MUMBAI: In the build-up to the final phase of polling for 13 seats in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray ruled out any possibility of a reconciliation with BJP. Responding to PM Modi’s ‘Uddhav Thackeray is not my enemy’ remark, he said such statements suggest nothing but confusion in Modi’s mind. “There is no…
PUNE: The southwest monsoon is poised to enter the south Andaman Sea, certain areas of southeast Bay of Bengal and the Nicobar islands by May 19, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).IMD director-general Mrutyunjay Mohapatra told TOI, “This aligns with the near-normal onset date for the region, with Port Blair usually experiencing monsoon onset…
VARANASI: PM Modi on Monday evening kicked off the campaign for the seventh and final phase of Lok Sabha election by holding a 5-km-long roadshow in his parliamentary constituency here, on the eve of filing his nomination on Tuesday for a third term.Modi’s roadshow took the same route on which he had held a grand…
Particularly noteworthy is the Kedarnath shrine, which witnessed a 67% increase in footfall since its portals opened on May 10. Last year, 44,892 pilgrims visited the Himalayan shrine in the first three days, which increased to 75,139 this time. Similarly, the number of pilgrims has increased by 61% in Gangotri and 59% in Yamunotri. In…
RAIPUR: Two days after security forces claimed to have killed 12 Maoists in an encounter in Bastar’s Bijapur, local villagers, mostly women, marched to district headquarters accusing police of a fake encounter. Innocent villagers were gunned down while collecting tendu leaves, they claimed.DIG (South Bastar) Kamalochan Kashyap said those killed were Maoists, many of whom…
GUWAHATI: When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Students of several schools in Manipur that were shut for months as ethnic violence rippled through the state since May last year, have excelled in the CBSE Class 12 exams, in some cases outperforming zones elsewhere in the North-East by a significant margin.St Paul’s School…
LONDON: A 22-year-old man has been charged with murder after an Indian-origin grandmother, a British citizen, was stabbed to death in broad daylight in London after resisting a mugger trying to steal her handbag.Anita Mukhey (66) was stabbed to death at a bus stop in Burnt Oak Broadway, Edgware, last Thursday at 11.50am after battling…
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NEW DELHI: Former Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi passed away on Monday at the age of 72. He was battling cancer. Sushil Modi, who served as finance minister of Bihar from 2005-2013 and from 2017-2020, was a lifelong member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). “The BJP family is deeply saddened by the…
NEW DELHI: Maharashtra reported 91 cases of the Covid-19 Omicron subvariant KP.2, which has surpassed the previously dominant JN.1 variant and is currently the primary driver of cases in several nations. As per Dr Rajesh Karyakarte, the state’s genome sequencing coordinator the slight surge in cases witnessed by the state in March, with an average…
