PILIBHIT/GURDASPUR: Photographs of Gurvinder Singh, Jasanpreet Singh, and Varinder Singh – alleged operatives of the Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF) gunned down in UP on Monday – released by Punjab police, along with the images of their bodies after the encounter in Pilibhit, have raised questions about the sequence of events. The three men were killed…
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has taken possession of a flat in Thane that was registered in the name of a close associate of Iqbal Kaskar. This action is part of their ongoing money laundering investigation against him and his brother, Dawood Ibrahim.The ED alleged that Kaskar and his associates compelled a Thane builder to…
NEW DELHI: Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF), to which the three pro-Khalistan terrorists killed in UP are being linked, is a radical Sikh outfit founded in 1993 by Ranjeet Singh @ Neeta, hailing from Simbal camp in Jammu, but currently ensconced in Pakistan. The outfit’s aim is to establish a sovereign Khalistan state. It mostly drew…
Image credit: Bhabha Atomic Research Centre MUMBAI: A little-known incident in the history of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme is a purported attempt made by the country in the early ’70s to copy the design of India’s Cirus reactor — a 40 MW thermal neutron research facility, which first achieved criticality at the Bhabha Atomic Research…
NEW DELHI: Telangana police has summoned actor Allu Arjun for questioning on Tuesday in the stampede case that claimed the life of a woman and critically injured her 13-year-old son after a massive crowd gathered at Sandhya Theatre in Hyderabad during the premiere of his movie, Pushpa 2.Following the incident, the actor was earlier taken…
NEW DELHI: Veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal, a pioneer of Indian parallel cinema, passed away at the age of 90 at Mumbai’s Wockhardt Hospital due to chronic kidney disease. Known for classics such as Ankur, Nishant, and Manthan, Benegal’s contributions to Indian cinema left an indelible mark. As news of his death came in, tributes poured…
NEW DELHI: The Congress, which had mixed electoral fortunes in 2024, braces for a challenging 2025 – with assembly elections scheduled in Delhi and Bihar. While the Congress failed to open its account in Delhi in the last two assembly elections, in Bihar, the grand-old-party won 19 out of 243 seats in 2015 with a…
Jagadguru Swami Rambhadracharya NEW DELHI: Jagadguru Swami Rambhadracharya on Monday criticised Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat‘s “don’t rake up Ram Temple-like issues elsewhere” remark.Expressing displeasure over the RSS chief’s remark, Rambhadracharya said Bhagwat did not say “anything good” and that he was influenced by “some form of appeasement politics”.He also criticised Bhagwat for…
NEW DELHI: A statue of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar located in front of Ahmedabad’s Shri KK Shastri College in the Khokhra locality was vandalized in the early hours of Monday, sparking protests by locals, according to police. “Some unidentified persons damaged the nose and spectacles on the statue of Babasaheb Ambedkar, located in front of Shri…
NEW DELHI: Parbhani in Maharashtra turned into a political battleground on Monday as Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visited the city to meet the family of Somnath Suryawanshi, who died in judicial custody on December 15. The ruling BJP called Rahul’s visit an “attempt to create hatred among people on caste lines”.Somnath, a 35-year-old law student,…
