NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday called upon Indian coast guard to be alert to emerging unconventional threats from cyber attacks, data breach and radar disruption, in addition to conventional warfare.“India is surrounded by sea on three sides and its coastline is vast. The nation’s strategic security faces two types of threats: the…
DOMALAPENTA (NAGARKURNOOL): Four days into the rescue operations at the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) tunnel collapse site, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams on Tuesday finally reached the last point of the collapsed roof, where the eight workers were trapped since Feb 22 morning. Until Monday, the rescue teams could not reach the…
Amid the row triggered by Tharoor’s comments expressing unhappiness with the party, Congress leadership has called a meeting of party members from Kerala on Friday. Senior Congress members from the state which includes organisational managers and MPs are likely to attend the meeting, in which party president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi will take part….
NEW DELHI: When the Left bloc stunned Congress by bucking Kerala’s “revolving door” politics to return to office in the state in 2021, Congress overhauled the state unit with factionally unaffiliated faces, and announced it was designed to end the notoriously entrenched factionalism in the party. Four years later, senior MP Shashi Tharoor staking claim…
CHENNAI: In a bid to rally support of all Tamil Nadu political parties, chief minister M K Stalin announced on Tuesday a meeting of registered parties on March 5 to discuss the Union govt’s proposed delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies in 2026, arguing it would “throttle the voice of Tamil Nadu”, a state that succeeded…
MUMBAI: Describing MMRDA‘s actions as arbitrary and unfair, Bombay HC Tuesday set aside a Jan 3 notice by which it terminated the services of French engineering firm Systra’s Indian subsidiary as a consultant for three Metro lines in the Mumbai region. Even in a contract with a private party, said the judges, the state and…
This is a representational image KOLKATA: Over a decade after the lynching of a young trader in Sodepur’s Gandhinagar, a Barrackpore court on Tuesday sentenced five individuals, including Panihati councillor Tarak Guha, to life imprisonment.Guha, a councillor from ward 11 of Panihati Municipality, was arrested immediately after appearing in court on Friday for the first…
This is a representational image (Pic credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Government has set a target to construct 10,000 km of national highways (NHs) in 2025-26, as per the budget document, which is the lowest in the past seven years since 2018-19. However, continuing with the sharper focus on building wider and greenfield highways and expressways,…
Annamalai said Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin was instilling imaginery fears among people. NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai fired back at chief minister MK Stalin after the chief minister announced that the state was ready for “another language war”. Stalin called an all-party meeting on March 5 to discuss the Lok…
Shashi Tharoor posts selfie with Piyush Goyal and Jonathan Reynolds NEW DELHI: Is Shashi Tharoor on his way out of the Congress or is he just flexing his muscles for a greater role in Kerala Congress keeping in mind the assembly elections in the state next year? Well, any answers to this at present would…
