NEW DELHI: The political faceoff over BR Ambedkar, triggered by Amit Shah‘s remarks in Rajya Sabha during the Constitution debate, has spilled over from Parliament to the streets with opposition parties trying to make the most of the controversy while the BJP launching a coordinated counter offensive to control the damage. Launching an all-out offensive…
NEW DELHI: Former Union home secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla has been appointed Manipur governor on Tuesday, according to official notification of Rashtrapati Bhavan. Kerala’s current governor Arif Mohammed Khan has been named the new Bihar governor. According to the official order, former Army chief Vijay Kumar Singh appointed as Mizoram’s new governor. President Droupadi Murmu…
NEW DELHI: An Afghan staff member of the inoperative Indian consulate in Afganistan’s Jalalabad was injured in the “incident”, news agency ANI reported on Tuesday. According to the ministry of external affairs‘ sources, the local staff sustained minor injuries in the incident. “India had closed its Consulate in Jalalabad in 2020 itself. We are in…
HYDERABAD: Father of the child injured in the December 4 Sandhya theatre stampede during the premiere of Pushpa 2 in Hyderabad, on Tuesday said that his son responded after 20 days by opening his eyes and his condition was improving. He also said that both actor Allu Arjun and the Telangana government were providing support…
NEW DELHI: At least five soldiers were killed and eight injured in an accident that occurred in Jammu & Kashmir’s Poonch sector on Tuesday. The accident happened during the operational duty.The mishap happened when a vehicle carrying them skidded off the road and rolled down into a gorge in Poonch, sources told news agency PTI.The…
File photo: BJP Tamil Nadu President K Annamalai (Picture credit: X/@annamalai_k) NEW DELHI: BJP Tamil Nadu president K Annamalai launched a scathing attack on Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy for police action against Telugu actor Allu Arjun in the stampede incident and said that it is a clear case of victimisation and bullying, orchestrated by…
From (left) Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath and Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami. NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday launched a massive coordinated counterstrike against the Congress party, which has been mounting pressure on the saffron party to apologise over Union home minister Amit Shah’s remark on Ambedkar.Even…
Representative image (Picture credit: ANI) A video featuring a woman claiming that “Bengaluru is Bengaluru because of North Indians” has gone viral on social media, igniting discussions about regional contributions and perceptions in India’s Silicon Valley. The clip, shared on X (formerly Twitter) by a user identified as Woke Eminent, has garnered over 692,500 views…
Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath lashed out at the Congress over the political equations the grand-old party shared with BR Ambedkar over the period of time. Addressing the media on Tuesday in Lucknow, the UP CM highlighted the “unconstitutional and unethical insult” done to Ambedkar by the…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Tuesday clarified the misconception regarding the jump in voting percentage in Maharashtra that occurred on polling day and said that the increase in voter turnout from 5 pm to 11:45 pm is normal. Last month, the Congress raised doubts about the jump in voting percentage in Maharashtra on polling…
