JALGAON: Crimes against women are “unpardonable,” PM Narendra PM Modi asserted Sunday and urged every state govt to take strict action. “The security of women is very important… Not only must the culprit be sternly punished for committing such crimes, but all those who try to protect them must be dealt with an iron hand,”…
NEW DELHI: Five Aam Aadmi Party councillors in the MCD switched their allegiance to the BJP on Sunday. BJP leaders believe this development will enhance their prospects in the forthcoming standing committee elections.The councillors who joined BJP are Ram Chander from Shahbad Dairy (ward 28), Pawan Sehrawat from Bawana (ward 30), Mamata Pawan from Harkesh…
KOLKATA: The High Court-ordered CBI probe into alleged corruption at Kolkata’s RG Kar hospital took off Sunday with the agency conducting coordinated raids on 14 locations that included former principal Sandip Ghosh‘s house and premises belonging to some health department officials and at least two vendors.CBI’s FIR against Ghosh, filed the previous evening, names a…
BJP on Sunday said that implementing UPS was a commendable and meaningful decision as PM Narendra Modi has always taken keen interest in issues concerning central govt employees and had set up the Somanathan Committee to address them.“Modi govt makes decisions with thoughtful consideration, avoiding temporary measures. Every decision made by it is in public…
BIJNOR: In a bizarre incident, a Dhanbad-bound Express train split into two, leaving its last eight coaches stranded as it approached Chakrajmal village just before Seohara railway station in Bijnor around 4am on Sunday. The stranded coaches eventually came to a stop near Raipur village, leaving passengers confused and anxious as to what had happened.The…
NEW DELHI: Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his comment that there were no “Dalits and adivasis” in the list of contestants in the Miss India beauty pageant and said the statement was something that could only come from a “bal buddhi (juvenile)”.“Now, he wants reservations in…
MUMBAI: A 25-year-old resident of Khar was arrested in less than 24 hours after he allegedly threatened to rape a 49-year-old businesswoman after she called him out for riding his bike into a no-entry lane at Pali Hill Naka in Bandra last Friday. Police tracked Sagar Gujar down based on CCTV footage from the location…
JAMMU: Ghulam Nabi Azad’s DPAP on Sunday issued its first list of candidates for 13 seats in the first phase of Jammu & Kashmir assembly polls on Sept 18.Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP also named seven of its candidates for the state’s first assembly election since the abrogation of Article 370.DPAP’s has picked former J&K…
NEW DELHI: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Sunday took a shot at People’s Democratic Party leader Mehbooba Mufti on her proposal to support the National Conference and Congress alliance in the upcoming J&K assembly elections, if they agree upon her party’s agenda. Abdullah asked Mehbooba to not field candidates against NC-Congress as their agenda…
NEW DELHI: A 28-year-old student of Tata Institute of Social Sciences was found dead in his rented apartment on Sunday. The Human Resource student, Anurag Jaiswal, was reportedly heavily intoxicated and had attended a party with 125 people the night before.Officials said that when he did not wake up in the morning, he was taken…
