RANCHI: In a stern warning to the Centre, Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday said his govt would take tough measures, including taking a legal recourse and forcing public sector coal units operating out of the state to shut down their mining operations, if no sincere efforts were made to clear its coal-related dues.Speaking…
GADCHIROLI: The once-unassailable Maoist headquarters in Abujmarh – spread across the rugged, forested hills straddling Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh – has fallen to security forces after 50 years of bloodshed. A fact conceded by Giridhar, a former commander of PLGA, during a conversation with TOI Tuesday.“Abujmarh is no longer an impregnable Red citadel. The liberated zones…
PUNE/CHENNAI: A 10-year-old boy who died at Chennai’s Institute of Child Health on Jan 31 was Tuesday confirmed to be Tamil Nadu’s first Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) victim, taking the number of casualties caused by the rare but treatable infection since last month to seven.Pune, which accounts for five of the GBS mortalities across the country,…
NEW DELHI: The stage is set for a gripping three-way contest that will not only shape the future of the capital but also determine the political fate of its three main contenders.More than 1.5 crore eligible voters will have the chance to choose their representatives for the 70-member Delhi assembly from a pool of 699…
New Delhi: Asserting that he was only into his “third term” and that BJP would remain in office for many more years to steer India to the “developed” club, PM Modi Tuesday tore into leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of using “the language of urban Naxals openly”.“Those who declare a war on the…
NEW DELHI: In the first such operation of its kind involving India since the return of Donald Trump to the White House, the US despatched a C17 military aircraft carrying an unspecified number of illegal Indian migrants to India. Anonymous US officials were quoted as saying dozens had been deported, and unconfirmed reports put the…
NEW DELHI: The stage is set for the high-stakes Delhi assembly elections as voters will elect a new assembly on Thursday. A total of 699 candidates are in the fray for 70 seats. Voting will start at 7am across 13,766 polling stations for 1.56 crore voters who are eligible to cast their ballots. Arvind Kejriwal‘s…
NEW DELHI: An FIR has been registered against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal over his statements regarding the Yamuna river water and allegations against the Haryana government.Following a court order, hours before the Delhi elections, FIR was lodged at Shahabad Police Station in Kurukshetra, Haryana, against Kejriwal…
NEW DELHI: Liquor shops, hotels, restaurants, and other establishments serving alcohol in Delhi will remain closed from February 3 to 5 and again on February 8, in line with the upcoming Delhi assembly elections, as per the official notification issued by the Delhi Excise Commissioner.The closure, classified as “dry days” under the Delhi Excise Rules-2010,…
NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader and spokesperson Pawan Khera has said that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal and his party would not have been part of the INDIA bloc if it was up to the Congress.“If Congress was given a choice, I don’t think he (Arvind Kejriwal) would have been a part (of…
