MUMBAI: NCP candidate from Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar, Nawab Malik, said on Tuesday that the anti-conversion law mooted in BJP’s manifesto for Maharashtra is just being used to misguide people and his party will not join a govt with the saffron party “if it does politics on divisive and disputed issues”. Malik also did not rule…
PUNE/NAGPUR: Congress continues to speak Pakistan’s language on J&K and the only way to permanently defeat such “anti-India forces” is to replicate the Haryana poll verdict in Maharashtra, PM Narendra Modi said Tuesday while campaigning for BJP in Pune.“Congress and its allies are trying to restore the provision (Article 370) that promoted terrorism and separatism…
PANAJI: Hundreds of Goans have been duped of crores of rupees in a cash-for-jobs scam. Goa police have so far registered 20 cases across state — including 12 in North Goa district and eight in South Goa district — and arrested 19 people for promising to secure govt jobs in exchange for cash. The scam…
NEW DELHI: Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Tuesday called out Canada govt for not taking action against Khalistani activist Gurpatwant Singh Panun for threatening to attack Ayodhya’s Ram Mandir, and said that the Indian govt should consider taking appropriate diplomatic steps against Ottawa for its continuing indulgence of militant separatists who have been issuing menacing…
NEW DELHI: In a first, Enforcement Directorate went after a group of land grabbers in Chennai that had encroached upon a plot worth Rs 13 crore in Saidapet area, and restituted it to its owner, a significant development in the face of several such cases of usurpation taking several decades to be disposed of and…
SRINAGAR: Kashmir valley recorded its eighth gunfight between terrorists and security forces this Nov, with suspected Pakistani gunmen firing at a search party of soldiers and J&K policemen approaching a hideout in Bandipora district’s Nagmarg area Tuesday.The security forces responded with retaliatory fire. No casualties or injuries have been reported on either side so far,…
LONDON: The “sword with the shiny blade”, believed to have been part of Tipu Sultan’s personal armoury and the provenance of which can be traced back to the Battle of Seringapatam, sold at Bonhams auction house for £317,900 (Rs 3.4 crore) on Tuesday.The sword has an unbroken provenance taking it back to the 1799 battle…
NEW DELHI: The stage is set for first phase of voting on 43 assembly seats in Jharkhand spread over 15 districts. The Phase 1 of elections in the state on Wednesday will decide the fate of several key leaders, including former chief minister Champai Soren who is contesting on a BJP ticket after ending his…
NEW DELHI: Raghubar Das, governor of Odisha and former chief minister of Jharkhand, is neither contesting the 2024 assembly elections nor is a part of the election campaign, but when voters of the state go out to cast their ballot tomorrow he will be keeping his fingers crossed. Raghubar’s daughter-in-law Purnima Das Sahu is the…
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Jharkhand high court on Tuesday issued a notice to former Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni in a case filed by his former business associates, Mihir Diwakar and Soumya Das.Diwakar and Das, who serve as directors of Aarka Sports and Management Ltd, had entered into an agreement…
