NEW DELHI: Amid uproar over reports showing presence of “foreign substance” in Tirupati laddus, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge reacted to the controversy, saying what is now out in the open is not good news for anyone and demanded stringent action against the culprits in the case. “Whatever has come to light regarding Tirupati Balaji Temple…
NEW DELHI: Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh will take over as the next chief of the IAF from Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari, who retires on Sept 30, the govt announced on Saturday.The government has gone by the seniority principle in appointing Air Marshal Singh, a fighter pilot who was commissioned in Dec 1984,…
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday launched a blistering attack at Mehooba Mufti’s PDP, Farooq Abdullah’s NC and the Congress party, saying the “three families” armed the youth of Jammu and Kashmir while BJP handed them laptops. During a rally at Mendhar in poll-bound J&K, Amit Shah said the Valley witnessed unprecedented…
NEW DELHI: After reports of beef fat and fish oil being found in the cow ghee samples used to make the Tirupati ‘laddu prasadam,’ Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams said that sanctity of the ‘prasadam’ has been restored. The temple trust has also stalled the use of cow-based products temporarily for making Srivari Prasadams.“The sanctity of Srivari…
NEW DELHI: The Kerala Congress’ official Twitter account on Friday mocked a wave of identical tweets related to the Tirupati Laddu controversy. The party highlighted the bizarre uniformity of posts from different accounts sharing the same anecdotal experience about the famous temple prasad, captioning it with a cheeky remark: “One Nation, One Mom.”The tweets, which…
The Sept 16 alert from the Manipur CM’s office states that militants trained in the use of drones and missiles are reportedly grouped in units of 30 and scattered on the periphery, and expected to launch coordinated attacks. GUWAHATI: Manipur CM N Biren Singh’s office has forwarded to cops a purported intelligence alert about influx…
Sources said the history-sheeter, who recently walked out on bail, had been pressuring the deceased’s sister to drop her complaint against him. KANPUR: A 30-year-old man whose sister was a witness in a case against a notorious history-sheeter who is out on bail was beaten to death in a busy street in Shastri Chowk area…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday took a dim view of Karnataka HC judge V Srishananda’s purported gratuitous reference to a Muslim-majority Bengaluru locality as Pakistan, and said it would consider laying down guidelines to keep judges from getting carried away during judicial proceedings and ending up being the butt of ridicule on social media.CJI…
CBI casting aspersions that entire judiciary is hostile: SC NEW DELHI: CBI‘s complaint that it is having to contend with hostlity in the courts in West Bengal drew sharp reaction from Supreme Court which pulled it up for casting aspersions on the judiciary by branding all courts in the state as hostile, reports Amit Anand…
A Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) truck gets stuck after it fell upside down into a sinkhole at the City Post Office in Budwar Peth area premises during the ongoing drainage cleaning work, in Pune on Friday. A truck belonging to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) sanitation department plunged into a sinkhole that opened up on…
