BAREILLY: A district court in Bareilly Monday sentenced three accused to life imprisonment for a brutal gang rape in May 2021, where a knife was inserted into the survivor’s rectum. The survivor spent months in a hospital and underwent reconstructive surgery. Sonu Bhatia, Rajiv Kumar, and Monu Singh were arrested and jailed but later granted…
CHENNAI: Six retired judges from Madras high court and one from Patna HC have written to President Droupadi Murmu and chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar, expressing deep concern over the conduct of the 2024 general elections and urging protection of “electoral democracy in India”.The letter, writer by former judges D Hariparanthaman, GM Akbar Ali, Aruna…
NEW DELHI: As the country braces for another mandate with Lok Sabha poll results coming on Tuesday, bringing an end to a marathon polling exercise stretching over 80 days, BJP brass and NDA functionaries, buoyed by the predictions of exit polls, held several rounds of meetings amid indications that the leadership would like to finish…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Monday said that Congress and its allies have not only lost people’s confidence but also missed the opportunity to behave as a responsible opposition as they have consistently tried to demean democratic institutions by casting aspersions on them.At a press conference, party’s spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said that the opposition parties had…
SHIMLA: The Himachal assembly speaker accepted on Monday the resignation of three independent MLAs, a day before the declaration of results for the state’s four LS seats and 6 assembly bypolls.These three, along with six Cong MLAs, had voted for the BJP candidate in RS polls. Speaker K S Pathania had disqualified the six rebels…
SHIMLA: The Himachal assembly speaker accepted on Monday the resignation of three independent MLAs, a day before the declaration of results for the state’s four LS seats and 6 assembly bypolls.These three, along with six Cong MLAs, had voted for the BJP candidate in RS polls. Speaker K S Pathania had disqualified the six rebels…
NEW DELHI: A day after Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal asserted that all exit polls that predicted a third term for BJP-led NDA were “fake”, AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh on Monday demanded a ban on exit polls, claiming they have been proven wrong several times.Singh highlighted reports from different states to claim that…
BHUBANESWAR/ JAIPUR: The countrywide toll of suspected heatstroke deaths touched 219 with Odisha reporting six fresh casualties and Rajasthan two in the last 24 hours even as the southwest monsoon advanced to some more parts of south India on Monday.The toll so far in Odisha has reached 147, though only 30 are confirmed sunstroke casualties,…
BHUBANESWAR: An exit poll by Times Now-ETG predicted on Monday a near-repeat of the 2019 landslide for Naveen Patnaik’s BJD in the Odisha assembly polls, differing from other projections that show the party either neck and neck with challenger BJP or not ahead by much.BJD is likely to win 100 to 115 seats in the…
Bengaluru: Intense thundershowers lit up the skies over Bengaluru on Sunday evening and the downpour broke a 133-year-old record in the state capital. The city received 111.6mm of rain in 24 hours till 8am on Monday, making it the city’s wettest day in June till date.The record for the highest single-day rainfall for the month…
