NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced on Sunday that starting July, all ministers and government officials will be responsible for paying their own electricity bills to end the ‘VIP culture‘.This change begins with the Chief Minister and the Chief Secretary, who will start paying their power bills from July 1, while a…
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NEW DELHI: The police found the body of Trevor Bokstaahlar, an American citizen, who went missing during his visit to the Spiti Valley. The police found the body on Sunday in a ravine between Kee and Tashigang in Himachal Pradesh‘s Lahaul and Spiti district on Sunday. On Friday, with the help of the Dogra Regiment…
NEW DELHI: Union minister of Parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge at his residence.Rijiju met Kharge at the Congress chief’s 10, Rajaji Marg residence in what was said to be a courtesy call. Rijiju said that Kharge shared valuable experiences of his life, adding that the two will work…
NEW DELHI: A day after Tamil Nadu chief minister claimed that INDIA bloc‘s ‘moral victory’ in the Lok Sabha polls prompted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to bow down to the Constitution, BJP’s state president and firebrand leader K Annamalai on Sunday hit back , accusing the DMK of hypocrisy and “utter disregard for the Constitution,”…
VARANASI: At least 12 pilgrims from Jharkhand and West Bengal were injured when their bus rammed into a stationary truck on the national highway in Jhansi village of UP’s Chandauli district on Sunday morning. The pilgrims were heading to the Kedarnath shrine in Uttarakhand.Chandauli SP Anil Kumar said the injured pilgrims were admitted to the…
NEW DELHI: A passenger of an Air India plane describing his experience “horror story,” said that his Newark-bound flight “was no less than a nightmare.”Sharing his experience on X (formerly known as Twitter), a user, who claimed to be an investor as per his bio, said that he booked a business class in Air India…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah, chairing a high-level review meeting on Jammu and Kashmir security scenario on Sunday, said that the Centre is committed to cracking down on terrorists through innovative means.Shah also directed agencies to replicate successes achieved in Kashmir through Area Domination Plan and Zero Terror Plan in Jammu division.Shah asserted that…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday backed Tesla CEO Elon Musk‘s concerns regarding Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) and called it a “black box“.“EVMs in India are a black box, and nobody is allowed to scrutinize them. Serious concerns are being raised about transparency in our electoral process.Democracy ends up becoming a sham and…
KOLKATA: A Trinamool Congress (TMC) functionary was shot at in a tea stall in Basirhat and bombs were hurled at another’s house in Amdanga as violence raged across North 24 Parganas in West Bengal from Friday night to Saturday. A BJP functionary was injured after he was beaten up in Haroa. Basirhat TMC functionary Altaf…
