NEW DELHI: Turning down the plea of the Sharad Pawar faction of NCP, Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the breakaway group led by Ajit Pawar to use the ‘clock’ symbol for Maharashtra assembly polls with the caveat that the deputy CM should mention in all print and audio/visual advertisements of the party that litigation over…
PUNE: NCP (SCP) gave tickets to 11 of its 12 sitting MLAs in its first list of 45 candidates for Maharashtra assembly polls released on Thursday.In at least 13 seats, NCP (SCP), led by Sharad Pawar, will take on the NCP faction led by Pawar’s nephew and deputy CM Ajit Pawar. Baramati will witness a…
KOPPAL: A sessions court in Karnataka on Thursday sentenced 98 people to life imprisonment and handed five-year jail terms to three others in a 2014 case of discrimination and caste violence targeting Dalits at Marakumbi village of Gangavati taluk.Judge Chandrasekhar C convicted 101 people in the case, of whom three received lighter sentences because Scheduled…
NEW DELHI: A development that is expected to help farmers better plan their sowing and harvesting schedule and prepare for climate-related risks, the central government on Thursday launched the “gram panchayat level weather forecasting” initiative that will enable residents of the over 2.5 lakh gram panchayats to have access to localised weather information with a…
MUMBAI: In probably a first for India, industrialist and philanthropist Ratan Tata has made provisions in his will to ensure “unlimited” care for his German Shepherd, Tito. While leaving wealth for pets is not uncommon in the West, this is rare in India. Ratan Tata, whose estate is estimated at over Rs 10,000 crore, also…
NEW DELHI: Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch on Thursday cited “personal exigencies” to skip Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting, which soon led to a fight between the panel’s head K C Venugopal and NDA members who accused him of taking unilateral decisions and proceeded to lodge a protest with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.The…
Leader of opposition Vijay Wadettiwar MUMBAI: A day after Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut declared that MVA partners Congress, NCP (SP) and UBT Sena would contest 85 seats each, a top Congress politician said that his party would contest 104 seats, while UBT Sena and NCP-SP would fight from 94 and 84 seats respectively.“The…
NEW DELHI: Indian and Chinese troops have kicked off the process to disengage in phases at Depsang and Demchok in eastern Ladakh, even as defence minister Rajnath Singh Thursday said “broad consensus” has been reached to restore “ground situation” in some areas on principles of equal and mutual security.“The dismantling of temporary posts and structures…
Srinagar: Two soldiers of 18 Rashtriya Rifles and two porters were killed in a terrorist ambush on a military truck carrying supplies near the Nagin area of Botapathri along the LoC, 11km from Gulmarg in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Thursday evening.Three more RR men and two porters were wounded in the fourth terrorist attack…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan authorities Thursday released Bushra Bibi, wife of jailed former PM Imran Khan, from prison in Rawalpindi, a day after Islamabad high court granted her bail in an alleged graft case involving purchase and sale of state gifts.Bibi, 50, was arrested on January 31. She and her husband were convicted of corruption and illegal…
