PANAJI: A Panama-flagged container ship, M V Maersk Frankfurt, was rocked by explosions off the Goa coast on Friday. The ship was on its way to Colombo when a massive fire broke out near its bow.There were no reports of any casualties at the time of going to press.An Indian Coast Guard (ICG) official said…
NEW DELHI: UPSC has issued probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar a show-cause notice, asking why her candidature in the 2022 civil services exam should not be cancelled, in which case she would cease to be part of the IAS and be barred from all future competitive exams, report Rajshekhar Jha & Bharti Jain. Delhi crime…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah, who on Friday reviewed the functioning of Multi Agency Centre (MAC), the nerve-centre within Intelligence Bureau that tackles internal security challenges, stressed on the need to stay “one step ahead” while responding to new and emerging threats and called for constitution of a team of young, technically proficient and…
HARIDWAR: Uttarakhand authorities have mandated that shop owners along the kanwar yatra route display nameplates with their details. The directive, following a similar order in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, aims to “prevent any law and order issues” during the yatra, officials said.Backing the directive, CM Pushkar Singh Dhami cited “past instances of shop owners using fake…
NEW DELHI: K Chandrashekhar Rao’s Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) tops the income chart among regional parties for the year 2022-23 with Rs 737.6 crore, 42.3% of the total, according to poll rights body Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).The top five parties with the highest expenditure are Trinamool Congress, which spent Rs 181.1 crore or 37.6…
NEW DELHI: In a clear message to DRDO, defence PSUs and other agencies amid the continuing delay in the delivery of Tejas fighters and other indigenous weapon systems, IAF vice chief Friday said national security and operational readiness cannot be sacrificed at the altar of self-reliance. “Atmanirbharta (self-reliance) is what we are riding on…But this…
KOLKATA: West Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose alleged on Friday that the sexual assault charges against him by a Raj Bhavan staffer were “engineered by chief minister Mamata Banerjee“.Bose posted on X: “This is a proxy war in which the CM is splurging public money by engaging high paid lawyers. The governor refuses to…
AIZAWL: A mummified tiger with its fiery eyes glaring at visitors has been the centre of attraction at the Mizoram State Museum in Aizawl, but the person who was responsible for bringing the big cat from the jungles to the museum seems to have faded out of public memory. Lalzadingi, who had killed the tiger…
DEHRADUN: In a singular order, Uttarakhand high court has directed police to provide security to an interfaith couple in a live-in relationship provided the couple register themselves under the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) within 48 hours. The order evoked surprise as the UCC, although approved by the President and notified by the state govt, is…
KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee moved a Calcutta high court division bench Friday against a single-bench order restraining her from making “defamatory and incorrect statements” against governor C V Ananda Bose “in publications or social media platforms” till Aug 14, arguing that “justifiable criticism” was not libel and that the order completely curbed her fundamental…
