NEW DELHI: As the voting is going on in Delhi for the assembly election, one of the polling booths caught the eye of voters with its unique theme “Chandrayan se chunav tak Bharat ki udaan.” The polling booth is equipped with telescopes and bioscopes with volunteers dressed up as astronauts assisting the voters. At the…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal accompanied by his wife Sunita and his elderly parents cast his vote for the Delhi Assembly elections on Wednesday morning. The 56-year-old former Delhi chief minister, along with his parents Gobind Ram Kejriwal and Gita Devi, both of whom were in wheelchairs, exercised their democratic rights…
NEW DELHI: The US military plane carrying 205 illegal Indian immigrants landed in Amritsar on Wednesday afternoon marking the Donald Trump-administration’s first crackdown on the country’s migrants after assuming office. A total of 30 deportees aboard the flight were residents of Punjab.The flight landed at Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport amidst tight security…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday visited the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, where he took a holy dip at the Triveni Sangam, the sacred confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna, and Saraswati. Accompanied by Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, the Prime Minister arrived at the Sangam aboard a boat from Arail Ghat….
NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday lost his cool after Bharatiya Janata Party MP Neeraj Shekhar interrupted him during his speech.Kharge was criticising several central government policies, including the rate of inflation, when Neeraj Shekhar, son of former PM and an ex Congress leader Chandra Shekhar, budged in drawing…
India‘s small towns are splurging on luxury shopping – as the growth of e-commerce has democratised access to luxury. Far beyond the metros of Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru, home to some of India’s richest, luxury shopping has reached places like Gujarat’s Botad and West Bengal’s Asansol where people are shopping for luxury footwear, watches, apparel…
NEW DELHI: A bomb hoax sparked panic across four schools in Noida on Monday. Among the affected schools were Step by Step School, Mayoor School and Heritage Xperiential Learning School. This comes less than a month after several schools in Delhi received bomb threats. Poll What Should Be the Top Priority in Handling Bomb Threats?…
NEW DELHI: Delhi on Wednesday votes for the assembly elections, with more than 1.5 crore eligible voters hitting the poll button to decide the national capital’s politcal fate.A total of 699 candidates: 603 men, 95 women, and one third-gender candidate, are contesting for 70 assembly seats, after 2 weeks of intense campaigning.The polling booths opened…
MOHALI: Two former Punjab Police cops, both aged over 70, were on Tuesday awarded life sentence for the killing of an Army jawan and a farmer, falsely implicated in a murder case and accused of being hardcore terrorists, in a fake encounter in 1992.A CBI court convicted the two cops – former SHO of Majitha…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court dismissed Tuesday a defamation complaint filed by BJP functionary Rajeev Chandrashekhar against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, saying if every speech was viewed as defamation then “freedom of speech and expression would be reduced to nought”.The court of additional chief judicial magistrate Paras Dalal noted there is “no prima facie evidence”…
