NEW DELHI: Maldives is very much at the heart of India’s ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy and a key partner in Indian Ocean Region (IOR), foreign minister S Jaishankar said as he joined his counterpart Moosa Zameer in Addu city in inaugurating the Addu reclamation and shore protection project and Addu detour link bridge project facilitated by…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party’s Dalit functionaries have dubbed the proposal of sub-categorisation of Scheduled Castes a ploy to “divide and rule”, arguing that the party stands strongly for the unity of the community as prescribed by Ambedkar.Veteran MPs RK Chaudhary and Awadhesh Prasad told TOI that division of SCs into sub-groups will sound the death…
PUNE: Extreme rainfall events in India may see a significant rise by the end of this century with the Western Ghats and central India likely to be most affected, reports Neha Madaan.An Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) study published recently in ‘Nature’ attributed the likely rise to high carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere….
KOLHAPUR: NCP-SCP chief Sharad Pawar faced the ire of Maratha activists who halted his convoy in Kurduvadi in Maharashtra’s Solapur district and later an activist tried self-immolation during his rally in Barshi on Sunday.The activists demanded Pawar to clear his stance on Maratha reservation. They let him go after he expressed support for their cause.However,…
MUNIRABAD (KOPPAL): Lakhs of people in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh braced for potential flooding after the 19th crest gate of the 71-year-old dam across the Tungabhadra river failed Sunday afternoon. The dam, about 350km from Bengaluru, saw water gushing out after the gate gave way, putting downstream districts in north Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool…
KOLKATA/BHUBANESWAR: Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee contacted Sunday her Odisha counterpart Mohan Charan Majhi, urging his intervention following reports of Bengali-speaking workers being assaulted and labelled as “Bangladeshis” by local vigilante groups in his state.Four videos surfaced on social media over the past 24 hours, purportedly showing attacks on Bengali-speaking people in Odisha.Attacks were reported…
BHUBANESWAR: Days after Odisha commerce and transport minister Bibhuti Bhusan Jena called for a thorough probe into V K Pandian’s helicopter rides, state law minister Prithiviraj Harichandan on Sunday said the govt will investigate how 450 helipads were constructed to land the chopper carrying the bureaucrat-turned-politician.Pandian, a close aide of former chief minister Naveen Patnaik,…
NEW DELHI: Resident doctors at major govt hospitals across Delhi are set to indefinitely halt all elective services starting Monday to protest the brutal rape and murder of a resident doctor in Kolkata. They are demanding immediate action in the case and measures to ensure protection for all healthcare workers.President of the Federation of Resident…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Sunday claimed Congress and other opposition parties were part of a conspiracy to create financial instability and chaos in India, as the party rejected Hindenburg’s charge against the Sebi chairperson as an attempt to discredit the financial watchdog.BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said the short-selling firm, which last year levelled serious allegations…
MEERUT: Following a Chief Judicial Magistrate court order, police in Meerut lodged an FIR against principal and yoga instructor of a govt-run Army Public School in Meerut Cant, for ‘slapping a Class 7 student who later turned blind’.The student’s mother, Indu Devi, said her son is suffering from a retinal problem and had very low…
