NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday accused the BJP of conspiring to obstruct the ongoing investigation into the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.During her address at the TMCP foundation day, Mamata expressed her opposition to BJP’s 12-hour shutdown call in Bengal,…
NEW DELHI: A video of an elderly man, dressed in saffron, facing water cannons, while holding the national flag during the ‘Nabanna Abhijan’ (March to Bengal Secretariat) protest, went viral on Tuesday. The protest was organized against the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government in connection with the rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata’s…
KOLKATA: The streets of Kolkata and Howrah turned into a battleground for protesters and police Tuesday, leaving scores wounded in a shower of water cannons, tear gas, stones and bricks as the administration tried to cordon off the planned student-led march to Nabanna, the Bengal secretariat, over the RG Kar hospital rape-murder case.Police said at…
NEW DELHI: The entry of Champai Soren into BJP is likely to help it counter Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren‘s attempt to polarise tribals against the party in the coming assembly polls.Although BJP boasts of two former tribal CMs Babulal Marandi and Arjun Munda in its ranks, they never got much traction in the ST-dominated Kolhan…
DEHRADUN: A significant portion of the Joshimath-Auli road collapsed on Tuesday, which hampered access to the skiing resort of Auli from Joshimath. The collapse was attributed by local residents and activists to alleged construction work by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), which has a battalion headquarters at Joshimath. “An around 20m-long stretch of the single-lane…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday announced 29 more candidates for the J&K assembly polls, replacing party veteran, former deputy CM Nirmal Singh with Satish Sharma.The exclusion of Singh along with others had sparked protests on Monday, resulting in the list being withdrawn. The party also held its ground over fielding Devender Singh Rana, brother of…
LUCKNOW: Englishman James Shirley’s 17th-century poem “Death the Leveller” is a lyrical reminder that “sceptre and crown/must tumble down/and in the dust be equal made”.Four centuries later, as a bulldozer stopped in front of Kotwali police station in UP’s Siddharthanagar and a band of bewildered cops tried to make sense of what was happening, the…
KOCHI: Actor Mohanlal resigned on Tuesday as president of Association of Malayalam Movie Artists (AMMA), following the fallout from the Justice K Hema committee report and a wave of #MeToo allegations against several prominent figures in Kerala film industry.The committee, which probed allegations of exploitation and rights violations of women in the industry, had documented…
AGRA/LUCKNOW: Two Dalit girls, aged 15 and 18 years, were found hanging from a mango tree in an orchard at Bhagautipur village in Kaimganj area of Farrukhabad on Tuesday morning.The families of the girls, who were friends, suspect foul play. But SP (Farrukhabad) Alok Priyadarshi said, “No injury or assault was found in the postmortem…
NEW DELHI: India has now inked another contract for the import of an additional 73,000 SiG Sauer assault rifles from the US, which will add to the 72,400 such guns bought earlier for frontline Army troops, amid the continuing military confrontation with China in eastern Ladakh.“The SiG-716 `Patrol’ rifles, which are 7.62x51mm caliber guns with…
