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Swapan Dasgupta (File photo) NEW DELHI: Newly sworn-in West Bengal ministers were allocated portfolios on Wednesday, with Swapan Dasgupta placed in charge of the finance department and Tapas Roy appointed as industries minister.Dasgupta was elected from the Rashbehari assembly constituency and is a former Rajya Sabha member.The allocation covered 13 Cabinet ministers and 22 ministers…

Congress on Wednesday urged the Election Commission (EC) to immediately reverse the rejection of its Rajya Sabha candidate Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination from Madhya Pradesh, calling the poll body’s decision ‘egregious’ and ‘blatantly unlawful’.A delegation of senior Congress leaders, including KC Venugopal, Randeep Surjewala, Jairam Ramesh, Deepa Dasmunshi, Vivek Tankha and Abhishek Singhvi, met Election Commission…

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Raising concerns over recurring electrical accidents, fires and electrocutions across the country, former power sector regulator D Radhakrishna has urged the Centre to introduce sweeping electrical safety reforms, arguing that stronger oversight is essential to protect consumers and prevent avoidable tragedies.In a letter dated June 9 to NITI Aayog member Prof Abhay Karandikar,…

Narendra Modi is now India’s longest-serving elected Prime Minister. ‘Modi hai to Mumkin hai’, a popular catchphrase that has become synonymous with the BJP-led NDA government over the years. Indeed, this idea of “achieving the impossible” has often been projected as a hallmark of Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s 12-year-long tenure at the helm. But even…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (File photo) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday surpassed the record of country’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, to become the country’s longest-serving elected PM in uninterrupted tenure.As PM Modi completed 4,399 consecutive days in office, leaders from India and around the world congratulated him on the milestone and…

Union home minister Amit Shah speaks during the inauguration of the Land Port Management System (LPMS) at Vigyan Bhawan, in New Delhi on Tuesday. (ANI Photo/Jitender Gupta) NEW DELHI: Launching the land port management system (LPMS) — an integrated platform that will enable end-to-end digital workflows for cargo processing and passenger movement across all land…

NEW DELHI: Congress has ticked off Telangana CM Revanth Reddy for his “Hitler inspiration” remark, calling it out of line with the party ethos and ideology. It has also asked the CM to be careful with his comments in future.When asked about the Telangana CM’s remark, AICC general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal told TOI :…

NEW DELHI: An overhaul of BJP’s organisational teams, including in its apex body, the parliamentary board, is on the cards, with party sources saying a new team of office-bearers can be announced after June 15.As organisational teams are customarily rejigged after a new president is elected, the expected changes are being talked about since Nitin…

NEW DELHI: Congress on Tuesday released a “12-year accountability report” on Modi govt’s “major failures”, and accused the PM of prioritising “publicity over performance”.AICC’s Rajeev Gowda and Amitabh Dubey recalled the PM’s repeated assertions that India was on course to become the world’s third-largest economy, and noted it has since slipped from fourth to sixth…

NEW DELHI: Two youngsters fell in love, but the Class 12 girl filed a complaint against the youth when he refused to marry her, resulting in him being sentenced to 10 years for having physical relations with a minor. The girl married another man, who left her after three days when he came to know…