NEW DELHI: Raising delay in conducting census by more than four years, Congress MP Sonia Gandhi, in her maiden intervention in Rajya Sabha Monday, said around 14 crore people are being deprived of benefits under National Food Security Act (NFSA). She said the quota for beneficiaries is still determined based on the 2011 census, which…
NAGPUR: Indravati national park in Chhattisgarh‘s Bijapur, which also houses a tiger reserve, was a safe hideout for Maoists till Sunday, when 31 guerrillas were shot in one of the bloodiest encounters with security forces till date. Peoples’ Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA), which is tottering in its headquarters at Abujmarh, was compelled to concede a…
KOLKATA: Congress’s inflexibility in Delhi and AAP‘s intransigence in Haryana led to BJP victories in assembly elections there, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said on Monday while declaring that Trinamool Congress wasn’t banking on anyone’s support to return to govt in the state by a two-thirds majority next year.“We won’t need anybody’s support. But everyone in…
GUWAHATI: The search for a consensus face to succeed N Biren Singh as Manipur CM could stretch until Wednesday as BJP’s North-East incharge Sambit Patra scans a clutch of prospective candidates seeking to drive the Meitei-Kuki “reconciliation” agenda. At least one contender – cabinet minister and known Biren baiter Yumnam Khemchand Singh – put his…
NEW DELHI: India’s expansive strategic partnership with France is set to get a further boost with two mega deals being virtually finalised for direct acquisition of 26 Rafale-Marine fighters, as well as the construction of three additional Scorpene submarines, which will collectively be worth almost Rs 1 lakh crore (Euro 10.6 billion).As PM Narendra Modi…
AMRITSAR: Punjab Police arrested three men allegedly responsible for an explosion near Fatehgarh Churian police outpost on February 3. Two of them received bullet injuries during a failed attempt to flee police custody.Amritsar’s police commissioner Gurpreet Singh Bhullar on Monday said accused Lovepreet Singh ‘Labha’, Karandeep Singh ‘Karan’, and Buta Singh are from Ajnala and…
AHMEDABAD: Three men died after drinking “jeera soda” from a bottle in Nadiad town of Kheda late on Sunday evening. Senior police officers have ruled it out to be a case of spurious liquor consumption as no traces of methanol were found in their bodies. Police officials suspect it to be either a case of…
NEW DELHI: Acknowledging that Ratan Tata is a well-known figure whose trademark deserves protection, the Delhi high court has restrained a third party from unauthorised use of the late industrialist’s name.Dealing with a suit filed by the Tata Group and Sir Ratan Tata Trust, the High Court observed last week that it is “manifest that…
TOI CORRESPONDENT FROM LONDON: Elon Musk has backed a British MP’s disapproval of a sign at Whitechapel London Underground station being written in Bengali.Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe, who Musk frequently retweets, and whose party is opposed to immigration, tweeted a photo of Whitechapel station showing its sign in English and in Bengali script and…
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha witnessed a faceoff between Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar and leader of opposition Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday when the former announced that a starred question on non-payment of dues to authorities by builders in Noida and other cities of Uttar Pradesh had been “withdrawn”, moments before it was to be taken up.Kharge asked…
