NCP leader Nawab Malik (Photo: PTI) Nawab Malik‘s candidature in the forthcoming Maharashtra assembly elections is unacceptable to BJP. “The candidature of any person linked to Dawood Ibrahim is unacceptable to BJP,” the party’s city chief Ashish Shelar said during a press conference.Malik is Nationalist Congress Party MLA from Anushakti Nagar. He was in jail…
DHAKA: A mob attacked members of Creative Writers Association –– seen as a platform of pro-Liberation War writers –– when they tried to hold a rally in Dhaka Saturday to protest the cancellation of March 7 and Aug 15 as “national days”.The mob of around 100 reportedly assaulted several protesters with sticks and chased them…
NEW DELHI: Over 1.7 lakh persons were killed in road accidents in 2023. That translates to an average of 474 lives lost every day or one death almost every three minutes, as per data shared by states with central govt. This is the highest number of people killed in a year since govt started collating…
NEW DELHI: Canada’s most recent high commissioner, Cameron MacKay has alleged that the US indictments of Indian nationals and developments with New Delhi over the past week have confirmed that there’s a single plot to kill, which both US and Canada are probing. MacKay, who left India in Aug, said it’s “a fiasco on part…
NEW DELHI: A group of state finance ministers is veering towards GST exemption on term insurance plans, while also considering removal of the levy for senior citizens purchasing health insurance and for those who buy medical coverage of up to Rs 5 lakh.A second group of ministers (GoM) is looking at ways to minimise revenue…
RANCHI: INDIA bloc’s election campaign in Jharkhand hit choppy waters on Saturday after an alleged unilateral seat-sharing arrangement between JMM and Congress left RJD fuming.Trouble began in the afternoon after CM and JMM executive president Hemant Soren, accompanied by netas of Congress, announced that JMM and the grand old party would field candidates in 70…
NEW DELHI: The arrest of Vikash Yadav, a former RAW officer who has been accused by the US of masterminding a plot to kill pro-Khalistan separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on American soil, may complicate efforts by the US to get him extradited.While a US move to secure the extradition of Yadav looks to be a…
NAGPUR: As the flash of guns light up the Russia-Ukraine war front and rockets fly in West Asia, cash registers are ringing at explosives manufacturing units in Nagpur, more than 4,500 km from the battle zones. The city is already informally known as India’s explosives capital where representatives of global arms corporations window-shop along a…
NEW DELHI: At a time when social media is being misused for posting and circulating fake and defamatory messages, Supreme Court sent a clear signal that one has to pay the price for indulging in such activity and directed ex-chancellor of Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), Firoz Bakht Ahmed, to publish an unconditional apology…
Trouble had a way of finding me, writes retired wrestler Sakshi Malik in her memoir, ‘Witness’. It found her at age 19 when fresh from winning gold at 2012 Asian Junior Championship at Kazakhstan’s Almaty, Malik faced what she describes as one of the most traumatic experiences of her life.In the autobiography, Malik, who became…
