Former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai, left, and CM M K Stalin NEW DELHI: Former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai on Wednesday levelled serious allegations against the DMK government, accusing it of orchestrating a Rs 888-crore cash-for-jobs scam in the Municipal Administration and Water Supply (MAWS) Department.Citing two news reports, Annamalai alleged that…
Screenshot from video shared by Assam minister and BJP leader Ashok Singhal Silchar: A political row has erupted across Assam, particularly in the Barak Valley, after senior Congress leader Bidhu Bhushan Das reportedly sang “Amar Sonar Bangla, Ami Tomay Bhalobasi”, the national anthem of Bangladesh, during a Congress Seva Dal meeting in Sribhumi on Monday.Das,…
NEW DELHI: To help bureaucrats issue quick and sharp responses to fight misinformation, the govt is sensitising its secretaries, joint secretaries, additional secretaries and directors on the use of new age media, including social media and podcasts, to put out facts coupled with information and status of schemes and programmes.TOI has learnt that a day-long…
Driver stops ambulance ‘seeing’ leopard, patient dies (Representative AI image) BHOPAL: A 20-year-old malaria patient being ferried to the hospital in an ambulance died after the driver stopped en route after allegedly spotting a leopard in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district on Monday. The patient’s kin accused the ambulance driver and medical attendant of demanding extra…
NEW DELHI: Weeks after the Election Commission announced poll dates in Bihar — and days after the Mahagathbandhan released its chief ministerial face — leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi finally kicked off his election campaign in the state on Wednesday. Addressing a rally in Muzaffarpur, the Congress leader launched a fierce…
BENGALURU: A 26-year-old former marketing executive was arrested by Kumbalagudu police Monday for murdering his girlfriend’s seven-year-old daughter because she was becoming a “disturbance” to his private time with her mother.The victim is Siri S, a class 2 student at a govt school in Ramasandra village near Kengeri and daughter of Shilpa S K. The…
LUCKNOW: The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday announced a Rs 30 per quintal increase in sugarcane prices for the 2025-26 crushing season, terming it a major pro-farmer decision that will benefit lakhs of cultivators across the state. With the latest revision, the price of the early variety of sugarcane has been fixed…
Yogi Adityanath (File – agency) NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief inister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday said that some forces were attempting to bring back “mafia raj” and “jungle raj” in Bihar, but the NDA government was determined to prevent that.Addressing an election rally in Raghunathpur, Yogi said, “forces active to revive ‘mafia raj’ in Bihar…
NEW DELHI: In a rather unusual chase across state lines, a group of tourists from Gujarat who allegedly left a Rajasthan restaurant without paying their Rs 10,900 bill were caught after getting stuck in traffic near the Gujarat border. According to police, the five tourists — including a woman — had checked into a Hotel…
The second trial of cloud seeding was conducted in Delhi through Cessna Aircraft. NEW DELHI: A political row erupted in the capital on Tuesday BJP-led Delhi government was accused of “committing fraud in the name of rain” by AAP, along with other jabs from opposition, following its much-publicised cloud seeding experiment, which failed to produce…
