CHANDIGARH: Former Haryana minister Ranjit Singh Chautala and seven other leaders were expelled by BJP for six years on Sunday, after they decided to contest the October 5 Assembly polls as independent candidates.Haryana BJP said its chief Mohan Lal Badoli had expelled the leaders with immediate effect.Besides Chautala, Sandeep Garg (contesting the polls from Ladwa),…
PM Modi appreciated the efforts of the residents of Jhala village in Uttarkashi district for the cleanliness drive called ‘Dhanyavaad Prakriti’ NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Sunday marked the soon to be celebrated 10th anniversary of his radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat‘ by praising the success of initiatives taken as part of his campaigns…
NEW DELHI: Putting the onus of deciding whether life support should be withdrawn from a terminally ill patient or not would impose undue stress on doctors, Indian Medical Association has said.According to Dr R V Asokan, IMA’s national president, such clinical decisions have always been taken in good faith by doctors. “Our job is to…
Rajnath Singh (ANI photo) SRINAGAR: Union defence minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said India would have offered more aid to Pakistan, had the neighbouring country maintained good relations with it.Addressing an election rally in the Gurez assembly segment of Bandipora district in north Kashmir, Singh said India would have given a larger bailout package to…
Amroha DM (File photo/UP Govt Department of Appointment & Personnel website) BIJNOR: After Allahabad HC pulled up Amroha district magistrate, Rajesh Kumar Tyagi, for showing “sheer negligence amid procedural lapses” while giving his approval for slapping the stringent Gangster Act against three local residents last month, the state government, admitting lapses had been committed, transferred…
Amit Shah in Gurgaon (ANI photo) GURGAON: Home minister Amit Shah on Sunday asserted that the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, will be passed in the winter session of Parliament, setting the stage for a potential showdown with the opposition both inside and outside the House.“Waqf board law… we will fix it in the next session…
BENGALURU: Indian researchers have found evidence that global Covid lockdowns of 2020 may have had an impact as far away as Moon. A study published in peer-reviewed Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, accessed by TOI, reveals that lunar surface temperatures showed an anomalous dip during the strictest lockdown period of April-May 2020.K…
NEW DELHI: Social media giant X (formerly Twitter) has told Delhi high court that the Centre’s decision to block the account of Hindutva Watch (@HindutvaWatchIn) was “unjustified and disproportionate”. Xwas replying to a petition by Raqib Hameed, a J&K journalist who has challenged the January 2024 blocking as the tracker’s founder. The HC will hear…
NEW DELHI: This has been the wettest monsoon in north India in 11 years. The region, often plagued by large monsoon deficits while staring at a worsening groundwater situation, recorded 628mm from June 1 to Sept 29, its highest rainfall since 2013.That this was the best monsoon in the region in over a decade with…
Two Meitei youths who had been missing for two days after attending a recruitment test for central security forces at New Keithelmanbi in Imphal West district of Manipur were allegedly abducted by Kuki militants. CM N Biren Singh posted Sunday on social media that his govt is “focusing on the rescue of the abduction of…
