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Mumbai | Co-founder Binny Bansal has resigned from the board of e-commerce giant Flipkart's payment company PhonePe. Binny Bansal has taken this decision almost 10 months after stepping down from the board of Flipkart. Binny Bansal left Flipkart in January this year citing conflict of interest after launching his new venture Oppador. He was on the PhonePe board since 2016, when Flipkart Group acquired the payments firm. I express my heartfelt gratitude to Binny Bansal: PhonePe CEO PhonePe Chief Executive Officer and Founder Sameer Nigam said, 'I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Binny Bansal for being one…

Barnala | It’s a definite win for the ruling Aam Aadmi Party at three of the four assembly seats in Punjab where bypolls were held on November 20. As the counting entered its final stage, the ruling party were already celebrating the leads in Dera Baba Nanak, Chabbewal and Gidderbaha, with Congress candidates in these former Congress strongholds trailing behind. The open support extended by Akali workers to the AAP candidates in both Dera Baba Nanak and Gidderbaha has helped the candidates lead in both places. However, the party seems set to lose its own citadel of Barnala, where Congress…

Barnala | Congress candidate Kuldeep Singh Dhillon won the Barnala assembly segment, defeating AAP’s Harinder Singh Dhaliwal by 2,157 votes, said officials. Congress candidate Kuldeep Singh Dhillon won the Barnala assembly segment on Saturday, defeating AAP’s Harinder Singh Dhaliwal by 2,157 votes. In the multi-cornered contest, Dhillon secured 28,254 votes, while Dhaliwal got 26,097 votes. BJP candidate Kewal Singh Dhillon secured 17,958 votes, while AAP rebel and Independent candidate Gurdeep Singh Batth secured 16,899 votes. Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) candidate Govind Singh Sandhu got 7,900 votes. Bypolls to Gidderbaha, Dera Baba Nanak, Chabbewal (SC) and Barnala took place on November…

Punjab | Aam Aadmi Party candidate Dr Ishank Kumar Chabbewal won the Chabbewal assembly seat in Punjab on Saturday, defeating his nearest rival and Congress nominee Ranjit Kumar by 28,690 votes, according to officials. AAP’ s victorious candidate Ishank Kumar getting the winner certificate from the returning officer at Chabbewal on Saturday. Dr Ishank Kumar polled 51,904 votes and Ranjit Kumar got 23,214 votes. The BJP’s Sohan Singh Thandal was a distant third with 8,692 votes, Election Commission data showed. The Chabbewal bypoll was necessitated after Dr Ishank Kumar’s father Raj Kumar Chabbewal, who was a Congress MLA but later…

Bathinda | Hundreds of farmers clashed with police personnel in Punjab's Bathinda over compensation for the land acquired by the government under the Bharatmala project. The Bharatmala is a highway development project aimed at improving the efficiency of freight and passenger movement across the country. The farmers gathered in Maisar Khana village of Bathinda under the leadership of Bharatiya Kisan Union Ekta Upagraha, alleging that they were not paid the right amount of compensation as promised in lieu of the land acquired by the government for the mega infrastructure project. A large group of farmers from Sangrur also broke down…

Imphal | The Centre dispatched 20 more companies of paramilitary forces to Manipur in the wake of the recent surge in violence in the state, officials said. The 20 companies comprising 20,000 additional paramilitary personnel have been dispatched to the strife-stricken state days after 50 such companies were sent to Manipur after a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Today, we had a security review meeting, and in this meeting, we reviewed the security of all the districts and Imphal city. During the meeting, Army, police, CRPF, BSF, ITBP officials were present. Whatever problems come up, we are all…

Mumbai  | Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Saturday expressed concerns over the trends emerging from the counting of votes in Maharashtra for the recently held assembly elections, saying that they have done 'gadbad' to steal Maha Vikas Aghadi seats. He said that such results are being imposed because this cannot be the decision of the people of Maharashtra.Raut further questioned the number of seats NCP and Shinde's Shiv Sena were getting, saying that the public doesn't agree with these results. They have done some 'gadbad', they have stolen some of our seats. This cannot be the public's decision. Even…

New Delhi | With early trends indicating a lead for Congress candidate Priyanka Gandhi with over two lakh votes as counting progressed in Wayanad Lok Sabha by-polls on Saturday, BJP leader Tom Vadakkan alleged that the Congress took the support of Social Democratic Party of India , the political arm of the banned Popular Front of India. Speaking to private news , Vadakkan said, It is not a question of who wins or loses in Wayanad. It's a question of whose support you take. Demographically, it is a particular community in strength there. Despite that, you take the support of…

Jaipur | Jaipur police has busted a gang who stole iPhones from a local mobile shop on November 6 and were planning to smuggle them to Bangladesh, officials said. iPhones worth Rs 2 crore, Rs 3.85 lakh in cash and a rented car used for theft have been recovered from the possession of the five accused arrested by Jaipur police. As per the initial investigation, police have revealed that one of the arrested accused, Safan Khan, turned out to be an old friend of the mobile shop owner, Ramindra Singh Makhija. During the interrogation, it came to light that mobile…

Lucknow | A land mafia allegedly demolished the wall of a school with the help of a bulldozer in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow. The incident was caught on a nearby CCTV camera. The school administration has filed a complaint with the police in this regard, alleging that the mafia has committed the act in order to capture the institute's land. According to information, Kanausa School in Lucknow's Indira Nagar is 40-years-old. Allegations are that there is a dispute with the mafia named Pappu Chauhan over the land adjoining the school playground wall. The school principal had earlier lodged a similar complaint,…