LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav was stopped on Friday from visiting Jayaprakash Narayan International Centre (JPNIC) in Lucknow on security grounds on the socialist ideologue’s birth anniversary, prompting the SP president to garland a bust of the Loknayak (people’s hero) temporarily placed outside his house amid an outcry against Uttar Pradesh’s Bharatiya Janata…
RAIPUR: A three-year-old leopard, caught in a wire trap, gasped to an agonising death on Thursday as foresters stood watching for 12 hours, waiting for tranquiliser darts to be transported to the site in Chhattisgarh‘s Mohla Manpur, reports Partha Behera.By the time it was rescued and taken to Nandanvan Jungle Safari in Nava Raipur, 160km…
Maharashtra deputy CM Ajit Pawar clarified that he left a cabinet meeting early to attend a farmers’ event in Latur and denied any friction with CM Eknath Shinde. Opposition leader Vijay Wadettiwar criticized the government, alleging attempts to sideline Pawar. Important financial decisions were reportedly made in his absence. MUMBAI: Maharashtra deputy CM Ajit Pawar…
CJI DY Chandrachud (File photo) NEW DELHI:: As if responding to the oft-thrown jibe at judges – “tyranny of the unelected and unaccountable” – CJI D Y Chandrachud said judges, though neither elected nor accountable directly to the people like the political executive, are bound by the constitutional mandate to ensure equitable distribution of resources…
NEW DELHI: India is “cautiously optimistic” about the ongoing diplomatic-military talks with China to peacefully resolve the troop confrontation in eastern Ladakh, defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday, while at the same time expressing full confidence in the Army to tackle any contingency if things go south along the frontier.“Our optimism” about the talks…
NEW DELHI: To boost India’s surveillance system from space, the Cabinet Committee on Security led by PM Narendra Modi has quietly approved the phase III of the Space Based Surveillance (SBS-III) for launching a big bunch of spy satellites in low earth and geostationary orbits.“CCS on Monday gave the approval for launching 52 satellites under…
PUNE: A 21-year-old food delivery man returning home after handing over the day’s last food parcel was killed at Koregaon Park after an Audi driven by an industrial executive in an inebriated state hit his scooter at 1.30am Friday. The victim Rauf Akbar Shaikh was sole breadwinner of his family.“Before ramming into Shaikh’s scooter, the…
NEW DELHI: As the Right to Information Act, 2005, marks its 19th anniversary this Saturday, a report card reveals a troubling rise in the backlog of appeals and complaints, with over 4 lakh cases piling up across 29 information commissions (IC) nationwide as of June 30. The growing pendency, highlighted in a report by civil…
Mysore to Darbhanga Bhagmati Express on Friday collided with a stationary goods train near Kavaraipettai railway station in Tamil Nadu. Few coaches were derailed, and a fire broke out in coaches of the express train.Rescue operations by local authorities are currently underway. Further details regarding the extent of the damage and casualties are still awaited.This…
National Conference leader Omar Abdullah (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Omar Abdullah, the vice president of Jammu and Kashmir National Conference, met with lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha on Friday after receiving letters of support from various political parties and independent candidates. During the meeting, Abdullah submitted these letters to the LG and requested him to…
