BATHINDA: A nine-hour shutdown called by farmers’ unions fighting for a legally guaranteed minimum support price mechanism for crops struck Punjab off the transport map Monday, with buses going off the road and 150-odd trains passing through or originating in the state either cancelled or curtailed.Thousands of stranded passengers spent the day at railway stations…
SANDESHKHALI: Lies get exposed one day, Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee asserted Monday at her first Sandeshkhali rally since the unrest there over gang rape allegations before this LS poll, advising the area’s women not to trust “miscreants”.“Stay well, stay together,” she said, specifically reminding women they need not go “anywhere with anyone (to get…
JAIPUR: Shatrughan Shah, 40, vegetable vendor, is running from pillar to post for help after losing his auto rickshaw in the devastating inferno triggered by a collision between an LPG tanker and a truck near Bhankrota on Jaipur-Ajmer highway on Dec 20. Despite suffering burn injuries to his face, Shah’s name does not appear on…
NEW DELHI: Mental health assistance helpline Tele-Manas, which was launched in 2022 to provide 24×7 services, has received 16.6 lakh calls since its inception. All states and UTs have started the service and have 53 functional cells, according to the health ministry.An official said a dedicated Tele-Manas cell has also been established at the Armed…
NEW DELHI: Centre on Monday assigned senior IPS officer Vitul Kumar to officiate charge for the post of Director General of Central Reserve Police Force upon the retirement of the incumbent force chief Anish Dayal Singh on Dec 31. Kumar, a 1993-batch IPS officer from UP cadre, is currently serving as Special DG of CRPF.Kumar…
Allu Arjun (left); Pawan Kalyan (right) VIJAYAWADA: Andhra Pradesh deputy CM Pawan Kalyan Monday praised Telangana CM Revanth Reddy even as he blamed Allu Arjun‘s team for “lack of empathy” in handling the ‘Pushpa 2‘ stampede in a theatre in Hyderabad and its aftermath. He was surprised at the film industry not showing any regret…
NEW DELHI: Centre on Monday declared the devastating Wayanad landslides a disaster of “severe nature,” after five months, acknowledging its significant impact. Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra welcomed the Centre’s decision and said it is “step in the right direction.”“I am glad Amit Shah has finally taken the decision to declare the Wayanad tragedy as…
India on Monday got a step closer to becoming part of an elite group of nations with space-docking technology — ability to mate two spacecraft in space — with Isro’s putting two small satellites weighing 220 kg each, into orbit.The satellites, part of the Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) mission, lifted off around little past 10pm…
It has been another bratty year of Gen Z rawdogging language. I started my girlboss era in January, focusing on looksmaxxing, but despite my very demure, very mindful first half of the year, things became sus, and all the political tea and extreme weather events turned into brain rot.The polarisation in society worsened, with everyone…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Monday took a jibe at the BJP-led central government over the depreciation of the rupee against the US dollar, criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his silence on the issue, stating that the prime minister had previously launched attacks against the former PM Manmohan Singh when the rupee had fallen during…
