On July 2, 1918, towards the end of WW-1, a British ship named ‘SS Shirala‘ sank in the English Channel. Its ‘killer’ was the dreaded German submarine UB-57, commanded by Oberleutnant Johannes Lohs who destroyed dozens of enemy ships with a combined capacity of over 1.5 lakh tonnes before he died aged 29. The Shirala…
PATNA: RJD president Lalu Prasad on Tuesday claimed there was no chance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi returning to office and that INDIA bloc would form the next govt at the Centre.“Modi gaye ab (Modi is gone now),” the former Bihar CM told media on Tuesday as he stepped out of his home to campaign…
KOLKATA/DUMKA: PM Narendra Modi announced on Tuesday that the Centre has successfully recovered and returned Rs 17,000 crore of “scam money” to people across India. He also reiterated his commitment to specifically give back Rs 3,000 crore to Bengal citizens allegedly defrauded by Trinamool govt.“Will get the money out from scamsters and return it to…
NEW DELHI: Two people were killed and nine others were injured on Wednesday after a bus overturned near Phiringia in Odisha. The accident occurred at a turning in Phiringia as confirmed by Chittaranjan Mahanta, SDM, Phulbani. The injured have been admitted to the hospital for treatment and there were around 50 passengers on the bus…
BENGALURU/SHIVAMOGGA: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Hassan sleaze videos allegedly invovling Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, Tuesday arrested two men – Naveen Gowda and Chetan – in their 30s and both from Sakaleshpur in Hassan. They were accused of leaking the sleaze videos.The arrests were made in the morning when the two had come…
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court acquitted on Tuesday Dera Sacha Sauda chief and rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and four others in a 22-year-old case involving the murder of his then manager Ranjit Singh, citing “a tainted and sketchy investigation” and presentation of evidence “unworthy of credence”. A special CBI court in…
NEW DELHI: India will kick off official contract negotiations with France this week for the mega acquisition of 26 Rafale-Marine fighters for over Rs 50,000 crore, with the Navy keen on inducting the supersonic jets for its two aircraft carriers as soon as possible due to the expanding Chinese threat in the Indian Ocean Region.A…
NEW DELHI: Former Union minister and Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Tuesday triggered row when he said that the Chinese in 1962 “allegedly invaded India”.“In October 1962, the Chinese allegedly invaded India,” he said at a book release event. Recalling the time he took exam for Indian Foreign Service, he said, “On the day,…
NEW DELHI: BJP leader Ravi Kishan on Tuesday called Congress leader Shashi Tharoor “angrez aadmi” for suggesting that the BJP would struggle to exceed 300 seats in the Lok Sabha elections.Responding to Tharoor’s allegations, BJP MP from Gorakhpur said, “Shashi Tharoor is ‘angrez aadmi’. We go to Manali and Shimla on vacations; they come to…
NEW DELHI: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) in Karnataka has sought the cancellation of bail granted JD(S) MLA and former Karnataka minister HD Revanna in a sexual assault case. Revanna faces charges in two separate cases, one involving sexual harassment and the other related to kidnapping. He is currently out of jail on conditional bail.The…
