GUWAHATI: An influential Meitei organisation has appealed to PM Modi to replace Manipur CM Biren Singh, citing his “inability to restore normalcy” after 17 months of ethnic violence in the state.“We hope that with a new leader at the helm, peace and normalcy can be reinstated in Manipur,” World Meetei Council said Monday in a…
PATNA: BJP Lok Sabha MP from Araria Pradeep Kumar Singh stirred a controversy on Tuesday, saying, “Araria mein rahna hai toh Hindu banna padega (If you want to live in Araria, you will have to become Hindu).” The governing ally JD(U) joined the opposition alliance in Bihar to condemn Singh. Araria is one of the…
AHMEDABAD: Some lawyers like to take up causes pro bono (free). Morris Christian prefers to act suo motu-on his own, in his own “court”.That was the case history of the Ahmedabad advocate until Monday when he was arrested on a local court’s directive for passing orders “like the chief court of the nation, like a…
Two local criminals of Canada, arrested on charges of killing Sikh businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik – a rival of slain terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar – have pleaded guilty in a Canadian court, confirming a gangland killing angle. Malik was an accused in the 1985 bombing of an Air India flight (named after Kanishka) that killed…
NAGPUR: Captain Reena Varughese was a rookie pilot in 2009 when Maoists shot down a helicopter ferrying senior police and polling officials in Laheri on the fringes of Abujmarh, the ‘People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army’ (PLGA) headquarters straddling Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh.Fifteen years later, Varughese knew what she was getting into when her 13-seater Dauphin-N Pawan Hans…
NEW DELHI: In what was his first bilateral meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, PM Narendra Modi expressed deep concern over the widening of the conflict in West Asia and reiterated India’s call to de-escalate the situation. The meeting took place amid the looming threat of Israeli retaliatory strikes on Iran, following the missile attack…
Modi and Putin in Kazan Tuesday. ‘We have such a relationship that I feel you do not need any translation,’ Putin told the PM. (Reuters) In their second bilateral meeting this year, PM Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the Russia-Ukraine conflict “should be resolved only through peaceful means”, while saying that India fully…
Canada’s New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh speaks to journalists before Question Period in the House of Commons foyer on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada October 2, 2024. (Reuters) TOI CORRESPONDENT FROM LONDON: Canadian NDP MPs speaking during an emergency debate in parliament on foreign interference from the Indian government in Canada have called…
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Police’s counter-intelligence wing on Tuesday dismantled a recruitment module of Tehreek-Labaik-Ya-Muslim (TLM), a newly formed terrorist outfit believed to be an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), following raids at 10 locations across seven districts.According to a statement by Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK), a Pakistani LeT handler going by the alias of ‘Baba…
NEW DELHI: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) on Tuesday released a list of 45 candidates for the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections. Raj Thackeray‘s son Amit is set to make electoral debut from Mahim.The party has nominated Sandeep Deshpande to contest from Worli in south-central Mumbai, where he is expected to face off against Shiv Sena (UBT)…
