NEW DELHI: With less than a month to go for voting in the capital, Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely quit his post Sunday, citing the party’s alliance with AAP in the city, the high command’s choices of Lok Sabha candidates, and not getting freedom to elect party functionaries according to his preferences.Claiming he wasn’t…
MUMBAI: Actor Sahil Khan was arrested on Sunday in connection with his alleged role in the Rs 15,000 crore Mahadev betting app case. Khan (50) was produced in court and was sent to police custody till May 1. An SIT of crime branch nabbed him from a hotel in Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh. He was brought to…
NEW DELHI: With Centre making it mandatory for states to promote scrapping of old and unfit vehicles, 21 states and UTs, including Bihar, MP, UP, Haryana, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Punjab and Kerala, have announced concessions in motor vehicle or road tax of up to 25% on buying a new private vehicle in lieu of scrapping…
NEW DELHI: Four years into the face-to-face military confrontation in eastern Ladakh, which also triggered tensions all along the Line of Actual Control, there has been no let-up in the way China continues to build border infrastructure and dual-use ‘Xiaokang’ villages, strengthen military positions and deploy additional aircraft at its air-bases facing India.Latest satellite imagery,…
NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal‘s wife Sunita Kejriwal was denied permission to meet her husband on April 29 by the Tihar Jail authorities, Aam Admi Party (AAP) said on Sunday.According to sources from Tihar jail, permission had been granted to Delhi minister Atishi, who had applied last week to meet Kejriwal on April…
NEW DELHI: Congress party‘s Delhi unit chief, Arvinder Singh Lovely, has tendered his resignation ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. He cited the alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as one of the reasons. He said the Delhi Congress unit was against the alliance but the party high command went ahead with it.He clarified…
NEW DELHI: Mumbai’s cyber cell special investigation team detained actor Sahil Khan from Chhattisgarh regarding the Mahadev betting app case, an official said on Sunday. On Saturday, Khan was detained from Chhattisgarh’s Jagdalpur following the Bombay High Court‘s denial of his pre-arrest bail plea.The SIT is currently investigating alleged illicit dealings between specific financial and…
NEW DELHI: Two days after 14 constituencies of Karnataka went to polls in the second phase, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday is set to hit the campaign in full swing for the BJP in Northern Karnataka. The Prime Minister will hold four back to back rallies to support the efforts of the BJP state…
Did you know that your hospital bill is likely to be heftier – and not less, as many believe – if you are paying for it yourself rather than through an insurance firm? A patient in Gurgaon discovered this to his horror recently and TOI’s enquiries reveal that this is standard practice.When this patient, while…
BENGALURU/KALABURAGI: Nearly six months after Karnataka submitted a memorandum, the state on Saturday finally received Rs 3,454 crore from Centre under Natural Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) to counter the prevailing drought situation. This, however, is way short of Karnataka’s initial demand of Rs 18,174 crore, which included Rs 5,662 crore for compensation to farmers.Congress has…
