Assam CM meets UAE Ambassador, holds discussion on strengthening ties

IANS | June 23, 2025 11:35 PM

Guwahati, June 23 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday met with UAE Ambassador to India, Abdulnasser Alshaali, and the two discussed ways to strengthen ties between the UAE and Assam in several key sectors, including agriculture and food processing, education, innovation, logistics and connectivity, and sustainable tourism.

Terrorism is enemy of humanity, must be fought together: Tarun Chugh on Kanishka tragedy

IANS | June 23, 2025 9:34 PM

Cork, Ireland, June 23 (IANS) The bombing of Air India Flight, fifty years ago, taught a lesson to the world that terrorism is an enemy of humanity and we all must need to fight it together, said BJP National General Secretary Tarun Chugh after paying heartfelt tributes to the victims who perished in one of the worst terror attacks in aviation history.

MP: PMAY beneficiaries in Vidisha move to their own pucca houses, thank Modi govt

IANS | June 23, 2025 9:32 PM

Vidisha (Madhya Pradesh), June 23 (IANS) The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) has brought phenomenal change in the lives of hundreds of families in Vidisha district of Madhya Pradesh. Many families who had to endure leaking roofs and water seeping from walls, particularly during the rainy season, are now living a comfortable life in a concrete house of their own.

UP: Jaunpur's 'Rajkumari' gets permanent house under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana

IANS | June 23, 2025 8:53 PM

Jaunpur (Uttar Pradesh), June 23 (IANS) Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), one of the flagship schemes of the Modi government, has been a ray of hope for lakhs of poor families, who don't have a house of their own. The poor, downtrodden and unprivileged families are getting permanent houses under the scheme, and the beneficiaries are not just limited to any one city but pan-India.

Bengal by-polls: Trinamool & Congress witness positive vote swings, negative for BJP

IANS | June 23, 2025 8:38 PM

Kolkata, June 23 (IANS) With the results of the by-poll for Kaliganj Assembly constituency in Nadia district of West Bengal announced on Monday - ending in a landslide victory of over 50,000 votes for Trinamool Congress candidate Alifa Ahmed - the figures show that both Ahmed and Left Front-supported Congress candidate Kabil Uddin Shaikh witnessed positive vote swings from what it was in the 2021 state assembly elections.

Turning terrorism into statecraft, Pakistan continues to misuse OIC platform: MEA

IANS | June 23, 2025 8:29 PM

New Delhi, June 23 (IANS) India on Monday slammed the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), rejecting its "unwarranted and factually incorrect" references to India at the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers' Meeting while reiterating that it has no locus standi to comment on India's internal affairs, including Jammu and Kashmir,