NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy has approached the Delhi high court seeking directions for the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to decide on his representation to cancel the Indian citizenship of Congress leader and Lok Sabha leader of opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi. According to Bar and Bench, Swamy, represented by advocate…
NEW DELHI: Former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday expressed his willingness to support any candidate put forward by the Congress and NCP(SP) as the Maha Vikas Aghadi‘s (MVA) chief ministerial face for the upcoming state elections.While addressing Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) cadres, Uddhav emphasised that Maharashtra assembly elections will be a fight to…
NEW DELHI: Several senior police officers in Jammu and Kashmir, including IGPs and DIGs, have been transferred, with many districts to get new police chiefs.This reshuffling of top police officials comes in the wake of the Election Commission‘s announcement that it will declare the poll schedule for Jammu and Kashmir’s legislative assembly on Friday, marking…
NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu, PM Modi and other BJP leaders on Friday paid tribute to ex-PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his death anniversary at the ‘Sadaiv Atal’ memorial in the national capital.Union home minister Amit Shah, Union defence minister Rajnath Singh and BJP chief JP Nadda among other party stalwarts were also present at…
NEW DELHI: Enforcement Directorate on Thursday said it has attached properties worth over Rs 678 crore of the Avantha Group, owned and controlled by industrialist Gautam Thapar, in an alleged bank fraud and money-laundering case. The properties include land parcels located in Haryana, Maharashtra and Uttarakhand.The agency said its investigation revealed that Avantha Group companies…
MUMBAI: In one of the oldest pending rape cases before the sessions court, 40 years after a now 70-year-old man was accused of raping a 15-year-old girl who later became his wife and mother of his four children, a trial judge acquitted him for lack of evidence.While the accused remained untraceable for almost four decades,…
NEW DELHI: Taking a cue from the ongoing Middle East conflict and the Ukraine-Russia war where both sides have been using self-destructive drones to attack rival’s assets, India’s elite research institute National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) has developed a desi ‘Kamikaze’ drone that is driven by an indigenously-built engine that gives them a range of 1,000…
NEW DELHI: PM Modi on Thursday doubled down on India’s efforts to ensure the safety and security of the Hindu community in Bangladesh, emphasising in his Independence Day address 140 crore countrymen were worried about them and other minorities in the neighbouring country, and expressed hope the situation there would normalise soon.Amid unending concerns over…
BHUBANESWAR: Woman employees in govt and private sectors in Odisha will get a day’s paid period leave, deputy CM Pravati Parida announced Thursday in Cuttack after an I-Day event. “The leave will be optional and can be taken on either the first or second day of the menstrual cycle, depending on the woman’s preference,” said…
Reclaim the night‘, the protest call, became a mass movement across India on Independence Day eve on Wednesday as it reverberated in numerous cities as doctors, other professionals and general public gathered to raise their voice against the rape and murder of the on-duty 31-year-old PGT doctor inside RG Kar Medical College and Hospital (RGKMCH)…
