NEW DELHI: Soaring heatwave across the northern plains on Thursday claimed 8 lives in Bihar. According to the IMD data, the mercury reached 44 degrees Celsius in many parts of the state.The disaster management department confirmed the number of deaths. However, cause of death could not be ascertained since many bereaved families have declined post-mortem…
NEW DELHI: Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi wrapped up their Lok Sabha election campaign on Thursday, expressing confidence that the INDIA bloc will emerge victorious in the general elections.Throughout the campaign, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi participated in over 100 rallies and public interaction programs across the country.In a self-made video, the…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s whirlwind Lok Sabha election campaign, which included a total of 206 public outreach programmes – some laced with a lot of acrimony and aggression, ended on Thursday with a rally in Punjab’s Hoshiyarpur. The Prime Minister also gave a total of 80 media interviews, averaging more than one daily…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi court on Thursday issued notice to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on the regular bail plea filed by Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in the excise policy case. Delhi’s Rouse Avenue court, presided over by special judge Kaveri Baweja, instructed the ED to submit its response to the plea by June 1.The…
NEW DELHI: Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing charges of sexually abusing women, is set to return to India from Germany. Prajwal, facing charges of sexually abusing several women, had said in a video statement earlier this week that he would return on May 31 and appear before a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing…
NEW DELHI: Following the conclusion of election campaign for Lok Sabha Elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Kanniyakumari where he will meditate till June 1. During this time, he will visit the iconic Vivekananda Rock Memorial and meditate at the Dhyan Mandapam, the same spot where Swami Vivekananda once meditated.At the end of the…
BHUBANESWAR: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday clarified that VK Pandian is not his political successor, stating that people of Odisha will make that decision. Despite Naveen never explicitly naming Pandian as his successor, the Tamil IAS officer turned BJD politician’s prominent role had fuelled speculation about his potential to succeed Naveen.“He is not my…
NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Thursday responded to former Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif‘s admission that Islamabad “violated” 1999 Lahore Declaration signed between the two countries.During its weekly press briefing, ministry of external affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, “You are aware of our position on the issue. It is true that even in…
NEW DELHI: Upping the ante against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday accused the leader of using divisive language during the Lok Sabha Elections campaign. Kharge alleged that PM Modi mentioned ‘mandir-masjid‘ and other divisive topics 421 times during his election campaign, despite the Election Commission’s guidelines prohibiting appeals for votes…
NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs (MEA) on Thursday said that no formal proposal for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) with the Maldives has been made by the government of India. This follows remarks by Maldives’ minister who said that India has shown interest in creating an FTA with the Maldives. MEA spokesperson…
