Imphal, Aug 8 (IANS) The newly appointed Manipur Chief Secretary Puneet Kumar Goel on Friday said that the main focus of the government is to resettle violence-affected internally displaced persons (IDP) at their villages and homes, peacefully and securely.The Chief Secretary, accompanied by Arun Kumar Sinha, Principal Secretary, Agriculture, visited Ngahmun Pre-Fabricated relief camp at Champhai Sub-Divisions and Mandop Relief Camp in Kangpokpi district. During an interaction with both relief c…

Bhopal, Aug 8 (IANS) Targeting Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for accusing the Election Commission of India (ECI) of vote theft, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Friday that the Congress have questioned the credibility of every institution in the country, whether it is the Army, judiciary or the Prime Minister. Without naming Rahul Gandhi directly, Scindia, who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2020, ending his long association with Rahul Gandhi and the Congress, asked “who rem…

Hyderabad, Aug 8 (IANS) BJP MP M. Raghunandan Rao received threat call once again on Friday. An unknown person called the Lok Sabha member saying he is in Hyderabad and will kill him by the evening.The MP from Medak constituency lodged a complaint with the police. He shared the number from which the call was made. Police have taken up investigation to identify the man who threatened the BJP leader.This is the sixth threat call received by the MP in recent months. Raghunandan Rao had got threat c…

Jaipur, Aug 8 (IANS) The Kota Police in Rajasthan have dismantled a major online betting racket linked to the Mahadev Satta network and arrested six people involved in running illegal betting operations worth crores of rupees. The gang operated through multiple fake websites and gaming panels, including the Mahadev Satta app. Police have seized accounts showing transactions of nearly Rs 18 crore.Kota City Superintendent of Police Tejaswani Gautam said that on Thursday, August 7, Anantpura Police…

Imphal, Aug 8 (IANS) Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas and Tourism, Suresh Gopi, on Friday reiterated Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of a transformed Northeast and stressed that a new and improved Manipur could emerge if people embraced innovative ideas across different sectors. The Union Minister, focusing on the tourism sector, while holding a series of meetings in Manipur’s Bishnupur district, acknowledged the immense potential of the tourism sector and underline…

Bhubaneswar, Aug 8 (IANS) A POCSO court here on Friday sentenced a 35-year-old man to 20 years rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting a seven-year-old minor girl in Tamando area of Bhubaneswar in February 2021. The convict was identified as Rabindra Behera of Rambha area in Ganjam district. As per reports, the victim along with her twin brothers was playing inside the house on February 25, 2021. The victim’s mother, who was busy in conversation with some neighbours outside the house, spot…

Bengaluru, Aug 8 (IANS) A delegation of Congress leaders, led by party’s Karnataka unit President D.K. Shivakumar who is also the Deputy Chief Minister, on Friday submitted a complaint to the Karnataka State Election Commission office here regarding ‘electoral fraud’ in Mahadevapura and several other constituencies. The office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Karnataka, in reply to the representation, asked the Congress party to submit the documents related to the complaint along with the declara…

Amaravati, Aug 8 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu will attend the International Tribal Day celebrations in Paderu in Alluri Sitarama Raju on Saturday.This year, the United Nations has called for the observance of International Tribal Day with the theme “Indigenous Peoples and Artificial Intelligence – Defending Rights, Shaping the Future.” The Chief Minister will interact with tribal families to understand their challenges first hand. Later, he will engage with coffee …

New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed Telangana Congress MLA Aadi Srinivas’ petition challenging the Telangana High Court order for not granting any relief to him while declaring BRS leader and former MLA Ramesh Chennamaneni a German citizen and disqualifying him from contesting and holding public office.Srinivas, who had secured the second-highest votes in four elections that Ramesh won since 2009, was not declared as the MLA from Vemulawada by the High Court.Appearing…

New Delhi, Aug 8 (IANS) Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri highlighted on Friday that India sells LPG at the cheapest prices in the world, despite being an importer, enabling more than 10.33 crore Ujjwala families to cook food at just Rs 6 per day due to the affordable fuel.”Our energy sector oil marketing companies suffered heavy losses to make LPG available to kitchens at nearly half the cost at which it was being sold in the countries in our neighbourhood,” the minister …