MUMBAI: Way back in 1995, Baba Siddique was an ebullient, brash, smooth-talking young Congress corporator from Bandra West, attired in a chic pair of jeans and a T-shirt when this correspondent first encountered him in the corridors of the BMC headquarters. As Mumbai’s real estate market flourished towards the end of the last century, so…
CUTTACK: More than 17 years after a 25-year-old woman walked into a police station in Odisha’s Sundargarh district and confessed to killing her husband, the Orissa high court has overturned the life sentence awarded to her, saying the trial court verdict was based on “surmises and conjectures”, and was a “miscarriage of justice“.Laulina Achariya of…
HYDERABAD: The Indian Navy is the “biggest guarantee of peace in the entire Indian Ocean Region, including the Bay of Bengal“, defence minister Rajnath Singh said Tuesday while laying the foundation stone of the navy’s very low frequency (VLF) radar station in Vikarabad in Telangana.“The countries with which India shares its maritime boundaries should understand…
CHENNAI: Intermittent, widespread rains lashed Chennai and other parts of Tamil Nadu on Tuesday, bringing residential neighbourhoods and roads under knee-deep water and leading to traffic congestion besides affecting public transport services.While bus services were affected in several areas, Southern Railway announced cancellation of four express trains including the Chennai Central-Mysuru Kaveri Express due to…
NEW DELHI: The stage is set for Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s electoral debut, with EC scheduling the bypoll to Kerala‘s Wayanad Lok Sabha seat vacated by LoP Rahul Gandhi for November 13.Rahul had on June 17 announced that he will retain Rae Bareli seat in Uttar Pradesh, and vacate Wayanad that he represented…
MUMBAI: Five months ago, the Mahayuti alliance had to settle for a dismal score of 17 of the state’s 48 LS seats, its poor tally dragging down the BJP’s numbers at the Centre and leaving the opposition confident of a repeat in the assembly polls. Yet, just a week ago, BJP made a comeback by…
RANCHI: INDIA bloc parties in Jharkhand slammed Election Commission (EC) for holding assembly elections in the state along with that of Maharashtra but claimed that they were ready to slug it out with BJP-led NDA, which has welcomed the announcement of poll dates.JMM, Congress, and CPI (ML-L) said the announcement showed that EC was in…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission on Tuesday took a jibe at exit polls – which have had a chequered history regarding the accuracy of their predictions, the case with recent Haryana polls being no different – saying that they are neither based on science nor make public disclosures regarding their methodology, but create a “distortion” by…
BIJNOR/SHAMLI: Four police officers – one of them from another jurisdiction and off duty – and a minor girl along with two members of her family have been charged with murder and conspiracy after a teenager accused of eloping with her was found hanging at the home of a sub-inspector (SI) who was investigating the…
Omar Abdullah (PTI photo) SRINAGAR: INDIA bloc heavyweights will be present in strength as National Conference‘s Omar Abdullah takes oath as CM of J&K for the second time Wednesday at a venue along the Dal, ending six years of central rule since BJP‘s withdrawal from the then coalition government forced his predecessor Mehbooba Mufti of…
