an energy firm, information that was not disclosed during Boebert’s congressional campaign and only reported in her financial disclosure forms filed this week. In paperwork filed with the House of Representatives on Tuesday, the Republican congresswoman reported that her husband, Jayson Boebert, received the money ...

Ranchi, Aug 18: The police have registered an FIR against a close associate of Jharkhand’s BJP Legislature Party leader Babulal Marandi, accusing him of raping his domestic help last year. The woman, a resident of Khunti, lodged a police complaint of rape against Sunil Tiwari who denied the charge and claimed that the case was politically motivated. In her complaint ...

The Calcutta High Court will pronounce its ruling on a group of petitions demanding an impartial investigation into alleged post-election violence in West Bengal. According to the ’cause list’ posted by the high court on Wednesday, a five-judge bench presided over by Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal will pronounce the judgement on the matter. An inquiry committee of NHRC was ordered ...