Twelve new ministers took the oath of office in Assam Friday as Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma carried out his Cabinet expansion, taking the strength of his new ministry to 17.The Himanta Cabinet , even as it continues to accommodate prominent former Congress leaders who had followed Sarma into the BJP some years ago.The senior-most among these ex-Congress leaders in…
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Friday ordered an inquiry into the death of a 22-year-old undergraduate student, who died of suspected suicide after he was booked for an offence of littering on the roadside.Police said the deceased was a resident of Mapusa in North Goa. Earlier on Thursday, a video was shared on social media, purportedly showing a local…
Former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai’s exit from the party has triggered the first signs of a split in its state unit, with vice-president Karu Nagarajan resigning hours later and announcing support for the former IPS officer’s new political movement.Nagarajan, along with his supporters, resigned from the BJP’s primary membership and said they would back Annamalai’s political venture.“I don’t…
