NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court sent notice to Delhi government and police, seeking their response over why the order banning the use of firecrackers during Diwali wasn’t implemented. It has also directed the state and the police as to suggest measures for better implementation of the ban order in the coming years.“There cannot be a…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Monday postponed the upcoming bypolls in Uttar Pradesh, Kerala and Punjab from November 13 to November 20. The announcement by the poll body came after national and state parties raised concerns over lower voter turnout due to various festivities coinciding with the election dates.The Congress had said that a…
NEW DELHI: The Jammu and Kashmir assembly on Monday elected veteran National Conference leader and seven-time MLA Abdul Rahim Rather as its speaker as the first listed transaction of the business in the first session after a gap of six years.Chief minister Omar Abdullah and protem speaker Mubarak Gul congratulated Rather as he took Chair…
NEW DELHI: Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on Sunday took a sharp jibe at the Bharatiya Janata Party after it accused the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha of patronising infiltrators in the state. Soren questioned the central government’s decision to provide political asylum to ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.Addressing a poll rally at Ranka in Garhwa…
Jharkhand CM and JMM chief Hemant Soren RANCHI: Jharkhand‘s governing JMM and CM Hemant Soren hit back Sunday at Union home minister Amit Shah’s promises of a crackdown on Bangladeshi infiltrators, a CBI probe into a paper leak and Uniform Civil Code (UCC) if BJP and its allies won the Nov 13 and 20 assembly…
WAYANAD: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Sunday emphasised that the primary struggle in the country today is to protect and preserve the Constitution. “The protection that we get, the greatness of our country, all emerged from the Constitution,” the Lok Sabha MP said while addressing a corner meeting in Mananthavady as part of campaign for…
GUWAHATI: Six militants of Kangleipak Communist Party- People’s War Group (KCP-PWG) and PREPAK (PRO) have been arrested over the past two days from Manipur’s Thoubal and Bishnupur districts for alleged involvement in abductions and extortion. Sources said some of the militants had been trained in Myanmar.Two hand grenades and demand letters were seized from the…
Representative Image (Lexica generated image) HYDERABAD: Even as security forces push hard into the forests of Chhattisgarh to smoke out the last Naxal strongholds, a number of surrendered cadres in neighbouring Telangana say they have received a raw deal from government. They say they are happy to have ended a life of playing hide and…
Mumbai: Sameer Khan, son-in-law of NCP functionary Nawab Malik, succumbed to injuries on Sunday after a tragic accident in Sept had left him with a severe brain clot. Khan had been under observation at the intensive care unit at Criticare Hospital, Kurla, before he passed away, despite weeks of medical intervention, reports Ahmed Ali. Nawab…
MEERUT: Stones were allegedly thrown on the Varanasi-bound Vande Bharat Express damaging the multi-layered window glass near Khurja junction in Bulandshahr district on Sunday morning. Nagina MP Chandra Shekhar Azad, who was on the train, first reported the incident, reports Rahul Singh.Railway Protection Force (RPF) officials said that an FIR had been registered under sections…
