Kapil Mishra (left) Arvind Kejriwal (ANI) NEW DLEHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday hit back at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) over allegations of pollution in the Yamuna, asserting that it had “never claimed the river was clean or its water drinkable,” even as the opposition stepped up attacks ahead of Chhath Puja…
NEW DELHI: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, addressing a rally in Patna, announced a series of welfare measures for Bihar’s Panchayati Raj representatives, should the INDIA bloc come to power in the upcoming elections.Tejashwi promised a substantial increase in per-quintal margin money for PDS distributors, along with pension schemes and a Rs 50 lakh insurance cover…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday extended his wishes to citizens for Kharna Puja, a key ritual of the four-day Chhath festival, which honours Surya Dev and Chhathi Maiya. PM Modi in a post on X said: “Heartfelt greetings to all on the auspicious occasion of Kharna Puja during the grand festival of…
Patna’s richest man, RK Sinha, transformed a personal tragedy into a global security empire. From a journalist’s harrowing experience to a modest start-up, his company, SIS, now employs over 283,000 people worldwide, generating billions in revenue. A founding BJP member, Sinha’s journey is a testament to resilience and entrepreneurial vision. India is a vibrant hub…
“The Pakistanis will lose,” says ex-CIA officer warning against war with India Pakistan would lose any conventional war with India, and open conflict holds no positives for Islamabad, former CIA officer John Kiriakou said, calling the US-Pak strategic relationship over the decades a “transactional” one. “Nothing, literally nothing good will come of an actual war…
Former CIA officer John Kiriakou The US intelligence community believed that India and Pakistan were on the brink of war in 2002, following the Parliament attack (Dec 2001) and the tense military standoff that followed under Operation Parakram, former CIA officer John Kiriakou said. Such was the threat perception that families were evaucated from Islamabad,…
Surrendered CPI (Maoist) senior member Bhupathi NAGPUR: Red fury has turned inward. The central committee of the banned CPI (Maoist) has lashed out at its own politburo senior Mallojula Venugopal Rao, alias Bhupathi or Sonu, branding him a “revolutionary traitor” and “counter-revolutionary” for allegedly engineering a “historic betrayal” – the mass surrender of 61 Maoist…
AHMEDABAD: A DJ party at a farmhouse in Ahmedabad’s Shilaj locality turned into a raid, with undercover officers from Bopal police finding liquor and hookahs – both prohibited in Gujarat – being openly served. By Saturday morning, 20 people, including 13 foreign students, two bootleggers and owners of the farmhouse, were arrested. “…Thirteen African students…
Indian-origin woman arrested and later released in North Carolina for knife attack on husband what she claimed an accident. Chandraprabha Singh, an Indian-origin 44-year-old woman, was arrested earlier this month after she allegedly cut her husband Arvind’s neck with a knife. Singh is a teacher assistant at a Charlotte elementary school. She was accused of…
NEW DELHI: Gujarat and Maharashtra have taken the lead among 13 coastal states and Union Territories in installing indigenous transponders, a tracking device guided by space technology, in marine fishing vessels. The devices are being used for transmitting real-time weather alerts and disaster warnings such as cyclones, monitoring, control and surveillance. The effectiveness of the…
