Several people are injured in an apparent crowd surge during packed Halloween festivities in South Korea’s capital of Seoul which took place after covid restrictions were removed Seoul: The death toll in South Korea Halloween stampede has risen to 146, with 150 injured, Yonhap news agency reported citing authorities. Several... The post appeared first on .

Several people are injured in an apparent crowd surge during packed Halloween festivities in South Korea’s capital of Seoul which took place after covid restrictions were removed Seoul: The death toll in South Korea Halloween stampede has risen to 146, with 150 injured, Yonhap news agency reported citing authorities. Several... The post appeared first on .

Dehradun Mar 22 PTI Pushkar Singh Dhami who will be sworn as Uttarakhand chief minister on Wednesday has said that he will provide a transparent government and fulfil the BJPs all pre-poll commitments including bringing a uniform civil codeDhami will continue as the Uttarakhand chief minister the BJP said on Monday ending the 11-day suspense over itThe BJPs dilemma on the choice of a chief minister was caused by Dhamis loss in Khatima a seat he had been winning since the 2012 Assembly pollsIn his first comments after his unanimous election as the leader of Uttarakhand BJP legislative party on Monday Dhami said We will fulfil all the commitments that we made to people ahead of the polls The uniform civil code is an important one among them and we will fulfil it too Shortly before campaigning for the assembly polls in Uttarakhand came to an end Dhami had promised to constitute a high-powered committee comprising legal experts senior citizens and intellectuals to draft the codeDhami thanked the people for believing in the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi He also expressed his gratitude to the BJPs central leadership for reposing faith in an ordinary party worker like him once againI thank the people for believing in the prime ministers vision and giving the BJP a big victory I also thank Prime Minister Narendra Modi the home minister party president J P Nadda and Rajnath Singh who was the partys central observer for Uttarakhand for showing confidence in an ordinary worker and the son of a soldier like me Dhami told reportersWe will give a transparent government and fulfil the commitments we have made to people The prime minister has given us his vision for Uttarakhands development and said the decade belongs to the state We will work in accordance with his vision and make Uttarakhand a leading state when it celebrates the silver jubilee of its existence in 2025 he said PTI ALM ALM NSD NSD

Kolkata Oct 25 PTI BJP West Bengal unit president Sukanta Majumdar on Monday alleged that the North 24 Parganas district administration at the behest of the ruling TMC was hindering the saffron partys door-to-door campaign in Khardah assembly seat where by-election will be held on October 30 The police raised objections to the campaign in view of the COVID-19 situation he claimed Objections were raised by the police twice as we were campaigning door to door in Khardah Bazar and Station Road areas of the constituency though there were only five persons in our group We cannot take the responsibility of people who assembled there to support our candidate Joy Saha he told PTI Majumdar along with the party nominee continued the campaign as the police asked others not to assemble there The Balurghat MP said he saw a groundswell of support from people who have been terrorised by the Trinamool Congress We found that many shops were closed in the area and later came to know that traders were threatened not to open their outlets by TMC activists during our visit to the locality This is the situation in West Bengal We tried to reach out to the people he said Saha is pitted against West Bengal agriculture minister and veteran TMC leader Sovandeb Chattopadhyay in Khardah a seat won by state finance minister Amit Mitra twice in 2011 and 2016 Khardah had also elected TMCs Kajal Sinha in the assembly elections earlier this year Sinha died due to COVID-19 before the results were declared necessitating the bypoll State minister and senior TMC leader Firhad Hakim denied Majumdars allegation and said the BJPs state president know that they will lose the elections No one is with the BJP Our candidate will win with a massive margin he told reporters Shortly after the assembly poll results were announced in May Chattopadhyay who won from Bhabanipur vacated the seat to facilitate Chief Minister Mamata Banerjees return to the assembly from thereBanerjee lost to BJPs Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram during the April-May assembly polls Bypolls will also be held in Gosaba Dinhata and Shantipur assembly constituencies on October 30 PTI SUS BDC BDC