NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday demanded a CBI inquiry into the alleged land allotment scam in the High Tech Defence Aerospace Park in Bengaluru and urged Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge to resign, along with his son Priyank from his ministerial position in the Karnataka govt.“Mallikarjun Kharge and his family are involved in a scandal involving…
CHANDIGARH: Former Haryana deputy CM Dushyant Chautala‘s Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) announced Tuesday an alliance with the Chandrashekhar Azad-led Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) for the Oct 1 assembly polls. Under the deal, JJP will contest in 70 of Haryana’s 90 assembly seats and Aazad Samaj Party (ASP) in 20.The move comes months after Dushyant…
MUMBAI: An artist from Kalyan and a structural contractor from Kolhapur have been charged with attempt to murder and culpable homicide in connection with the collapse of the 35-ft statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at Rajkot fort in Sindhudurg. The statue, unveiled by PM Modi on Dec 4, 2023, collapsed on Monday afternoon, sparking a…
DEHRADUN: A significant portion of the Joshimath-Auli road collapsed on Tuesday, which hampered access to the skiing resort of Auli from Joshimath. The collapse was attributed by local residents and activists to alleged construction work by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), which has a battalion headquarters at Joshimath. “An around 20m-long stretch of the single-lane…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday announced 29 more candidates for the J&K assembly polls, replacing party veteran, former deputy CM Nirmal Singh with Satish Sharma.The exclusion of Singh along with others had sparked protests on Monday, resulting in the list being withdrawn. The party also held its ground over fielding Devender Singh Rana, brother of…
LUCKNOW: Englishman James Shirley’s 17th-century poem “Death the Leveller” is a lyrical reminder that “sceptre and crown/must tumble down/and in the dust be equal made”.Four centuries later, as a bulldozer stopped in front of Kotwali police station in UP’s Siddharthanagar and a band of bewildered cops tried to make sense of what was happening, the…
KOCHI: Actor Mohanlal resigned on Tuesday as president of Association of Malayalam Movie Artists (AMMA), following the fallout from the Justice K Hema committee report and a wave of #MeToo allegations against several prominent figures in Kerala film industry.The committee, which probed allegations of exploitation and rights violations of women in the industry, had documented…
AGRA/LUCKNOW: Two Dalit girls, aged 15 and 18 years, were found hanging from a mango tree in an orchard at Bhagautipur village in Kaimganj area of Farrukhabad on Tuesday morning.The families of the girls, who were friends, suspect foul play. But SP (Farrukhabad) Alok Priyadarshi said, “No injury or assault was found in the postmortem…
NEW DELHI: The NDA reached the majority mark in Rajya Sabha on its own for the first time since it assumed office in 2014 with BJP winning nine seats and its allies two in bypolls to 12 seats in the latest round. All candidates were elected unopposed.BJP now has 96 seats in the House of…
SRINAGAR: National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah will contest from Ganderbal constituency in central Kashmir, sources said Tuesday, after the former CM acknowledged that it was a “mistake” to earlier announce that he would abstain from assembly elections until J&K’s full statehood was restored.“I have realised that how the people could cast their vote…
