AGRA: When cousins Shivam and Abhishek cracked the JEE Advanced examination by achieving 2989 and 2372 ranks respectively, it was their fathers — who are siblings and work as painters and earn about Rs 600 a day each — whose joy knew no bounds as they had every single day dreamt of sending their sons…
GUWAHATI: A CID officer and a driver suffered gunshot wounds in an ambush by unidentified gunmen on Manipur CM N Biren Singh’s advance security convoy in Kangpokpi district Monday, hours before he was to travel to adjoining Jiribam that has been grappling with a resurgence of ethnic violence and arson.Biren Singh, who was flying back…
PUNE: NCP (SCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Monday yet again targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for calling him ‘bhatakti aatma’ during the Lok Sabha election campaigning.Pawar, referring to Modi’s speech in Pune on April 29, told his supporters in Ahmednagar on Monday, “Even during political criticism, we maintain dignity. But Modi called me ‘bhatakti aatma’…
PUDUCHERRY: A team of surgeons from Mahatma Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Dental Sciences (MGPGIDS), a Puducherry govt institution, saved the life of a 14-year-old boy by performing a surgical procedure to remove a toothbrush stuck near his throat after his brother playfully patted him on the back of his head as he was brushing his…
MUMBAI: NCP president Ajit Pawar on Monday unexpectedly showered praise on his mentor and political rival Sharad Pawar at the foundation day celebrations of the party, saying the senior Pawar had played a crucial role in building it up.“Sharad Pawar set up NCP 25 years ago over the nationality of Congress’s Sonia Gandhi. I am…
NEW DELHI: An aggressive China, along with its expanding military collusiveness with Pakistan in the maritime domain after the land borders, will remain the foremost security threat confronting the Indian defence establishment for the foreseeable future.The new govt should bite the bullet on several fronts to ensure India’s nuclear deterrence capabilities as well as conventional…
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Monday said that the much-talked about mystery animal seen during the oath-taking ceremony was just a common house cat, dispelling the notion that it was a wild animal.This was in response to an incident a day earlier, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sworn in for his third consecutive term…
NEW DELHI: The portfolio allocation for the Modi Government 3.0 was released on Monday, featuring some surprise inclusions, though the top four ministries— home, defence, finance, and external affairs—were retained by Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, and Dr S Jaishankar, respectively. The list of Union Cabinet ministers also included six former chief ministers, such…
NEW DELHI: While Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s top four ministers- Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman and S Jaishankar – retained their respective home, defence, finance and external affairs portfolios on Monday, five Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) allies from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) have also been allocated important ministries.Among the newly appointed Union Cabinet…
NEW DELHI: The BJP once again achieved a decisive victory in the national capital winning all the seven seats in Lok Sabha elections. This is the third consecutive clean sweep for the saffron party in Delhi. What makes this victory special is the fact that the BJP triumphed despite a strong alliance between the Aam…
