BHILWARA: A Rajasthan Pocso court on Monday handed down death sentences to two brothers for gang raping a 17-year-old and burning her alive in Shahpura district on Aug 2 last year. The case had triggered public outrage and led BJP, then in opposition, to target the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress govt over crimes against women ahead…
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat anti-terrorist squad (ATS) arrested four Sri Lankan men with suspected ties to Islamic State (IS) at Ahmedabad airport late Sunday and alleged that they’re on a mission devised by their Pakistani handlers to carry out a suicide attack in the state. ATS claimed Monday to have confiscated three pistols and 20 bullets from…
MUMBAI: Anil Kakodkar, former chairman of atomic energy commission (AEC), has revealed that Siegfried Hecker, former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US, had deposed in the US Senate in 2008 that the sanctions which followed Pokhran 2 tests had no impact on India’s nuclear weapons programme.Kakodkar stated this while speaking at a…
NEW DELHI: The Bhartiya Janata Party’s Sambit Patra landed in huge controversy on Monday after calling Lord Jagannath a ‘bhakt’ (devotee) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Patra, who is the BJP candidate from Puri Lok Sabha seat, was speaking to reporters as PM Modi led a roadshow in the morning. Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Monday thanked Israeli’s president and foreign minister, who lost their lives in a helicopter crash, for the Chabahar Port agreement and said India will get the benefit from this.Speaking on the Chabahar Port, Jaishankar remarked, “We’ve been trying for almost 20 years now to have an agreement…
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday wrote to the Union home ministry, stating that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) allegedly received foreign funds exceeding Rs 7 crore in violation of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA). The ED discovered this information during a money laundering investigation related to drugs, involving former Punjab AAP…
NEW DELHI: Amid heightened tensions between an aggressive China and the Philippines, three Indian warships have now reached Manila as part of the ongoing long-range deployment to the South China Sea to strengthen maritime partnerships with friendly countries.Guided-missile destroyer INS Delhi, fleet tanker INS Shakti and anti-submarine warfare corvette INS Kiltan, under the command of…
NEW DELHI: Google on Monday marked the ongoing exercise of India’s democratic franchise with a special Doodle celebrating the fifth phase of voting in the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. The Doodle featured an uplifted index finger marked with ink, a widely recognized symbol of voting in India, replacing Google’s iconic logo on its homepage.Upon clicking…
PM Narendra Modi expressed solidarity with the people of Iran as he said he was deeply concerned by reports regarding Iran Prez Ebrahim Raisi’s helicopter flight that crashed in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. “We stand in solidarity with the Iranian people in this hour of distress, and pray for the well-being of the president and…
LUCKNOW: A viral video showing the 17-year-old son of a gram pradhan purportedly voting eight times at a polling station in UP’s Farrukhabad constituency on May 13 led the authorities to file an FIR and detain him Sunday, initiate disciplinary proceedings against officials managing the booth, and recommend a repoll.SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, Wayanad MP…
