DUBAI/JERUSALEM: Explosions echoed over an Iranian city on Friday in what sources described as an Israeli attack, but Tehran played down the incident and indicated it had no plans for retaliation – a response that appeared gauged towards averting region-wide war.The limited scale of the attack and Iran‘s muted response appeared to signal a successful…
NEW DELHI: The first phase of polling for the 2024 general election – covering the largest chunk of 102 Lok Sabha seats across 21 states and UTs – witnessed an encouraging turnout of 63.5% (as of 11pm), while remaining largely smooth and peaceful even in vulnerable areas like the Naxal-hit Bastar region and West Bengal….
In a rare case, Gujarat high court has reunited a live-in couple separated by the woman’s estranged husband. The woman’s partner took legal recourse for her custody after she was forcibly taken away by her husband and kept in her maternal home.The couple, living together in Amreli district’s Khambha town since Jan this year, had…
NEW DELHI: In a significant change in eligibility criteria for admissions to Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), the autonomous centrally funded institutions have moved out of the ambit of Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced. From this year, the admissions to BS-MS (Dual Degree) and four-year BS degree programmes in the seven IISERs…
KOZHIKODE: In a sharp retort to Congress‘s Rahul Gandhi, Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan said he and other Left leaders cannot be intimidated by jail threat or probe by Central agencies.Rahul said in Kannur on Thursday that CMs of two states are now in jail, but Vijayan has not even been questioned by ED despite corruption…
CUTTACK: A special court in Cuttack started trial on Friday against BJD MP Bhartruhari Mahtab for assaulting a cop on duty in Odisha 13 years back.Court of judicial magistrate first class Deepankar Bal, dealing with cases against MPs and MLAs, had framed charges against Mahtab on March 21 under sections 341 (wrongful restraint), 323 (voluntarily…
RAIPUR: Over 64% of Bastar‘s 14 lakh electorate defied the Maoist threat and turned up to vote by 5pm in the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls on Friday. This figure is expected to rise.This is being held in the backdrop of the most aggressive anti-Maoist operations in nearly two decades of insurgency. As…
GUWAHATI: Not one of over four lakh voters in eastern Nagaland turned up in elections to the state’s lone Lok Sabha seat on Friday following a boycott and shutdown call by Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation (ENPO) over the Centre’s “failure” to fulfil its long-standing demand to create a separate zone with greater autonomy.The 20 MLAs…
Kartik Bakale, son of a BJP functionary, was among the four killed in Gadag, Karnataka. The assailants targeted the family, leading to a tragic incident with the police ruling out robbery as the motive. Source link
NEW DELHI: Following Israel‘s retaliatory strike on Iran, Indian govt is closely monitoring the situation but whether it asks Indian nationals in the two countries to leave will depend on whether there is any further escalation.While Israel did launch an air strike on Iran, its actions so far have been limited in scope, intended perhaps…
