NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Monday dismissed a PIL by former diplomats and bureaucrats and social activists, including Jean Dreze and Harsh Mander and musician T M Krishna who sought a direction to the Centre to cancel all licences for export of arms and ammunition to Israel on the ground that the country has been indicted…
SRINAGAR:Mirwaiz Umar Farooq-led Hurriyat Conference reaffirmed support Monday for dialogue with the Centre, a day after defence minister Rajnath Singh told rallies in Jammu that the Centre had sent a parliamentary delegation in 2016 to initiate talks for peace in J&K but the Hurriyat leaders had “shut their doors on them”.At rallies in Ramban and…
SRINAGAR: Signs of strain have emerged in the Congress-National Conference (NC) alliance in J&K after a Congress candidate slammed the ally and a video emerged of an NC MP purportedly disagreeing with the tie-up.Vikar Rasool Wani, Congress’s nominee in Jammu’s Banihal seat, lashed out at NC Sunday, terming it “a party of killers”. “This is…
NEW DELHI: The mother of the RG Kar Medical College rape and murder victim on late Monday claimed that the family was offered money by a district official, contradicting West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee‘s denial.“The CM (Mamata Banerjee) is lying. We were indeed offered money by DC (North). We told her we will take…
NEW DELHI: Soon after Supreme Court directed the protesting junior doctors to resume work or face action, the Bengal IMA unit said it was “disheartened” by the the proceedings of the court and the CBI. In a statement, the medical body conveyed that the protests “won’t die down” and promised to leave no stone unturned…
NEW DELHI: Soon after Supreme Court directed the protesting junior doctors to resume work or face action, the Bengal IMA unit said it was “disheartened” by the the proceedings of the court and the CBI. In a statement, the medical body conveyed that the protests “won’t die down” and promised to leave no stone unturned…
NEW DELHI: Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday outrightly dismissed the reports suggesting that Chinese forces have entered into the Indian territory, saying mere paintings of marks in undemarcated locations doesn’t mean the areas have been encroached upon.Rijiju, who represents Arunachal West Lok Sabha constituency, also said that overlapping of patrolling by Indian and Chinese…
NEW DELHI: A war of words brewed between Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Tamil Nadu chief minister Stalin on Monday after the Dravidian leader accused the the central government of withholding funds from states that had performed well but were against the National Education Policy (NEP).The charge was followed by a barb from the…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Monday mounted a fresh attack on PM Modi for not visiting strife-addled Manipur, with party chief Mallikarjun Kharge and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra expressing concern over the internal security risks.Priyanka Gandhi Vadra alleged that the PM “has not made any effort to stop” the violence and the subsequent fallout. In a piercing…
NEW DELHI: A viral video doing the rounds on social media showed a heated altercation between loco pilots at Rajasthan‘s Gangapur City Junction. The video, which TOI couldn’t independently verify, shows an ugly confrontation between loco pilots from the Kota and Agra Railway Divisions, all vying for the chance to drive the newly-launched Vande Bharat…
