Uddhav Thackeray, Rahul Gandhi. (Photo/Agencies) MUMBAI/PUNE/NAGPUR: A day after Jammu & Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah sought clarity on whether INDIA bloc had reached its expiry date, the alliance’s Maharashtra-specific version, MVA, on Friday seemed to implode into a blame game over its recent assembly election defeat.Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut said that now his…
KOTTAYAM: A teenage girl has claimed she was allegedly sexually abused by around 64 people over approximately four years in Kerala’s Pathanamthitta district. Police said five suspects have been arrested in this connection and a sixth is already in prison. The girl turned 18 two months ago.According to Pathanamthitta child welfare committee chairman Rajeev N,…
NEW DELHI: In a relief to a batch of students who dropped one year of study in engineering colleges to take IIT-Advanced exam after maximum attempts were increased to three, Supreme Court on Friday directed they be allowed to appear in the entrance exam which is their third attempt despite the joint admission board withdrawing…
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath inspects preparations for the Mahakumbh 2025, in Prayagraj. (PTI Photo) PRAYAGRAJ: UP CM Yogi Adityanath on Friday said “those who believe they are Indians and have respect for sanatan dharma” could visit Mahakumbh in Prayagraj and wouldn’t be stopped. He was responding to a question whether Muslims would be…
Unable to cope with his father’s refusal, the boy hanged himself, prompting the father to do the same upon discovering his son’s body. Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident. CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: A Std X student’s aspiration for a smartphone and his farmer father’s inability to afford the gadget took a tragic turn as…
SANGAM (PRAYAGRAJ): Their boat sunk in a whirlpool, they endured dengue, skipped functions and festivals, got accustomed to motion sickness, made scuba dives to fix 350mm pipes weighing 80kg amid vigorous currents of the Ganga, and operated non-stop for 80 days with four dredgers weighing 20-40 tons to execute an engineering marvel ahead of Maha…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a podcast with Nikhil Kamath, in Delhi. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: PM Modi said the decision of US authorities to cancel his visa was taken on the basis of “falsehoods” peddled by some people and it rankled with him because it was an insult to a democratically elected govt and…
BJP headquarters in New Delhi. (File photo) NEW DELHI: Two major national political parties have continued occupying govt bungalows in Lutyens’ Delhi for their party offices, even years after building their own headquarters or getting land for the purpose, flouting norms.Though the policy specifies that three years after getting land for office or completing construction,…
BENGALURU: A 28-year-old techie fell prey to digital arrest by fraudsters and lost more than Rs 1.2 crore between Dec 21 and Jan 3. She was even forced to raise a loan of Rs 40 lakh to continue to pay the cybercrooks after they emptied her savings.Keerthana (name changed) from east Bengaluru, in her complaint…
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat recorded its fourth and Ahmedabad its third case of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) on Friday, after a nine-month-old boy admitted to a hospital tested positive.It is the second case on the second consecutive day for the city.According to Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) data, the child was admitted to a private hospital in South Bopal….
