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Patna, August 15 The two-member cabinet in Bihar comprising Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Prasad Yadav will be expanded on Tuesday when about 30 members will be inducted from different constituents of the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ or the Grand Alliance. According to highly placed sources, the swearing-in will take…

Patna, August 15 The two-member cabinet in Bihar comprising Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Prasad Yadav will be expanded on Tuesday when about 30 members will be inducted from different constituents of the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ or the Grand Alliance. According to highly placed sources, the swearing-in will take…

Patna, August 16 The two-member cabinet in Bihar comprising Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Prasad Yadav was expanded on Tuesday. The biggest chunk of seats went to alliance partner Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). Read More | Source: The Tribune…

Patna, August 16 The newly formed cabinet in Bihar expanded on Tuesday when 31 ministers took oath, with the RJD getting a lion’s share, and care having been taken to represent all sections of the society, including the minorities. Among the ministers who took oath, 16 were from RJD, 11…

Srinagar, August 15Two persons, including a civilian from minority community, were injured in two grenade attacks by militants in Kashmir on Monday, police said.The ultras carried out two grenade attacks within an hour—one at a minority habitation in Chadoora in Budgam district and another at Police Control Room in Srinagar,…

Bengaluru, August 15 Multinational pizza restaurant chain Domino’s came in for sharp criticism after a Twitter user posted a picture purportedly showing a mop and a toilet brush hanging above the pizza dough almost touching it. The Twitter user by name Sahil Karnany, who said he was an IT graduate,…

Godhra, August 15 All the eleven convicts sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2002 post-Godhra Bilkis Bano gang rape case on Monday walked out of the Godhra sub-jail after the Gujarat government allowed their release under its remission policy, an official said. A special CBI court in Mumbai on January…

Chandigarh, August 15 Har Ghar Tiranga campaign has inspired Indians across the world to bring the Tiranga home and hoist it to celebrate the 76th Independence Day. A look around and there are flags flying at office buildings, houses and shops across the country. One such heartening photo of…

Chandigarh, August 15 As India celebrates its 76th Independence Day today, a Pakistani artist’s beautiful wish has been winning the hearts of people on both sides of the border. Siyal Khan posted a video of himself playing the Indian national anthem ‘Jana Gana Mana’ on a string instrument called Rabab…

Haldwani (Uttarakhand), August 15 The body of an army jawan was found in an old bunker in Siachen, 38 years after he went missing in an avalanche while on patrol. The Sainik Group Centre in Ranikhet on Sunday identified the body as that of Chandrashekhar Harbola of 19 Kumaon Regiment….

Abhinav Vashisht Kullu, August 15 Two persons were washed away as a temporary footbridge over the Solang Nullah to Solang village collapsed near Manali on Monday. The bridge was constructed by the villagers. The rivulet was in spate and suddenly the bridge gave way and two persons crossing it were…

Bangkok, August 15 A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted the country’s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, on more corruption charges on Monday, adding six years to her earlier 11-year prison sentence, a legal official said. The trial was held behind closed doors, with no access for media or the…

Mumbai, August 15 An unidentified person on Monday made phone calls to a hospital in Mumbai and threatened to kill the family of industrialist Mukesh Ambani, a police official said. The city police later detained a suspect, he said. The person made three to four calls on a public number…

New Delhi, August 15 Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday asserted that free education and healthcare are not freebies and access to these two can eliminate the country’s poverty in one generation. At the Delhi government’s Independence Day event at Chhatrasal Stadium here, he also emphasised that school education…

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, August 15 Bharat Biotech on Monday announced that BBV154, India’s first intranasal Covid vaccine had proven to be safe, well-tolerated, and immunogenic in subjects in controlled clinical trials. BBV154 is a recombinant replication-deficient adenovirus vectored vaccine with a pre-fusion stabilised spike protein. In two separate…