BJP on Sunday said that implementing UPS was a commendable and meaningful decision as PM Narendra Modi has always taken keen interest in issues concerning central govt employees and had set up the Somanathan Committee to address them.“Modi govt makes decisions with thoughtful consideration, avoiding temporary measures. Every decision made by it is in public…
BIJNOR: In a bizarre incident, a Dhanbad-bound Express train split into two, leaving its last eight coaches stranded as it approached Chakrajmal village just before Seohara railway station in Bijnor around 4am on Sunday. The stranded coaches eventually came to a stop near Raipur village, leaving passengers confused and anxious as to what had happened.The…
NEW DELHI: Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his comment that there were no “Dalits and adivasis” in the list of contestants in the Miss India beauty pageant and said the statement was something that could only come from a “bal buddhi (juvenile)”.“Now, he wants reservations in…
MUMBAI: A 25-year-old resident of Khar was arrested in less than 24 hours after he allegedly threatened to rape a 49-year-old businesswoman after she called him out for riding his bike into a no-entry lane at Pali Hill Naka in Bandra last Friday. Police tracked Sagar Gujar down based on CCTV footage from the location…
JAMMU: Ghulam Nabi Azad’s DPAP on Sunday issued its first list of candidates for 13 seats in the first phase of Jammu & Kashmir assembly polls on Sept 18.Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP also named seven of its candidates for the state’s first assembly election since the abrogation of Article 370.DPAP’s has picked former J&K…
NEW DELHI: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Sunday took a shot at People’s Democratic Party leader Mehbooba Mufti on her proposal to support the National Conference and Congress alliance in the upcoming J&K assembly elections, if they agree upon her party’s agenda. Abdullah asked Mehbooba to not field candidates against NC-Congress as their agenda…
NEW DELHI: A 28-year-old student of Tata Institute of Social Sciences was found dead in his rented apartment on Sunday. The Human Resource student, Anurag Jaiswal, was reportedly heavily intoxicated and had attended a party with 125 people the night before.Officials said that when he did not wake up in the morning, he was taken…
NEW DELHI: The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) on Sunday imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh on a caterer of Dehradun Shatabdi train after a plastic wire was found in parantha served to a passenger. The Railway body further informed that an officer had been deputed to “thoroughly audit the Base kitchen”…
NEW DELHI: A photo of Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa, currently held in Bengaluru’s Parappana Agrahara jail, has sparked controversy after it went viral. The image shows Darshan holding a cigarette and a cup of coffee while sitting with three others in what seems to be an open area within the jail. The individuals with him…
NEW DELHI: Heavy rains over the weekend caused widespread flooding across Gujarat, blocking state highways and village roads, the continuous downpour over the past 48 hours inundated low-lying areas, disrupted daily life and hindered traffic flow, officials said.Several hundred people were evacuated and moved to safer locations from the districts of Valsad and Navsari as…
