NEW DELHI: An encounter broke out between security forces and terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir‘s Kupwara district on Wednesday. The operation is under way in Kupwara’s Tangdhar area.The exchange of firing began at the Khushal Post in the Tangdhar area, near the Line of Control, security forces told news agency PTI.There are no reports of…
NEW DELHI: Leader of the Opposition and congress MP Rahul Gandhi criticised the BJP government over the tragic incident involving the deaths of two Dalit girls in Farrukhabad district. The bodies of the girls, one of whom was a minor, were found hanging from a tree in the Kaimganj Kotwali police jurisdiction early Tuesday.Gandhi, in…
NEW DELHI: The Uttar Pradesh government has proposed a new digital media policy to disseminate information about various developmental and public welfare schemes to the state’s residents through social media platforms, as per an official document.Under this policy, the state government will pay influencers and account holders on platforms such as Facebook, X, Instagram, and…
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister who often has held the opposition of admiring Jinnah, picked a similar theme on Wednesday to flay the pack coming all-out at the government on a slew of issues. Chief minister Yogi Adityanath accused the opposition of fearmongering and disturbing the “social fabric” by dividing the nation along the…
NEW DELHI: A disturbing video of two women being harassed by a group of men late at night near Haldwani, Uttarakhand surfaced on X.As the women tried to continue on their way, a second car, a Hyundai Nios i20, sped into view from the right. Two men perched dangerously on the car doors and shouted…
NEW DELHI: Former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has moved the Delhi high court on Wednesday seeking to quash the FIR and charges framed against him in a sexual harassment case filed by six female wrestlers. Singh’s petition challenges the FIR, the chargesheet, and the trial court’s…
NEW DELHI: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K Kavitha arrived at Hyderabad Airport on Wednesday, raising ‘Jai Telangana‘ slogans. She was given a warm welcome by party workers and supporters.Daughter of BRS president and former chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, Kavitha walked out of Tihar Jail on Tuesday night after more than five months, having…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who is under all-round attack over the Kolkata rape-murder case, on Wednesday trained her guns at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and warned of adverse consequences for other states if the BJP tried to instigate trouble in Bengal. “Some people think this is Bangladesh. I love Bangladesh; they…
NEW DELHI: The Kolkata doctor rape-murder case has snowballed into a political showdown between the ruling TMC and the Bengal unit of the BJP, which has accused CM Mamata Banerjee of “endorsing” revenge politics.Highlighting it before Union home minister Amit Shah, West Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar, who also happens to be a Union minister,…
NEW DELHI: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Wednesday suspended the membership of Dr Sandip Ghosh, who is the ex-principal of Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital, where a trainee doctor was raped before being brutally killed.The disciplinary committee duly constituted by the National President Dr RV Asokan, IMA HQs has unanimously decided to suspend the membership…
