Photo credit: X/@ChinarcorpsIA NEW DELHI: In a joint operation with Jammu Kashmir Police, security forces successfully neutralized a heavily armed terrorist in Jammu & Kashmir’s Baramulla district, according to an army statement released on Sunday. The statement from Chinar Corps said, “The joint team neutralized one heavily armed terrorist and recovered 01xAK Rifle, 02xAK Magazines,…
NEW DELHI: Only six large states – Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan – accounted for nearly 55 per cent of the 1,73,000 road deaths in the country last year. Among them, Rajasthan saw the sharpest increase in fatalities, with an almost 6 per cent rise compared to 2022, according to…
NEW DELHI: In December 2020, Enforcement Directorate arrested KA Rauf Sherif, the general secretary of the Campus Front of India (CFI). That was the beginning of a multi-agency probe against the Popular Front of India (PFI) to unearth its entire network and source of finance.A dossier prepared by ED after a four-year probe revealed PFI…
VARANASI: The country continues to bless BJP-led NDA as it works without discrimination and with good intentions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Sunday in Varanasi on his second visit after retaining his LS constituency this summer and less than a fortnight after the governing combine’s Haryana hattrick.Modi targeted Congress and Samajwadi Party (SP) for their…
PANAJI: Indian Medical Association (IMA) president Dr RV Asokan called for the legalisation of prenatal gender determination tests, arguing Sunday that the current ban has not substantially impacted India’s skewed sex ratio in three decades.Prenatal gender determination and sex-selective abortions have been illegal in India under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act since…
Security personnel keep a vigil after a flight made an emergency landing at the airport following an alleged bomb threat, in Jodhpur.(PTI) NEW DELHI/MUMBAI/KOLKATA: Indian carriers continued to grapple with a wave of bomb hoax threats for the sixth straight day, disrupting flight schedules and causing inconvenience during the busy festive travel season. More than…
Mallikarjun Kharge (left), and Rahul Gandhi NEW DELHI: Scarred by the Haryana debacle, Congress now is focusing on the “rebel factor” in the ensuing Maharashtra polls.Sources said the appointment of senior leaders as observers in each region of the state is for the primary objective of controlling disappointed ticket aspirants from turning rebels, and persuade…
NEW DELHI: After its shock defeat in Haryana, Congress is faced with the unenviable project of picking its new team of functioanries in the state which will signal that the party has learnt its lessons.Sources said Congress has realised the need to throw the net wide to increase its social appeal, amid repeated evidence that…
Hemant Soren (left), and Tejashwi Yadav. (PTI) RANCHI: While the NDA camp has avoided a major inter-party bickering over its seat-sharing formula for the Jharkhand assembly polls, infighting in the INDIA bloc seems to be out in the open. RJD, a junior constituent of the bloc, threatened to go solo but stopped short of breaking…
Sharad Pawar (left), and Uddhav Thackeray MUMBAI: Crucial meetings of the AICC’s central election and screening committees scheduled for Sunday were abruptly cancelled owing to a lack of consensus on MVA’s seat-sharing formula. These panels will meet in a day or two.According to a Congress office-bearer, the party is prepared for any eventuality if there…
