NEW DELHI: As the Mahagathbandhan named Tejashwi Yadav its chief ministerial candidate, the question of who will lead Bihar if the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) returns to power has once again taken centre stage. The NDA has so far refrained from naming chief minister Nitish Kumar as its CM face, a silence that has…
AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday escalated its attack on the BJP government over the Yamuna’s pollution levels ahead of Chhath puja, with the party’s Delhi unit chief Saurabh Bharadwaj challenging chief minister Rekha Gupta to drink water from the river to prove her claims that it had…
NOIDA: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday inspected the site of the upcoming Noida International Airport in the Gautam Buddh Nagar district, which is expected to be operational soon, officials said.Adityanath conducted an on-site inspection at Jewar before holding a review meeting with senior officials of the district and airport authorities. The meeting…
NEW DELHI: A seven-year-old thalassemia patient in West Singhbhum, Jharkhand, was tested HIV-positive, prompting an investigation into allegations that the local blood bank transfused contaminated blood.The matter came to light on Friday after the child’s family accused the blood bank of providing infected blood. Since the child began treatment, around 25 units of blood had…
NEW DELHI: Hours after 20 people died in a bus fire in Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool following a collision with a bike, CCTV footage circulating on social media allegedly shows the biker, suspected of causing the accident, was drunk.The Bengaluru-bound private bus caught fire in the early hours of Friday after hitting a two-wheeler. The blaze…
Kurnool bus fire (ANI Photo), Canadian flag (AP Photo) Latest probe into the Kurnool bus fire found that a consignment of 400 smartphones may have worsened the blaze that killed 20, with a bike fuel tank explosion reported as the trigger. Canada’s immigration system faces a sharp rise in visa and permit refusals, with temporary…
Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj party faces significant hurdles in Bihar’s upcoming elections. Candidate desertions and worker discontent plague the new political force. Both ruling alliances and opposition accuse Jan Suraaj of being a ‘B team,’ raising questions about its electoral viability and potential to act as a spoiler. NEW DELHI: Bihar has long been a…
RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar NEW DELHI: INDIA bloc’s chief ministerial candidate Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday vowed to make Bihar a leading state by attracting investments and setting up factories, if the opposition coalition is voted to power.Addressing an election rally in Gogri in Khagaria, Yadav said, “We need to make…
Yuzvendra Chahal with sister on Bhai Dooj. (Instagram) Kenaa Dwivedi, sister of India cricketer Yuzvendra Chahal, shared a heartfelt note on Bhai Dooj praising her brother’s respectful nature and composure, shortly after his ex-wife Dhanashree Verma discussed their marriage and separation on the show ‘Rise and Fall’. The timing of Kenaa’s message follows Dhanashree’s recent…
NEW DELHI: An Air India flight operating from Nagpur to Delhi on 24 October was forced to return to Nagpur shortly after take-off following a bird strike, the airline confirmed.“Flight AI466, operating from Nagpur to Delhi, on 24 October, experienced a bird-hit shortly after take-off. The crew decided to return to Nagpur as a precautionary…
