CHANDIGARH: Punjab govt claimed before Punjab & Haryana HC that Amritpal Singh, radical Sikh preacher and Khadoor Sahib MP, was “involved in anti-state activities and had ties with foreign agencies“.In response to Amritpal’s petition challenging his detention order under National Security Act passed by Amritsar district magistrate in March this year, the state said “Amritpal…
NEW DELHI: Vying for a third straight term amid major losses in recent Lok Sabha polls and the possibility of anti-incumbency, BJP’s central election committee (CEC) meeting took place on Thursday to finalise candidates for the single-phase Haryana assembly polls.Sources said there is a possibility of sitting MLAs, including ministers, being culled based on several…
SRINAGAR: Three Pakistani terrorists were shot dead early Thursday at separate locations near the LoC in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district as security forces intensified counteroffensives to ensure peace during J&K’s first assembly elections in a decade from Sept 18 to Oct 1.Another shootout between security forces and terrorists was reported late Wednesday night in a…
New Delhi: With the opposition’s relentless insistence on caste census, Parliament’s Committee on Welfare of OBCs on Thursday included the politically sensitive subject on its agenda, following a strong demand from the members that it be discussed by the panel. BJP ally JDU supported the demand raised by DMK and Congress among others.The committee, headed…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a woman is the sole owner of her ‘streedhan‘, the gold ornaments and other articles given by her parents at the time of marriage, and said that after divorce, her father has no authority to demand return of those gifts from her erstwhile in-laws.One P Veerabhadra Rao’s…
RAIPUR: At least three Maoists, all women, were gunned down by security forces on the border of Kanker and Narayanpur districts in Bastar region, police said on Thursday.This is the first major gunfight in over a month and takes the number of Maoists killed this year to 192 – an average of almost one a…
BAHRAICH: After several days of combing, UP forest department teams, which had fanned out in the sugarcane fields of Sisaiya village in Bahraich, managed to capture a male wolf on Thursday. Forest officials believe that it is one of the three ‘killer‘ wolves on the prowl in the district.The teams are now on the lookout…
KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee spoke out Thursday against “attempts to twist” her statements, saying she supported the protests by junior doctors demanding justice for the RG Kar rape-murder victim.“Let me most emphatically clarify that I have not uttered a single word against the (medical, etc) students or their movements. I totally support their movement.Their…
KOLKATA: Purported recordings of three phone conversations over eight minutes between a representative of Kolkata’s RG Kar hospital and the family of the junior doctor found raped and murdered on Aug 9 went viral on Thursday, matching what CBI says the official told interrogators that she was “under instructions” to lie on each occasion.Sucharita Sarkar,…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked all ministers and top officials to “inform” people about decisions taken by govt to counter “false narratives”, while urging them to expedite decision making at all levels.“The PM said while the govt has taken several important decisions to transform the lives of common man and people from…
