BHUBANESWAR: Caretaker chief minister Naveen Patnaik defended his close aide VK Pandian on Saturday, amid the criticism directed at BJD’s chief election strategist for the party’s recent electoral setback. Naveen expressed his disappointment and deemed the criticism directed towards Pandian regrettable.Amid the internal turmoil in BJD following the party’s poor performance in the Lok Sabha…
BHUBANESWAR: Sofia Firdous, 32, of Congress has created history by becoming the first Muslim woman to be elected MLA in the state from the Barabati-Cuttack seat. She defeated BJP candidate and noted gynaecologist Dr Purna Chandra Mahapatra (69) by a margin of 8,001 votes.Though 141 women have become MLAs in Odisha since 1937, no Muslim…
SHAMLI/SAHARANPUR: Azma Qureshi, 33, is in shock like many others in North Haqeeqat Nagar at Banat town in Shamli. Her husband Tehseen (Guddu) Qureshi was among two labourers transporting cattle who were lynched in Raipur district of Chhattisgarh on Friday. The third man is battling for life.“She was the last person to have spoken to…
DEHRADUN: Dhruv Dahiya, 21, from Bengaluru is a fourth-generation officer. His great-grandfather fought World War-II on the Burmese and African fronts, his grandfather is a Shaurya Chakra recipient who saw action in 1971 Indo-Pak war, and his father, Commodore Shivnath Dahiya, a test pilot for Tejas, was the first to land the aircraft on INS…
MYSURU: M Lakshmana, the state Congress spokesperson who lost the Lok Sabha elections from Mysuru, has called upon CM Siddaramaiah to reassess and reevaluate the guarantee schemes being run by the government in Karnataka. Addressing reporters here on Saturday, Lakshmana pointed out that BJP has accused the state govt of encouraging laziness through these guarantee…
NEW DELHI: Congress and the opposition parties were mulling if to attend the oath-taking ceremony of Narendra Modi on Sunday. Sources said Congress president received the invite late night for the event, which will be attended by leaders of South Asia and Indian Ocean Region.Earlier, AICC managers Jairam Ramesh and KC Venugopal chided BJP that…
KOLHAPUR: Satara district administration Saturday demolished eight cottages constructed illegally in a Mahabaleshwar club owned by the family of the teenager allegedly involved in the Porsche crash that killed two engineers in Pune on May 19.The club was built on govt land and run by a trust. The parents and grandparents of the teen allegedly…
NEW DELHI: Days after his swearing-in, Narendra Modi will undertake a day-long visit to Italy to participate in the G7 summit on June 14. With Modi unlikely to attend the Ukraine peace summit, which will be hosted by Switzerland immediately after G7, he’s expected to be back the next day, in time for the Parliament…
NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s head coach Gary Kirsten believes the team will be fully motivated for their upcoming clash against India in the T20 World Cup, despite suffering a humiliating defeat against co-hosts USA.The match, set to take place at the Nassau County stadium in New York on Sunday, comes after Pakistan’s disappointing start to the…
ISLAMABAD: Two members of the minority Ahmadi community were shot dead in Pakistan’s central Punjab province on Saturday, days after a vicious campaign was launched against the Supreme Court order releasing a person from the persecuted sect in a 2022 case.The incident occurred in Sadullapur area of Mandi Bahauddin district.The victims, a 50-year-old man and…
