NEW DELHI: Ward councillor Pankaj Rai was shot dead by unidentified miscreants in Hajipur on Tuesday night. With the attack being caught on CCTV, Tejashwi Yadav took to social media platform X and blamed the Nitish Kumar-led government for sleeping peacefully in an attack he claimed was led by NDA goons. The Ward No 5…
NEW DELHI: A video of the Independence Day celebration in Chhattisgarh‘s Mungeli district went viral on social media platforms showing a pigeon released by the Superintendent of Police that failed to fly, drawing comparisons to a scene from the popular web series ‘Panchayat’ season 3.Superintendent of Police Girija Shankar Jaiswal in response to the incident…
NEW DELHI: “Bharat Bandh“, the nationwide strike, has been called on August 21, in response to a recent Supreme Court ruling on SC/ST reservations by Dalit and Adivasi organisations demanding stronger representation and protection for marginalised communities. What is the Supreme Court ruling? The Supreme Court recently in a 6:1 ruling said that the states…
THANE: A rail roko caused a 10-hour train disruption in Badlapur on Tuesday when crowds of protesters answered a bandh call over the sexual abuse of two four-year-old girls at a school there and subsequent police delays in taking up the case.The police said around 2,000 men and women descended on the tracks and they…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned the Delhi high court‘s order asking the Congress party to approach the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) for interim stay on income tax demand notice for recovery of outstanding dues of more than Rs 100 crore.Agreeing to hear the appeal of the political party against HC’s order,…
NEW DELHI: The national task force (NTF) set up by Supreme Court comprises surgeon vice-admiral and DG medical services (Navy) Arti Sarin, chairman of Hyderabad-based Asian Institute of Gastroenterology D Nageshwar Reddy, AIIMS Delhi director M Srinivas, NIMHANS Bengaluru director Pratima Murthy, Jodhpur AIIMS executive director Goverdhan Dutt Puri, Ganga Ram Hospital’s Saumitra Rawat, Rohtak-based…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday tore into Kolkata police for letting a 7,000-strong mob vandalise R G Kar hospital early on August 15, storm the resident doctors‘ hostel and threaten female doctors with dire consequences if they opened their mouths about the rape-murder of their colleague.A bench of CJI D Y Chandrachud and Justices J…
KANPUR/LUCKNOW: The derailment of 22 coaches of Sabarmati Express near Kanpur on Saturday was a result of sabotage, says the FIR registered against several unknown persons.The FIR, lodged on Sunday, is based on a complaint by the railways’ senior section engineer Mahendra Pratap Singh, claiming that the “piece of rail” found on the tracks was…
Restoration work is underway after the derailment of Ahmedabad bound Sabarmati Express KANPUR/LUCKNOW: The derailment of 22 coaches of Sabarmati Express near Kanpur on Saturday was a result of sabotage, says the FIR registered against several unknown persons.The FIR, lodged on Sunday, is based on a complaint by the railways’ senior section engineer Mahendra Pratap…
NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi will start a two-day tour of J&K on Wednesday to take stock of the party’s preparations for the upcoming assembly elections. They will visit Jammu and Srinagar, and hold meetings with party workers and office bearers.The new J&K Congress president, Tariq Hameed Karra, has said that…
