RAIPUR: Congress leader and former Godri Nagar Panchayat president, Jagdish Kaushik, who had been on a fast unto death for the past three days protesting the candidacy of Devendra Yadav — an MLA from Bhilai Nagar as the Lok Sabha candidate for the Bilaspur seat — ended his hunger strike on Friday. Congress Bilaspur district…
VARANASI: The widow of UP BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai described the death of Mukhtar Ansari, gangster-turned-politician who had killed her husband in 2005, as a “blessing” from God.Ansari (63) died after suffering cardiac arrest in Banda jail on Thursday. “It (Ansari’s death) is a blessing of Baba (Lord Shiva). We always prayed to Baba for…
VARANASI: The widow of UP BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai described the death of Mukhtar Ansari, gangster-turned-politician who had killed her husband in 2005, as a “blessing” from God.Ansari (63) died after suffering cardiac arrest in Banda jail on Thursday. “It (Ansari’s death) is a blessing of Baba (Lord Shiva). We always prayed to Baba for…
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday targeted Uttar Pradesh‘s Yogi Adityanath-led BJP govt over gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari‘s death in jail, demanding that all such suspicious fatalities in custody be probed under the supervision of a Supreme Court judge. BSP chief Mayawati also pressed for a high-level probe into Ansari’s death.“UP is passing through…
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday targeted Uttar Pradesh‘s Yogi Adityanath-led BJP govt over gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari‘s death in jail, demanding that all such suspicious fatalities in custody be probed under the supervision of a Supreme Court judge. BSP chief Mayawati also pressed for a high-level probe into Ansari’s death.“UP is passing through…
KOLKATA: Swami Gautamananda has been appointed interim president of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. The Bengaluru-born 95-year-old monk – presently the senior-most vice-president of the Order – had joined the Ramakrishna Movement in 1951 and received his early spiritual training under Swami Ranganathananda. He was ordained as a monk in 1966 by Swami Vireshwarananda, the…
KARNAL: Cousins Mukesh (21) and Sunny (24), from Haryana, have claimed that more than 200 men, mostly from South Asia, are trapped in camps set up by fraudulent immigration agents in a Russian forest on the border between Russia and Belarus. These agents then force them to join the Russian army, they claimed.The cousins said…
Uttarakhand village that called poll boycott to get road ‘in 8 months’ DEHRADUN: After a long wait, Dumak might get a road by the year-end. After TOI reported Thursday that the 250-odd voters in Dumak had decided to boycott polls over the promised road, Uttarakhand Rural Roads Development Agency (URRDA) CEO Kamrendra Singh issued a…
DEHRADUN: After a long wait, Dumak might get a road by the year-end. After TOI reported Thursday that the 250-odd voters in Dumak had decided to boycott polls over the promised road, Uttarakhand Rural Roads Development Agency (URRDA) CEO Kamrendra Singh issued a statement saying pending work on the road will be completed in eight…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Friday dismissed Congress’ angry protests over I-T action against it saying that the opposition party is trying to distract attention from its failure to obey the laws which apply to political parties as well as all tax payers and is trying to obfuscate the fact that the latest notice of income…
