CHENNAI: Discontent raged within Tamil Nadu BJP unit, with some second-rung leaders evincing strong views about state party president K Annamalai‘s ‘miscalculated’ strategies leading to AIADMK breaking ties with BJP, that cost them dearly.On Thursday, BJP state president K Annamalai, while noting that AIADMK had been rejected by people, ruled out the possibility of an…
MOHALI: Thirty-one years after a fake encounter, the family of vegetable vendor Gulshan Kumar, who had been abducted and killed, got a compensation of Rs 2 lakh as a special CBI court of judge RK Gupta in Mohali on Friday sentenced former Punjab police DIG Dilbagh Singh to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment (RI) and former…
NASHIK: A section of the NCP MLAs who attended the Thursday’s meeting with the party chief, Ajit Pawar, expressed ‘anguish’ over the Union govt’s failure to roll back the ban on onion exports before the Lok Sabha election, which sent a wrong message among the farming community in the state.Ajit Pawar had called the meeting…
NEW DELHI: The Neet-UG 2024 results controversy has intensified with the high courts at Calcutta and Delhi, and the Supreme Court taking up petitions challenging the conduct and outcome of the test.Calcutta HC has demanded a response from the National Testing Agency (NTA) regarding alleged irregularities in the examination process on Friday. A division bench…
JIND: Farmers held a meeting in Uchana Kalan of Jind district where they announced to honor Kulwinder Kaur who allegedly slapped actress turned politician Kangana Ranaut at Chandigarh airport. Farmers gathered at tehsil premises of Uchana Kalan town and passed a resolution to welcome the suspended CISF cop at this site. They said that ‘sherdil…
NEW DELHI: Delhi’s Tis Hazari Court has dismissed the regular bail plea of CM Arvind Kejriwal’s aide Bibhav Kumar on Friday in the alleged assault of AAP Rajya Sabha member Swati Maliwal.This is the second time the court has rejected his bail request, with the first dismissal on May 27.Maliwal had accused Bibhav Kumar of…
NEW DELHI: Shortly after meeting President Droupadi Murmu and staking claim to form the next NDA government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday told reporters that the swearing-in ceremony will be held on the evening of June 9.Speaking in front of Rashtrapati Bhavan, PM Modi said: “The President called me just now and asked me…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram Shashi Tharoor on Friday clarified his position on his political future and said that he might not contest another Lok Sabha election if the next polls are held five years from now. Tharoor said people should know when to step aside for the ‘younger blood’. “Not electoral politics but…
NEW DELHI: Four Indian medical students drowned in a river near St. Petersburg, Russia. The victims, comprising two boys and two girls aged 18 to 20, were students at Novgorod State University in Veliky Novgorod. One of the deceased Jishan, who was swept away by the powerful wave, was on a video call with his…
NEW DELHI: Having spent the last decade like an all-powerful CEO, running the govt at the Centre on his own, all eyes are now on Narendra Modi, who is set to start his third consecutive term as PM, leading the NDA coalition with BJP missing out on getting a majority, unlike 2014 and 2019. The…
