RANCHI: Several political parties, including JMM, Congress, RJD, BJP, Ajsu-P, JD(U), LJP(R) and newly formed JKLM along with 1,128 candidates in total are anxiously awaiting the outcome of the battle of ballots, which will be declared on Saturday. Of two political camps – the BJP-led NDA – has been favoured by most exit polls to…
RAIPUR: Ten Maoists, including three women, were shot dead by security forces in Bastar’s Sukma on Friday. This is the biggest encounter since the Oct 3 gunfight in which 38 Maoists were killed. The Maoist death toll this year has now risen to 207, this week alone accounting for 15 deaths.An AK-47, an Insas rifle…
NEW DELHI: Canada has officially denied it has any evidence to link PM Modi, foreign minister S Jaishankar and NSA Ajit Doval with the murder of pro-Khalistan terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, distancing itself from a Canadian media report earlier this week that quoted an anonymous security official to suggest that all three shared culpability for…
NEW DELHI: In a stern message to Delhi Police commissioner Sanjay Arora and his deputies, Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday made it clear to the police brass that law and order was top priority and any laxity was “unacceptable”. Expressing concern over the rising crime in the national capital, Shah is learnt to…
NEW DELHI: The Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) complaint in a New York court has said that Solar Energy Corporation of India had hoped to sign the power purchase agreement within 90 days of issuing letters of award to Adani Green and Azure Power in June 2020, but the high tariffs quoted by the companies…
MUMBAI: Maha Vikas Aghadi comprising NCP (SP), Shiv Sena (UBT) and Congress has summoned all its winning candidates to Mumbai immediately after the poll results are declared on Saturday.It is not fear of poaching that has driven this decision but the idea that all legislators of the alliance should be under one roof, MVA sources…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday said protection of citizen’s safety and their right to live in safe social environments is as important as incorporating mechanisms in provisions of new penal laws to protect the rights of a person accused in organised crimes, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra.The observationcame from a bench of Justices Surya Kant…
NEW DELHI: The issue of the legality of the insertion of ‘socialism’ in the Preamble of the Constitution through the 42nd amendment during the infamous Emergency, which has simmered for decades, will be decided on Monday. Supreme Court on Friday reserved its order on petitions challenging the changes in the Preamble to put ‘socialism’ and…
BENGALURU: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said India should position itself as a nation practising responsible capitalism. “We need to understand that capitalism also has its limitations. It is important to brand India as a responsible capitalist country, one that knows how to take care of its people, with many of its institutions doing their job,”…
MUMBAI: Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal has stepped down from the board of PhonePe, the fintech which the e-commerce firm had acquired in 2016 under Bansal’s watch and has now separated from Flipkart. In Jan this year, Bansal had also exited the board of Flipkart. Source link
