NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday released its second list of 21 candidates for the Haryana assembly elections. The saffron party has fielded Captain Yogesh Bairagi against Congress‘s Vinesh Phogat in Julana and Pradeep Sangwan.Manish Grover will contest from Rohtak, Sanjay Singh from Nuh and Pradeep Sangwan from Baroda for the upcoming polls. BJP had released…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday strongly criticized Rahul Gandhi‘s comments about Sikhs during his visit to the United States, and accused the Congress leader of promoting a dangerous narrative while abroad.Addressing a press conference, Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that the Modi government has gone out of its way to…
NEW DELHI: A curfew has been imposed on Tuesday in Imphal East, Imphal West, and Thoubal districts of Manipur due to escalating law and order concerns. The district magistrate of Imphal East, in an order dated September 10, canceled a previously issued curfew relaxation and enforced a total curfew from 11:00 am. Essential services including…
NEW DELHI: The general secretary of CPM, Sitaram Yechury is currently in critical condition and receiving respiratory support at AIIMS in New Delhi, according to a statement released by his party on Tuesday. The 72-year-old leader is undergoing treatment for an acute respiratory tract infection in the hospital’s ICU.The party further stated that Yechury’s condition…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday released its second list of 9 candidates for the Haryana assembly elections. AAP has fielded Krishan Bajaj from Thanesar and Pravesh Mehta from Faridabad, as per the released list.Rita Bamaniya has been given a ticket from Sadhaura, Hawa Singh from Indri and Mukhtiyar Singh Bazigar from Ratiya. Meanwhile,…
NEW DELHI: The Union health ministry on Monday confirmed that the person who was recently isolated on arrival to India from an African country is positive for the Monkeypox (Mpox) virus.However, the ministry clarified, the strain of the Mpox virus affecting the person, West African clade 2, is not part of the current public health…
NEW DELHI: Amid renewed violence in Manipur, Congress Monday said PM Narendra Modi thinks it’s more important to intervene in the Ukraine conflict than to rein in violence in the north-eastern state, as it demanded that CM Biren Singh be sacked and serious steps be taken to restore normalcy. It also said SC-mandated inquiry panel…
GUWAHATI: Hundreds of enraged students clashed with police in Imphal Monday following the killing of a retired havildar and a woman the night before in a resurgence of violence that has claimed 11 lives since Sept 1. The unrest in the state escalated into large-scale protests, shifting the epicentre of violence to Manipur‘s Raj Bhavan…
NEW DELHI: In a setback to Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira, Supreme Court dismissed their pleas to quash ED summonses in a case of alleged illegal mining in Eastern Coalfields Ltd and held that an accused cannot claim protection under Article 20(3) of the Constitution at the stage of summoning by…
SURAT: Surat city police arrested on Monday 27 people for allegedly protesting outside Saiyedpura police chowky and pelting stones on Sunday night. They were demanding the release of six boys who had been detained for allegedly throwing stones at a Ganesha idol in a pandal in the area.Three FIRs were filed at Lal Gate police…
