NEW DELHI: A blast on Saturday at the intersection of Blochmann Street and S N Banerjee Road in Central Kolkata injured a 58-year-old rag picker identified as Bapi Das.Das, a resident of the footpath on S N Banerjee Road, sustained an injury to his right wrist.According to sources, the Taltala Police Station (PS) was alerted…
NEW DELHI: Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday called out the absconding Islamic preacher Zakir Naik for “spewing venoms” in context with the Waqf bill and also urged the citizens to “unitedly fight against” the likes of the Islamic evangelist.Naik, booked under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) linked to terror charges, posted a misleading…
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday objected to Varanasi’s Gyanvapi being referred to as a Muslim place of worship and said that it is rather Vishwanath (Lord Shiva). “Unfortunately, people call Gyanvapi a mosque, but it is actually Vishwanath himself,” CM Yogi said while addressing an event in Gorakhpur.Yogi Adityanath contended…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Saturday levelled fresh allegations of conflict of interest against Sebi chief Madhabi Puri-Buch, accusing her of making “high value investments” outside India including Chinese firms, amid rising geopolitical tensions with the neighbouring country.The grand old party also accused Buch of trading in listed securities while being in possession of unpublished price…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the Congress, National Conference and PDP and accused Jammu and Kashmir‘s ‘three political families’ of destroying the state through their dynastic politics.While addressing a rally in J&K’s Doda, PM Modi said, “This time’s assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir is between three…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the arrival of a new member at his residence on Lok Kalyan Marg on Saturday. The new addition to the Prime Minister’s household is a healthy calf, born to a mother cow already living at the premises.The calf bears a unique mark on its forehead, resembling a symbol…
NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a supplementary chargesheet against Vinod Mishra, a key Naxal leader, for his involvement in a conspiracy to revive the banned CPI (Maoist) in the Magadh region of Bihar. The chargesheet, submitted to a special NIA court on Friday, identifies Mishra as a close associate of Pramod…
NEW DELHI: At a time when incidents of sexual assault against women is causing revulsion across the country, SC on Friday agreed to examine the feasibility of laying down mandatory guidelines for a swift probe by the police into complaints about missing girls/women.PIL petitioners – minor daughter and sister of a murdered nurse in Rudrapur…
VARANASI: The court of civil judge senior division Hitesh Agrawal dismissed the Hindu side’s plea seeking repairs and restoration of the”Vyas Ka Tahkhana“and gathering of namazis over it. The court declined to direct the custodian of the basement – the district magistrate of Varanasi – for any such action.The order came on a petition by…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court, while dealing with an alleged effort to cover up an attempt to insulate the then PM from the multi-crore rupee coal scam in 2013, came out with the “caged parrot” comment for CBI for not taking an independent stand and speaking its “master’s voice”. The perception stuck and came back to…
