NEW DELHI: Professor Naima Khatoon, Professor/ Principal, Women’s College has been appointed as the new vice chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Monday. She became the first woman VC in the history of 123-year-old university. With this AMU became the third central university to get its first women VC, after Jamia Millia Islamia and…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday alleged Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of making a false claim about the rise in poverty in the country and urged the Election Commission to take “strict action” against him.Lodging a complaint with the poll panel, the saffron party has also accused Gandhi of continuing to create…
NEW DELHI: Eight polling stations across the Arunachal Pradesh have been marked for repolling after the Election Commission of India declared the initial polling void. The EC has taken decisive action in response to reports of EVM damage and violence during polling in the state.Deputy chief electoral officer Liken Koyu announced that fresh polling will…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday called the Calcutta high court order cancelling appointments of teachers made through 2016 recruitment test “illegal” and alleged that BJP leaders have been influencing judiciary and judgments. “We will stand by those who lost jobs,” Mamata said and added that the Trinamool government will challenge…
NEW DELHI: The opposition on Monday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his ‘illegal immigrants‘ remarks made at an election rally in Rajasthan’s Banswara on Sunday. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that BJP was trying to ‘divert from real issues’ while Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said PM Modi had become ‘disillusioned.’PM Modi, while…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Monday rejected a PIL seeking direction to grant ‘extraordinary interim bail‘ to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in all the criminal cases.A division bench of acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora, upon dismissal of the PIL fined the petitioner with Rs 75,000.The bench headed…
NEW DELHI: National Investigating Agency on Monday swooped down several locations in Srinagar in a case linked to terror activities.The central agency along with the police and the CRPF carried out raids at 9 locations associated with suspects linked to terrorism as part of a case registered by the agency in 2022.The search was launched…
NEW DELHI: Google has unveiled a new doodle on Monday celebrating Earth Day. The Google Doodle, which replaces the iconic ‘Google’ logo on the search engine’s homepage, featured aerial photos from Earth, highlighting some areas where progress has been made towards a more sustainable future.The Google letters highlight various locations worldwide where individuals, communities, and…
RANCHI: Two empty chairs for jailed Arvind Kejriwal and Hemant Soren headlined INDIA bloc’s bid to turn the tables on BJP at a joint rally here today as the Delhi chief minister’s wife Sunita Kejriwal led the offensive by accusing the Narendra Modi govt of conspiring to kill her diabetic husband in Tihar jail by…
BENGALURU: Building on the allegation of “injustice to south Indian states”, Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy on Sunday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s govt was “discriminating” against the south and this will result in “his downfall”.In a freewheeling chat with select journalists, Reddy said multinational companies intending to invest in southern states are being “threatened”…
