NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday asked the Bhagwant Mann-led Punjab government to persuade protesting farmers at the Shambhu border to remove tractors from road.The top court said highways are not parking space and noted that partial opening of road at Shambhu border needed for facilitating movement of ambulances, essential services and local commuters.It further…
NEW DELHI: BJP leader Kangana Ranaut launched a bitter attack on Rahul Gandhi as the market on Monday morning shrugged off the fresh Hindenburg Report against the Sebi chief.The Mandi MP tore into the Gandhi scion for “endorsing” the US-based short-seller report and accused him of “destabilising” the nation‘s security and economy.Calling Rahul Gandhi “bitter,…
NEW DELHI: Sandip Ghosh, the principal of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, on Monday stepped down from this position amid a protest in the wake of the brutal rape and murder of a second-year PGT doctor.The protesting resident and junior doctors on Friday had demanded Sandip Ghosh’s resignation, setting a 12-hour deadline for his…
NEW DELHI: A married woman in Ludhiana was allegedly gang-raped by a man and three of his family members in an act of revenge, according to police officials. The accused reportedly committed the crime after the man’s daughter eloped with the victim’s brother. The accused, hailing from Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, allegedly recorded the act on…
NEW DELHI: At least 7 were killed and 9 injured after a stampede broke out at Baba Siddhnath Temple in Makhdumpur in Bihar‘s Jehanabad district. “DM and SP visited the spot and they are taking stock of the situation,” SHO of Jehanabad, Divakar Kumar Vishwakarma told news agency ANI.The SHO confirmed that they are in…
NEW DELHI: Government is unlikely to immediately step into the controversy created by the Hindenburg report as senior officials believe that the charges against Sebi chief Madhabi Puri Buch and her husband Dhaval, are “untrue and malicious” and are in response to the regulator‘s notice to the short seller. They alleged that Hindenburg may also…
NEW DELHI: Maldives is very much at the heart of India’s ‘Neighbourhood First’ policy and a key partner in Indian Ocean Region (IOR), foreign minister S Jaishankar said as he joined his counterpart Moosa Zameer in Addu city in inaugurating the Addu reclamation and shore protection project and Addu detour link bridge project facilitated by…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party’s Dalit functionaries have dubbed the proposal of sub-categorisation of Scheduled Castes a ploy to “divide and rule”, arguing that the party stands strongly for the unity of the community as prescribed by Ambedkar.Veteran MPs RK Chaudhary and Awadhesh Prasad told TOI that division of SCs into sub-groups will sound the death…
PUNE: Extreme rainfall events in India may see a significant rise by the end of this century with the Western Ghats and central India likely to be most affected, reports Neha Madaan.An Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) study published recently in ‘Nature’ attributed the likely rise to high carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere….
KOLHAPUR: NCP-SCP chief Sharad Pawar faced the ire of Maratha activists who halted his convoy in Kurduvadi in Maharashtra’s Solapur district and later an activist tried self-immolation during his rally in Barshi on Sunday.The activists demanded Pawar to clear his stance on Maratha reservation. They let him go after he expressed support for their cause.However,…
