NEW DELHI: A disturbing video of two women being harassed by a group of men late at night near Haldwani, Uttarakhand surfaced on X.As the women tried to continue on their way, a second car, a Hyundai Nios i20, sped into view from the right. Two men perched dangerously on the car doors and shouted…
NEW DELHI: Former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has moved the Delhi high court on Wednesday seeking to quash the FIR and charges framed against him in a sexual harassment case filed by six female wrestlers. Singh’s petition challenges the FIR, the chargesheet, and the trial court’s…
NEW DELHI: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K Kavitha arrived at Hyderabad Airport on Wednesday, raising ‘Jai Telangana‘ slogans. She was given a warm welcome by party workers and supporters.Daughter of BRS president and former chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, Kavitha walked out of Tihar Jail on Tuesday night after more than five months, having…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who is under all-round attack over the Kolkata rape-murder case, on Wednesday trained her guns at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and warned of adverse consequences for other states if the BJP tried to instigate trouble in Bengal. “Some people think this is Bangladesh. I love Bangladesh; they…
NEW DELHI: The Kolkata doctor rape-murder case has snowballed into a political showdown between the ruling TMC and the Bengal unit of the BJP, which has accused CM Mamata Banerjee of “endorsing” revenge politics.Highlighting it before Union home minister Amit Shah, West Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar, who also happens to be a Union minister,…
NEW DELHI: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Wednesday suspended the membership of Dr Sandip Ghosh, who is the ex-principal of Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital, where a trainee doctor was raped before being brutally killed.The disciplinary committee duly constituted by the National President Dr RV Asokan, IMA HQs has unanimously decided to suspend the membership…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday accused the BJP of conspiring to obstruct the ongoing investigation into the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.During her address at the TMCP foundation day, Mamata expressed her opposition to BJP’s 12-hour shutdown call in Bengal,…
NEW DELHI: A video of an elderly man, dressed in saffron, facing water cannons, while holding the national flag during the ‘Nabanna Abhijan’ (March to Bengal Secretariat) protest, went viral on Tuesday. The protest was organized against the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government in connection with the rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata’s…
KOLKATA: The streets of Kolkata and Howrah turned into a battleground for protesters and police Tuesday, leaving scores wounded in a shower of water cannons, tear gas, stones and bricks as the administration tried to cordon off the planned student-led march to Nabanna, the Bengal secretariat, over the RG Kar hospital rape-murder case.Police said at…
NEW DELHI: The entry of Champai Soren into BJP is likely to help it counter Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren‘s attempt to polarise tribals against the party in the coming assembly polls.Although BJP boasts of two former tribal CMs Babulal Marandi and Arjun Munda in its ranks, they never got much traction in the ST-dominated Kolhan…
