NEW DELHI: The TMC on Thursday put the blame squarely on Congress’s Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury after a seat-sharing deal failed to materialize between the two parties.Trinamool Congress leader Derek O’Brien said that there were three reasons why the alliance didn’t work out in West Bengal: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.His…
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday issued a fresh summons to Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren and asked him to record a statement in a money laundering case between January 27 and 31.The fresh summons comes days after a team of ED questioned the Jharkhand chief minister in connection with the Ranchi land…
Holy men on a mission to civil servants who defied their superiors, here are some of the protagonists of Ram Janmabhoomi movementRaghubar DasThe Nirmohi Akhara mahant moved a local court in 1885 for permission to build a ‘mandap’ for Ram’s worship on the ‘chabutra’, or platform, in front of Babri Masjid. After his plea was…
NEW DELHI: The ministry of civil aviation on Sunday confirmed the aircraft, that crashed in Afghanistan, was a Moroccan-registered DF-10 (Dassault Falcon), and not an aircraft operated by Indian carriers. This update comes amid initial reports that mistakenly identified the aircraft as Indian. In an official statement, the ministry said that the DF-10, operating as…
NEW DELHI: A Supreme Court bench of then CJI Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S A Bobde, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer had settled a more than 150-year-old Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute through a unanimous verdict in November 2019 by allowing construction of Ram Temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya,…
MUMBAI: The recent rally in the stock price of life insurance major LIC on Wednesday helped it replace banking major SBI as the most valued government-run company in the country. At the close of the day’s trade, LIC had a market capitalisation of Rs 5.61 lakh crore compared to SBI’s Rs 5.59 lakh crore, BSE…
NEW DELHI: Navy will begin deploying a small batch of women Agniveers, who now number 1,119 in the force, as sailors on frontline warships, towards end-Feb to join the almost 50 women officers already serving on them.Lt Commander Prerna Deosthalee is also set to soon take over as the first woman commanding officer of a…
NEW DELHI: Two years prior to the nationwide ‘Me Too’ movement, a Muslim woman in 2016 had lodged an FIR at a police station in Assam accusing a Hindu man of sexually assaulting her in 1982 when she was a minor and cited birth of a male child in 1983 to corroborate the rape, a…
KOLKATA: In a first, Calcutta HC established Wednesday a joint special investigation team (SIT) comprising both CBI and Bengal police to investigate the attack on ED officers in Sandeshkhali on Jan 5. “To unearth the truth and apprehend the miscreants responsible, a concerted effort is required from both central and state agencies,” HC said, while…
Nearly 43% of children in the 14-18 age group cannot read sentences in English, while among their rural counterparts, 25% struggle to read a Class 2 level text in their respective regional language, shows the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2023. And more than half of the children in rural areas struggle with even…
