NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday alleged that BJP has set a “pattern of encounters” and reffered to the deaths of crime suspects in police shootouts as “fake”.Akhilesh Yadav outlined the alleged pattern in a post on X, stating, “A pattern of encounters has been set in BJP rule: Pick someone first,…
NEW DELHI: Sikh leaders from Delhi BJP’s Sikh cell on Wednesday staged a protest against leader of opposition and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi after his remarks on the Sikh community in the US caused a political uproar back here in India.The demonstrators gathered near Gandhi’s residence at 10 Janpath, chanting slogans and carrying placards as…
NEW DELHI: Baramulla MP Engineer Rashid released from Tihar Jail on Wednesday after receiving interim bail. The court granted him bail till October 2, allowing him to campaign for the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections.Rashid had been in jail since 2019, arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act…
NEW DELHI: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, who is in J&K to drum up support for the party, exuded confidence that the Congress party and INDIA bloc’s good run in the Lok Sabha polls will continue in the upcoming J&K assembly elections as well. The Congress chief also used the occasion to belittle the BJP‘s performance…
NEW DELHI: Several BJP leaders on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on Congress leader and Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi, following his meeting with US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. BJP IT Cell chief Amit Malviya accused Gandhi and the Congress party of aligning with anti-India forces.Malviya took to X, alleging, “India’s leader of opposition…
NEW DELHI: An encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists on Wednesday in the upper regions of Basantgarh, situated in Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur district, according to authorities. The exchange of fire occurred when a combined unit of the Army‘s first para and police personnel advanced towards Khandara top, acting on intelligence regarding the…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Wednesday upheld an earlier ruling directing SpiceJet Airlines to ground three of its aircraft engines due to payment defaults to French engine lessors. The court rejected SpiceJet’s appeal against the order, which required the airline to return the engines to the lessors, Team France 01 SAS and Sunbird…
An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale hit Pakistan on Wedenesday, causing mild tremors in Delhi and several regions of North India, according to National Center for Seismology. The quake’s epicenter was located 25 km south-west of Karor, Pakistan, at a depth of 10 km. The tremors were also felt in major Pakistani cities,…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Tuesday levelled fresh allegations of “conflict of interest” against Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and said that an advisory firm in which she held 99% stake had provided consultancy services to the Mahindra and Mahindra Group, Dr Reddy’s, ICICI, Pidilite Industries, Sembcorp and Visu Leasing and Finance, while she held senior…
NEW DELHI: Senior BJP leaders seized upon veteran Congress functionary Sushil Kumar Shinde‘s remark that he was trembling with fear while visiting Lal Chowk in Srinagar as home minister under UPA-2.Union minister Piyush Goyal and former I&B minister Anurag Thakur cited Shinde’s remark at the launch of his memoirs on Monday as symbolising the fear…
