NEW DELHI: Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his comment that there were no “Dalits and adivasis” in the list of contestants in the Miss India beauty pageant and said the statement was something that could only come from a “bal buddhi (juvenile)”.“Now, he wants reservations in…
MUMBAI: A 25-year-old resident of Khar was arrested in less than 24 hours after he allegedly threatened to rape a 49-year-old businesswoman after she called him out for riding his bike into a no-entry lane at Pali Hill Naka in Bandra last Friday. Police tracked Sagar Gujar down based on CCTV footage from the location…
JAMMU: Ghulam Nabi Azad’s DPAP on Sunday issued its first list of candidates for 13 seats in the first phase of Jammu & Kashmir assembly polls on Sept 18.Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP also named seven of its candidates for the state’s first assembly election since the abrogation of Article 370.DPAP’s has picked former J&K…
NEW DELHI: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Sunday took a shot at People’s Democratic Party leader Mehbooba Mufti on her proposal to support the National Conference and Congress alliance in the upcoming J&K assembly elections, if they agree upon her party’s agenda. Abdullah asked Mehbooba to not field candidates against NC-Congress as their agenda…
NEW DELHI: A 28-year-old student of Tata Institute of Social Sciences was found dead in his rented apartment on Sunday. The Human Resource student, Anurag Jaiswal, was reportedly heavily intoxicated and had attended a party with 125 people the night before.Officials said that when he did not wake up in the morning, he was taken…
NEW DELHI: The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) on Sunday imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh on a caterer of Dehradun Shatabdi train after a plastic wire was found in parantha served to a passenger. The Railway body further informed that an officer had been deputed to “thoroughly audit the Base kitchen”…
NEW DELHI: A photo of Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa, currently held in Bengaluru’s Parappana Agrahara jail, has sparked controversy after it went viral. The image shows Darshan holding a cigarette and a cup of coffee while sitting with three others in what seems to be an open area within the jail. The individuals with him…
NEW DELHI: Heavy rains over the weekend caused widespread flooding across Gujarat, blocking state highways and village roads, the continuous downpour over the past 48 hours inundated low-lying areas, disrupted daily life and hindered traffic flow, officials said.Several hundred people were evacuated and moved to safer locations from the districts of Valsad and Navsari as…
NEW DELHI: In a scathing retort to Congress party’s “U-turn” jibe on the government’s announcement of the Unified Pension Scheme, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday questioned the grand old party about its plans to meet its election promise of reinstating the Old Pension Scheme in Himachal Pradesh.Senior party leader and MP Ravi Shankar Prasad…
NEW DELHI: The Kerala government on Sunday formed a special team to investigate the atrocities faced by women in Malayalam film industry after the Hema committee report brought to light the details of sexual exploitations. This came after Congress leader Chennithala accused the Pinarayi Vijayan government of not taking any action into the matter. “After…
