Nearly seven years after the killing of three BJP workers in Sandeshkhali during post-poll violence in West Bengal in 2019, CBI has arrested 10 people, including local panchayat chief Kader Mollah, a close aide of expelled TMC strongman Sheikh Shahjahan who is now in jail.The three wokers were hacked to death in June at Bhangipara…
PM Modi had recently asked for his security convoy to be trimmed and suggested ministers reduce their fleet of vehicles NEW DELHI: “Shouldn’t we opt for car pooling when we are starting from the same place and heading to a common destination?” — PM Narendra Modi is learnt to have posed the question to his…
Indian national living illegally in US held by federal authorities for ‘assaulting man with baseball bat’ An Indian national, who entered the US illegally, has been arrested by authorities for allegedly assaulting another person with a baseball bat.Dhaval Amratbhai Patel was initially arrested by the Worcester Police Department in Massachusetts on May 16 and charged…
NEW DELHI: With a large part of India battling heatwave conditions, PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday urged people to take adequate precautions and help others, and, later at a Cabinet meeting, called for a whole-of-nation approach in dealing with the scorching summer with various departments asked to take measures to bring relief to citizens.Modi told…
India’s sex ratio at birth (SRB) has improved from its recent low, but not by much. The latest SRS 2024 data put it at 918 girls per 1,000 boys for 2022-24, up from the low of 896 in 2015-17, still far below the biologically expected level. WHO data reports sex ratio at birth as male…
NEW DELHI: Health authorities have stepped up airport screening, traveller monitoring and quarantine measures following suspected Ebola cases in Bengaluru and Gujarat, though no infection has been confirmed in India so far.A 28-year-old Ugandan woman who had been isolated in Bengaluru over suspected Ebola infection has tested negative, bringing relief amid heightened concern over fresh…
NEW DELHI: Ten days after President promulgated an ordinance to increase the Supreme Court judge strength to 38, the SC collegium led by CJI Surya Kant on Wednesday recommended the Union govt to appoint four HC chief justices – Sheel Nagu, Shree Chandrashekhar, Sanjeev Sachdeva, Arun Palli – and senior advocate V Mohana as judges…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission shall, as directed by the Supreme Court, forward the list of electors deleted as part of the special intensive revision (SIR) across 13 states – primarily those classified as ‘others’, separate from the absent, shifted, dead, duplicate (ASDD) electors and, thus, of ‘suspect’ citizenship as well as the ones excluded…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Wednesday validated Election Commission‘s decision to conduct Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Bihar electoral rolls, rejected opposition’s stand that it was an arbitrary and exclusionary exercise and said SIR was carried out as per EC’s constitutional mandate of ensuring free and fair elections, which are founded on the integrity, accuracy…
NEW DELHI: Congress MLA Ashok K Pattan on Wednesday claimed that Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah will resign from the post on Thursday after 3pm.While talking to reporters, Pattan said that both the leaders will obey the Congress high command and claimed that deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar will likely succeed Siddaramaiah.“We went to the CM’s…
