NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Monday said the middle class that “beat thalis and lit mobile phone torches with gusto during Covid-19 on one order of PM Modi” are set to desert BJP and support opposition because the recent Budget has “stabbed them in the back and chest” by removing indexation and…
NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi was misleading the country on the sensitive issue of national security and the govt’s Agnipath initiative, and offered to make a statement in Parliament to clarify the issues.Singh was speaking after Rahul’s speech in Lok Sabha on the Union Budget, as…
LUCKNOW: Amid several reports of kanwariyas engaging in vandalism and hooliganism, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday called for “self-discipline” among the pilgrims, saying “we must be devoted not only internally but also externally”.“Shivo bhutva Shivam yajet (to worship Shiva, first become Shiva)”, Yogi said in his missive on the second Monday of…
NEW DELHI: NEET counselling for allocating undergraduate medical seats will be conducted in four rounds, starting August 14.As per the notification issued by the medical counselling committee constituted under health ministry, the first round of allotment of seats will be carried out between August 14 and August 31; second round from September 4 to 22;…
MUMBAI: A 50-year-old American woman has been found chained to a tree in a forest in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg district, and a set of documents, including an Aadhaar card with a Tamil Nadu address and a photocopy of her US passport, were recovered from her, a police official said on Monday.A shepherd in Sonurli village, about…
NEW DELHI: Bollywood veteran and Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan on Monday got annoyed at the Rajya Sabha deputy chairman as he called her to speak by saying ‘Jaya Amitabh Bachchan. In no time after deputy chairman’s address, she raised a strong objection to “being identified with her husband’s name”.“Sir, sirf Jaya Bachchan bolte to…
NEW DELHI: A Chandigarh court on Monday framed charges against former Haryana sports minister and BJP leader Sandeep Singh in connection with a sexual harassment case filed by a junior female coach. The additional chief judicial magistrate Rahul Garg’s court rejected the discharge application submitted by Singh, complainant’s lawyer Deepanshu Bansal told news agency PTI.A…
NEW DELHI: The Kanwar Yatra, a pilgrimage attracting lakhs of participants from states in north India, began on July 22 and will continue until August 2. This year, Rupendra Tomar, a pathologist from Baghpat in western Uttar Pradesh, drew significant attention by carrying a statue of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his shoulders during his…
The ministry of home affairs formed a committee to inquire into the deaths of three aspirants, who drowned in the flooded basement of a coaching centre in old Rajinder Nagar in New Delhi. The committee will have the additional secretary, MoUHA, principal secretary (Home), Delhi govt, special CP, Delhi police, fire advisor and JS, MHA…
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Monday said that “elections are not won on the strength of the government” but by the party.Reflecting on the 2024 Lok Sabha election results in which the alliance of Samajwadi Party and Congress outdid the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, Maurya said, “This time (in Lok…
