RAIPUR: Ten Maoists, including three women, were shot dead by security forces in Bastar’s Sukma on Friday. This is the biggest encounter since the Oct 3 gunfight in which 38 Maoists were killed. The Maoist death toll this year has now risen to 207, this week alone accounting for 15 deaths.An AK-47, an Insas rifle…
NEW DELHI: Canada has officially denied it has any evidence to link PM Modi, foreign minister S Jaishankar and NSA Ajit Doval with the murder of pro-Khalistan terrorist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, distancing itself from a Canadian media report earlier this week that quoted an anonymous security official to suggest that all three shared culpability for…
NEW DELHI: In a stern message to Delhi Police commissioner Sanjay Arora and his deputies, Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday made it clear to the police brass that law and order was top priority and any laxity was “unacceptable”. Expressing concern over the rising crime in the national capital, Shah is learnt to…
MUMBAI: Maha Vikas Aghadi comprising NCP (SP), Shiv Sena (UBT) and Congress has summoned all its winning candidates to Mumbai immediately after the poll results are declared on Saturday.It is not fear of poaching that has driven this decision but the idea that all legislators of the alliance should be under one roof, MVA sources…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday said protection of citizen’s safety and their right to live in safe social environments is as important as incorporating mechanisms in provisions of new penal laws to protect the rights of a person accused in organised crimes, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra.The observationcame from a bench of Justices Surya Kant…
NEW DELHI: The issue of the legality of the insertion of ‘socialism’ in the Preamble of the Constitution through the 42nd amendment during the infamous Emergency, which has simmered for decades, will be decided on Monday. Supreme Court on Friday reserved its order on petitions challenging the changes in the Preamble to put ‘socialism’ and…
Army steps on the gas for high-tech infusion for futuristic warfare, plans to induct ‘domain specialists’ NEW DELHI: With rapid technological advances changing the very nature of warfare, the Army is now cranking up work on 16 specific technology clusters as well as planning to induct `domain specialists’ to ensure it becomes a future-ready force…
NEW DELHI: The BJP-led NDA and the opposition’s INDIA bloc will keep their fingers crossed a day ahead of the counting of votes in Maharashtra and Jharkhand as they anxiously await the people’s verdict in the two states. With the exit polls throwing up a diverse range of predictions, both the camps are gearing up…
NEW DELHI: Over 100 monkeys died after allegedly inhaling a pesticide sprayed in a Food Corporation of India (FCI) warehouse and were then secretly buried in a pit by warehouse workers to conceal the incident.The tragic discovery came to light when the buried carcasses were exhumed on Friday by a team of veterinarians for postmortem.Circle…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Industrialist Gautam Adani (File Images) NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday once again called out Gautam Adani after the indictment by the United States for alleged bribery and fraud, and said that he and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are protecting each other, adding that the industrialist gives funds…
