DHULIAN: Cries of “We need protection” punctuated the uneasy calm that descended Sunday on mixed-population neighbourhoods lining a 7km stretch of Bengal’s Murshidabad that bore the brunt of clashes over the new Waqf law since Friday night. As fear hung in the air, hundreds – mostly women and children – crossed the Ganga by boat…
NEW DELHI: The proposal to build two tunnels — Singhpora-Vailoo and Sudhmahadev-Dranga — on the Anantnag-Chenani corridor in J&K has hit hurdles, with the expenditure secretary-headed Public Investment Board (PIB) recently turning down recommendation for their construction, citing multiple reasons, including cost. Earlier, the bid for the Singhpora-Vailoo tunnel was scrapped.Besides the huge cost of…
NEW DELHI: The main accused wanted in connection with the kidnapping and murder of a 5-year-old girl in Karnataka’s Hubballi, was killed in an encounter on Sunday while allegedly attempting to flee from the cops.Earlier in the day, a body of a girl was discovered in a tin-roofed abandoned shed, sparking outrage. Hundreds gathered outside…
NEW DELHI: Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Sunday pardoned her nephew Akash Anand and re-inducted him into the party after he publicly apologised for being “under the continued influence of his father-in-law, which was deemed to be more important than the party’s interest.”In a social media post on X, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister…
NEW DELHI: Former Bahujan Samaj Party leader Akash Anand on Sunday pleaded before party supremo and his aunt Mayawati to take him back into the party after he was sacked from the party.In a social media post on X, Akash said that Mayawati is his only political guru and claimed that he would not let…
NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu governor RN Ravi has sparked another controversy after he asked students to chant “Jai Shri Ram” during an event in Madurai. The incident has drawn criticism from Congress, that has termed him a “propaganda master of the RSS and the BJP.”He was addressing the students at Thiagarajar Engineering College on Saturday…
NEW DELHI: Maharashtra deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday refuted the speculations of a rift within the Mahayuti alliance and a subsequent meeting with union minister Amit Shah over the issue.While talking to reporters, Shinde said, “Union home minister Amit Shah is a leader of our NDA and Maha Yuti alliance. He was in…
Screengrab from video of news agency PTI NEW DELHI: A clash broke out between anti-Waqf (Amendment) Act protesters and police in Silchar town of Assam’s Cachar district on Sunday, a senior official said.Protestors threw stones while the police retaliated with batons after hundreds of people hit the streets, without permission, in the Berenga area of…
NEW DELHI: India is set to receive its first fifth-generation stealth fighter jet, the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA), by 2035, DRDO chairman Samir V Kamat said on Sunday. Acknowledging the long timelines typically associated with developing cutting-edge fighter jet programs, Kamat said, “If you look at any programme anywhere in the world, it takes…
Kanhaiya Kumar (File Photo) NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Bihar unit on Sunday filed a police complaint against Congress leader Kanhaiya Kumar, accusing him of using “abusive language” against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) during a recent TV interview. A delegation led by the BJP’s media in-charge in…
