MUMBAI: In the charged poll season, candidates are going all out on social media to ensure messages make a lasting impression. Timelines are buzzing as incumbents and new contenders work overtime to amplify their reach, using hashtags to stand out.From assembly speaker Rahul Narwekar, who is using #PaanchSaalBemisaal to highlight his work in Colaba since…
BHOPAL: BJP MP from MP’s Rewa constituency, 68-year-old Janardan Mishra, on Saturday gave a bizarre speech on love, marriage and mobile phones in the presence of Governor Mangubhai Patel.“I was thinking that people have started getting married online. Some 50-60 years later, when babies are born online, will these babies be made of steel or…
BHOPAL: Robbers hacked off both legs of a 75-year-old woman in MP’s Sehore district to steal her silver anklets and threw her in a drain. She bled to death through the night.The victim, Motan Bai, was attacked in Guradia Rupchand village in Ashta region, 90km from Bhopal, on Friday evening. Her family grew alarmed when…
GUWAHATI: Within 48 hours after a tribal woman, a mother of three, was immolated by armed miscreants in Manipur’s Jiribam district on Thursday night, another woman was gunned down by suspected hill-based militants in Bishnupur district on Saturday.The woman was working with other farmers, while harvesting paddy, when suspected militants opened fire from the hill…
In a first-of-its-kind campaign, social media lit up with cinematic AI-powered election ads from Maharashtra’s deputy CM Ajit Pawar that racked up thousands of views and plenty of chatter.In one video, a young girl in a village takes a break from household chores under a tree when a newspaper lands on her lap with a…
RAIPUR: The suspected poisoning of a tiger in Guru Ghasidas National Park in Chhattisgarh on Friday – the second tiger death here in two years — has rung the alarm bells at a time when there is controversy over the delay in designating the park as a tiger reserve.The demise is also mired in conflicting…
JAMSHEDPUR: On the second day of his campaign blitzkrieg in Jharkhand, Rahul Gandhi on Saturday claimed that inflation and unemployment had reached an all-time high under PM Narendra Modi-led NDA govt, and singled out “politics of hate, violence, and anger” as the reasons behind what he alleged was a crashing economy.Addressing election rallies in Jamshedpur…
TOI correspondent from London: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s attempts to woo British Indians by hosting a Diwali party at No 10 has backfired after it emerged that alcohol and meat were served, offending many in the diaspora.Community leaders, Labour MPs, Labour councillors and members of the armed forces attended the annual event which involved…
Relatives and locals during the funeral of Village Defence Guard (VDG) Nazir Ahmed, who was killed by terrorists, in Kishtwar district (Pic credit: PTI) JAMMU: Residents of Ohli village in Kishtwar district of Jammu region gathered Saturday to bid a tearful farewell to two local village defence guards (VDGs) and friends whose bodies were discovered…
US President-elect Donald Trump has accepted an invitation from US President Joe Biden for a meeting at the White House on Wednesday, White House spokesperson said on Saturday.Following his victory over vice president Kamala Harris in the November 5 presidential election, Trump is set to assume office on January 20.“At President Biden’s invitation, President Biden…
