NEW DELHI: Five security personnel were injured after terrorists opened fire on two vehicles, including one belonging to the Indian Air Force (IAF), in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district on Saturday, officials said.The attack took place near Shashidhar in evening as the vehicles were en route to Sanai Top in the Surankote area of the…
NEW DELHI: Janata Dal (Secular) party leader HD Revanna has been taken into custody by Special Investigation Team (SIT) officials in Karnataka on Sunday. The arrest is related to a kidnapping case filed against him at the KR Nagar police station in Bengaluru. The action was taken based on a complaint lodged by the son…
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NEW DELHI: Arvinder Singh Lovely on Saturday joined Bharatiya Janata Party days after he resigned as the Delhi Congress chief.Lovely had resigned from Congress state president citing the alliance with AAP as his reason. He said that despite Aam Aadmi Party accusing the Congress over corruption, the grand old party allied with them. “We have…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a rally speech on Saturday, claimed that the previous Congress governments’ approach towards Pakistan was ‘weak’ in handling terrorism issues. He highlighted that past administrations resorted to sending ‘love letters’ to Pakistan, hoping for peace, only to receive more terrorists in response.PM Modi highlighted a significant shift in…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday wrote a letter to Karnanataka chief minister Siddharamaiah and and asked him extend support to victims of Prajwal Revanna‘s sexual assaults.“Congress party has a moral duty to fight for justice for our mothers and sisters. I understand that the Karnataka Government has constituted a Special Investigation Team…
NEW DELHI: 75 International visitors from Election Management Bodies (EMBs) of 23 countries came to India to watch the world’s largest elections unfold, according to the Election Commission press release. “75 delegates representing various EMBs and organisations from 23 countries namely – Bhutan, Mongolia, Australia, Madagascar, Fiji, Kyrgyz Republic, Russia, Moldova, Tunisia, Seychelles, Cambodia, Nepal,…
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader and party candidate from Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency, Tatiparthi Jeevan Reddy, found himself embroiled in a controversy following an incident where he slapped a woman after she allegedly expressed her intention to vote for the ‘flower’ symbol in the upcoming May 13 election.A video capturing the former minister’s action during…
NEW DELHI: Govt on Saturday lifted the ban on onion export, a move that will bring huge relief to traders in Maharashtra. This also comes just before the next phases of Lok Sabha election, particularly in the onion belts in Maharashtra. In a notification, the Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) fixed the Minimum Export…
BHUBANESHWAR: Santrupt Misra (58), former HR head of Aditya Birla Group who is contesting the Lok Sabha election on a BJD ticket from Cuttack, has declared assets worth about Rs 461 crore in his poll affidavit, making him the richest candidate to have filed nomination so far in Odisha.Misra joined BJD in Feb after opting…
