NEW DELHI: Amul filed a complaint with the Ahmedabad Cyber Crime Police Station against false claims circulating on social media, alleging that the company supplied the ghee used in the Tirupati temple’s prasadam laddoos. The complaint was lodged after several social media posts falsely claimed that the ghee used in the laddoos contained animal fat…
Residents of a village in Bihar wasted no time grabbing fish that Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar had just released into a tank. The incident took place on Friday in Amarpur, Saharsa, during a government exhibition where Kumar was invited to inaugurate a biofloc tank for breeding fish. As soon as the CM left, the…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday spoke to the parents of Anna Sebastian, a 26-year-old Earnest and Young employee who died from ‘work-related stress,’ assuring them he would personally fight for this cause in his capacity as the Leader of the opposition.In a video call arranged by Congress leader Praveen Chakravarty during his…
NEW DELHI: Hitting out at remarks by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah accusing the Congress-National Conference alliance in Jammu and Kashmir of having an agenda that “aligned with Pakistan‘s interests,” Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge strongly refuted the allegations as “false” and retorted: “The BJP may love…
NEW DELHI: Amid uproar over reports showing presence of “foreign substance” in Tirupati laddus, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge reacted to the controversy, saying what is now out in the open is not good news for anyone and demanded stringent action against the culprits in the case. “Whatever has come to light regarding Tirupati Balaji Temple…
NEW DELHI: Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh will take over as the next chief of the IAF from Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari, who retires on Sept 30, the govt announced on Saturday.The government has gone by the seniority principle in appointing Air Marshal Singh, a fighter pilot who was commissioned in Dec 1984,…
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday launched a blistering attack at Mehooba Mufti’s PDP, Farooq Abdullah’s NC and the Congress party, saying the “three families” armed the youth of Jammu and Kashmir while BJP handed them laptops. During a rally at Mendhar in poll-bound J&K, Amit Shah said the Valley witnessed unprecedented…
NEW DELHI: After reports of beef fat and fish oil being found in the cow ghee samples used to make the Tirupati ‘laddu prasadam,’ Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams said that sanctity of the ‘prasadam’ has been restored. The temple trust has also stalled the use of cow-based products temporarily for making Srivari Prasadams.“The sanctity of Srivari…
NEW DELHI: The Kerala Congress’ official Twitter account on Friday mocked a wave of identical tweets related to the Tirupati Laddu controversy. The party highlighted the bizarre uniformity of posts from different accounts sharing the same anecdotal experience about the famous temple prasad, captioning it with a cheeky remark: “One Nation, One Mom.”The tweets, which…
The Sept 16 alert from the Manipur CM’s office states that militants trained in the use of drones and missiles are reportedly grouped in units of 30 and scattered on the periphery, and expected to launch coordinated attacks. GUWAHATI: Manipur CM N Biren Singh’s office has forwarded to cops a purported intelligence alert about influx…
