NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Saturday launched the first meeting of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) to oppose the Centre’s proposed delimitation exercise, calling it a “historic day” in India’s federal structure.Stalin in a post on X said, “Today (Saturday) will be etched in history as the day when states…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party on Friday appointed former Delhi minister Saurabh Bharadwaj as the new Delhi AAP chief.According to a press release by the party, Manish Sisodia was assigned responsibility for Punjab, Mehraj Malik for Jammu and Kashmir, Gopal Rai for Gujarat, Pankaj Gupta for Goa, and Sandeep Pathak for Chhattisgarh.(This is a developing…
AMRITSAR: Unidentified assailants reportedly lobbed a grenade at the Hindu temple, Thakurdwara, located in the Khandwala area, here on Saturday at around 12.35 am. Fortunately, no loss of life or injuries have been reported. However, some portions of the temple building was damaged in the incident.According to CCTV footage, two attackers, carrying a flag, arrived…
NEW DELHI: BJP and Congress launched a scathing attack on Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal questioning scale of the security convoy that accompanied him on Tuesday as he arrived in Hoshiarpur in Punjab for a 10-day Vipassana meditation retreat and his continued access to privileges even as he holds no office.AAP returned fire…
NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has dismissed speculation that former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal may enter the Rajya Sabha following his party’s electoral setback in the national capital, party sources told TOI. Earlier, media reports suggested that Kejriwal might move to the Upper House after AAP nominated its Rajya Sabha MP Sanjeev…
NEW DELHI: Just four states – Gujarat, Odisha, West Bengal and Maharashtra – have managed to lower the debt to gross state domestic product (GSDP) ratio, while Punjab and Tamil Nadu have been the worst performing, seeing the steepest increase, according to a new paper by economists.The paper by NCAER economist Barry Eichengreen and the…
NEW DELHI: Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh once offered a poignant response when asked whether he would return to his ancestral village in Pakistan. Born in Gah, a village now in Pakistan’s Punjab Chakwal district, Singh’s connection to the place was irrevocably marked by tragedy. When one of his daughters asked if he wished…
BATHINDA: Sukhjit Singh, a 26-year-old AAP-backed sarpanch of Chhana Gulab Singh village in Punjab‘s Barnala district, was killed Sunday night after being attacked with sharp weapons by a group of villagers allegedly supporting drug peddlers.According to Sukhjit’s father Amarjit Singh, his son had been vocal against drug abuse in the village and had refused to…
BATHINDA: A 20-year-old student from Punjab was shot dead in an apartment in Edmonton, Canada, on Friday.Canadian police have named the two accused as Evan Rain and Judith Saulteaux, both 30 years old. Both have been arrested and charged with first-degree murder.The victim, identified as Harshandeep Singh, was also working as a security guard was…
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