Gurugram, May 8 (IANS) Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday repeated his allegation that the BJP had “stolen” elections in Haryana and also manipulated Assembly polls in West Bengal and Assam, while calling upon young Congress leaders across states to lead Sadbhav Yatras to counter what he described as the politics of hatred and division.Addressing a Sadbhav Yatra event here, Rahul Gandhi alleged that West Bengal and Assam had now been added to the list of states such…
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New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) Political leaders across parties reacted sharply on Friday after AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi remarked that “Vande Mataram” cannot be treated on par with the national anthem, triggering a fresh political debate over nationalism, religion, and constitutional values.Owaisi, in a post on social media platform X, said, “Vande Mataram is an ode to a goddess. It cannot be treated on par with the national anthem. ‘Jana Gana Mana’ celebrates India and its people, not a particular…
Chandigarh, May 8 (IANS) Director of Census Operations, Haryana, Lalit Jain, on Friday conducted a detailed review of the preparations for the upcoming Census operations in Gurugram. The meeting was attended by Deputy Commissioner Uttam Singh, as well as senior officers, including tehsildars, and representatives from Municipal Corporation Gurugram and Municipal Corporation Manesar.Addressing the meeting, Jain directed that the actual Census work should commence at the earliest.He inform…
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) Despite regional differences, informal employment remains the predominant form of employment across all states, an SBI Research report said on Friday, highlighting the need for greater workforce formalisation and expansion of social security coverage.Female workers are 4.8 per cent more likely to be informal workers compared to male workers whereas construction sector workers are 4.5 per cent more likely to be engaged in informal employment relative to agricultural sector…
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) In a major breakthrough under the ongoing Zero Tolerance Policy against narcotics, Delhi Police on Friday successfully busted an interstate drug trafficking network involved in the illegal supply of high-quality Malana Charas from Himachal Pradesh to Delhi-NCR. Five accused persons, including the source supplier from Village Malana in Himachal Pradesh’s Kullu district, have been arrested or identified in connection with the case.The action was taken in connection with F…
Patna/New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a chargesheet in a Special NIA Court in Patna against an arms and ammunition smuggler in an inter-state illegal ammunition trafficking case with footprints spread across Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, an official said on Thursday. Parvez Alam is the ninth accused to be charged in the case RC-01/25/NIA/PAT, said the official in a statement.Charges have been filed against him under various sections of the BNS and Arms A…
New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) The Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India (RG & CCI) on Thursday flagged off six awareness vans as part of the Census 2027 public outreach campaign in Delhi for the ongoing first phase of Houselisting and Housing Census (HLO), an official said. The Census awareness vans, flagged off from Janganana Bhawan in Delhi, will travel across Delhi NCT carrying messages on Census participation, Self-Enumeration (SE) facility, key features of Census 2027 and the imp…
Gandhinagar, May 7 (IANS) Investors have alleged large-scale cheating in a high-return investment scheme linked to Shoot Space Digital Pvt. Ltd., operating from Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City), with complaints indicating that more than 33,000 people across multiple states may have been affected after promised returns reportedly stopped, officials said on Thursday. According to multiple investor complaints and preliminary police findings, the company allegedly promoted a scheme…
Chandigarh, May 7 (IANS) Taking a major step towards administrative and legal reforms, Haryana’s Advocate General’s Office has now become fully digitalised. Under the leadership of Advocate General Pravindra Singh Chauhan, Haryana has become the first state where all legal operations in the office are being conducted entirely through digital systems.This achievement is being regarded as a new benchmark not only for Haryana but for the entire country, the state government said.The Advocate Gene…
Panipat, May 7 (IANS) A Special NDPS Court in Haryana’s Panipat district sentenced three drug traffickers to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment each in a 2021 interstate charas trafficking case, a Narcotics Crime Bureau (NCB) official said on Thursday. The Special Court held Mohd. Wali, Mohd. Rehan Shah and Imran Khan, all three residents of Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit, guilty under the provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act for carrying 10 kg charas.”While sentencin…