DEHRADUN: A senior BJP functionary in Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand has been charged by local police for “promoting enmity” and “outraging religious feelings” after he allegedly threatened to “burn down shops belonging to members of the minority community and gouge their eyes out for targeting Hindu girls over love jihad.”Lakhpat Bhandari, vice-president of Pauri…
JOYNAGAR (SOUTH 24 PARGANAS): A nine-year-old girl’s battered body was found in a ditch near her home at Joynagar in Bengal’s South 24 Parganas early Saturday, triggering a rampage by villagers who alleged “perfunctory” police response on a complaint since she went missing the previous day after leaving home for tuition. Her family alleged she…
NEW DELHI: State Bank of India has declared loan accounts of debt-ridden state-owned MTNL as sub-standard non-performing assets due to non-payment of instalments and interest since June 30, the telecom firm said in a filing.The total outstanding on the MTNL loan account was Rs 326 crore as of Sept 30, according to the SBI letter…
PUNE: Renowned economist Sanjeev Sanyal has been offered the post of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE) chancellor nine days after Bibek Debroy, the chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India, resigned from the position.Servants of India Society (SIS), which manages the institute, sent Sanyal an appointment letter on…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah will review the security situation as well as progress of development schemes in eight left-wing extremism-hit states in a meeting with their chief ministers on Monday. The meeting comes against the backdrop of a major success achieved by counter-naxal forces in Chhattisgarh, with the security personnel having eliminated 31…
NEW DELHI: NIA Saturday conducted raids at 26 locations across five states in a case related to Pakistan-based jihadist group Jaish-e-Muhammed‘s conspiracy to radicalise and recruit individuals and motivate them to carry out attacks at several places across India.One person – Sheikh Sultan Salah Uddin Ayubi, alias Ayubi – was arrested by NIA and several…
NEW DELHI: A full-scale conflict between BJP and Congress appears to be looming with the governing party objecting to latter’s plan to get Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee to summon Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch to face questions on the regulator’s probe into the allegations against Adani Group and accusing it of using the parliamentary panel…
RANCHI: BJP on Saturday launched the first phase of its manifesto for upcoming Jharkhand assembly elections, calling it ‘Paanch Pran‘ (five promises/resolutions). The five promises covered women’s welfare, youths, jobs and housing. However, the “influx of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh”, a recurrent theme in the party’s campaign in the run-up to the polls and a…
CHANDIGARH: Haryana’s single-phase assembly elections ended peacefully Saturday, with voter turnout reaching nearly 67% by midnight – lower than the 76% recorded in 2014 and 69% in 2019, both years when BJP won the polls.EC officials estimated that the final figure could climb. The highest turnout was recorded in Fatehabad district at more than 74%,…
Congress is set to record a crushing win in Haryana while the NC-led alliance in Jammu & Kashmir could be well placed to form the government in the Union territory, according to exit polls released Saturday.If the polls turn out right – a big if – it would buttress the feeling that momentum is against…
