NEW DELHI: BJP IT chief Amit Malviya on Thursday drew a connection between comments made by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during his visit to the United States and a blast that took place in Chandigarh.Malviya accused Gandhi of making “patently false and misleading” statements about the status of Sikhs in India, suggesting that his remarks…
GUWAHATI: IIT-Guwahati students temporarily halted on Wednesday their agitation over a 21-year-old 3rd-year BTech student’s death after the dean of academic affairs resigned. The institute’s director, Devendra Jalihal, assured students that their demands for the resignation of several more faculty members, including the hostel affairs board vice-chairperson and the associate deans of student and academic…
BIJNOR: A 7-year-old boy, expelled for bringing non-vegetarian biryani in his tiffin to Hilton Public School in Amroha, will be transferred to a new school along with his two siblings. The administration is facilitating the transfer after their mother decided to move her children to another institution. The education department will cover the cost of…
ANANTNAG: Attacking BJP and Modi govt, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday said those people would have been in jail if INDIA bloc formed a govt.“They (BJP) used to say ‘400 paar’; where are your 400 seats? They stopped at 240. If we had 20 more seats, then all these people would have been in…
NEW DELHI: Nagamangala, a town in Karnataka’s Mandya district, witnessed heightened tensions late Wednesday night as clashes broke out between two groups during the Ganpati Visarjan procession.The clashes were triggered when stones were hurled at the procession, news agency PTI reported.In response to the unrest, authorities have enforced Section 144 in the affected area to…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday participated in Ganpati Puja at Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud‘s residence in New Delhi. In a video, Chandrachud and his wife Kalpana Das were seen welcoming PM Modi at their house. PM Modi is then seen performing puja at their residence. The prime minister is seen wearing…
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday approved health coverage to all senior citizens aged 70 years and above irrespective of income under the flagship scheme Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY), regardless of their socio-economic status.Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw while announcing the Cabinet’s decision while addressing the media said that this will…
NEW DELHI: The impasse between the protesting junior doctors and West Bengal state government continued as the agitated doctors listed out a fresh set of demands on Wednesday evening for accepting the government’s appeal to discuss the Kolkata rape-murder. The response from the junior doctors came after West Bengal chief secretary Manoj Pant appealed to…
NEW DELHI: The impasse between the protesting junior doctors and West Bengal state government continued as they listed out a fresh set of demands on Wednesday for accepting the government’s appeal to discuss the way forward. The response from the doctors came after West Bengal chief secretary Manoj Pant appealed to the protesting doctors to…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday alleged that BJP has set a “pattern of encounters” and reffered to the deaths of crime suspects in police shootouts as “fake”.Akhilesh Yadav outlined the alleged pattern in a post on X, stating, “A pattern of encounters has been set in BJP rule: Pick someone first,…
