NEW DELHI: Amid the reports of a rift in the Haryana Congress, the Sirsa Lok Sabha MP Kumari Selja has asserted her position as a potential candidate for the chief minister’s post in Haryana, should the Congress emerge victorious in the upcoming assembly elections. In an interview with news agency ANI, Selja said that while…
MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal NEW DELHI: In the midst of the ongoing tensions in the Middle East, India on Friday said that it has not yet initiated an evacuation process to bring back Indians from Israel, Iran, and other countries in the region. During a weekly briefing, Randhir Jaiswal, the spokesperson for the Ministry of…
NEW DELHI: YSRCP chief Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday hits back at Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu after the Supreme Court formed a 5-member “independent” SIT to investigate the allegations of using animal fat in making Tirupati laddus . Reddy said that SC has pointed out Andhra CM Naidu‘s ‘true picture’ and the…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday reprimanded Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinay Kumar Saxena for ordering the elections of the MCD standing committee members. The top court questioned the LG’s decision to appoint a presiding officer for the polls and raised aspersions over his interference in the democratic process.While hearing Delhi Mayor Shelly Oberoi’s plea…
NEW DELHI: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday spoke to the father of a teacher brutally murdered along with his wife and two daughters in Uttar Pradesh. Amethi MP Kishori Lal Sharma, facilitated the call and said that he has been in contact with the grieving family since the tragic incident.“I…
NEW DELHI: Former Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal vacated the 6 Flagstaff Road residence and relocated to his new address, Bungalow No. 5 on Feroz Shah Road, near Mandi House in Delhi’s Lutyens’ Zone on Friday.The AAP supremo’s family headed towards the official residence of party member Ashok Mittal…
KANPUR: A deception game with eerie echoes of the UP-set ‘Bunty Aur Babli’ has unspooled in Kanpur, where a pair allegedly bilked Rs 35 crore from over two dozen couples with promises of an “Israel-made time machine to turn them into 25-year-olds”.Rajeev Dubey and wife Rashmi lured clients with the elixir of “oxygen therapy” once…
CHANDIGARH: Dalit politician Ashok Tanwar’s return to Congress on Thursday is being seen by political analysts as unlikely to benefit the party. However, the timing of his switch, on the same day BJP ran advertisements accusing Congress of being anti-Dalit, has become a talking point.Just hours before his re-entry into Congress, Tanwar had campaigned for…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday convicted former MLA and RJD functionary Vijay Kumar Shukla alias Munna Shukla and Mantu Tiwari for the 1998 murder of former Bihar minister Brij Bihari Prasad and awarded them life imprisonment. The court, however, granted benefit of doubt to five other accused including former MP Suraj Bhan Singh, acquitting them…
NEW DELHI: Opposing criminalisation of marital rape, the Centre on Thursday told Supreme Court that a husband and wife share a unique multifaceted relationship which is not exclusively centred on sex and stressed if Parliament has thoughtfully carved out an exception for marital rape in the penal provisions (in Sec 375 of IPC), it should…
