NEW DELHI: Contesting the will of late businessman Sunjay Kapur, his children from ex-wife Karisma Kapoor claimed before Delhi high court Monday that there were “glaring errors” and contradictions in the document, including wrongly spelled names and addresses of the plaintiffs.Senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani, appearing for the children Samaira and Kiaan, alleged that the will…
NEW DELHI: Ahead of the Bihar polls, a new report based on an assessment of the affidavits submitted by the present MLAs prior to the 2020 assembly polls and details submitted in byelections conducted thereafter has revealed that of 241 MLAs (out of total 243) under consideration, 158 (66%) had declared that criminal cases were…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Monday asked voters in Bihar to not fall for RJD functionary Tejashwi Yadav‘s pledge of a government job to every household if his party is elected to office in state, saying they will never get the promised employment but end up losing their land. BJP’s Ravi Shankar Prasad mounted a fresh…
PATNA: Jan Suraaj on Monday announced its second list of candidates for 65 seats for Bihar assembly elections but kept up the suspense over its choice for the Raghopur seat, a bastion of Lalu Prasad’s family. Former deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav won the seat in 2015 and 2020 polls. Tejashwi is scheduled to file his…
NEW DELHI: The Congress is learnt to have conveyed to the government that the INDIA bloc will not be a part of the JPC set up to scrutinise the bills on automatic dismissal of jailed chief ministers and ministers, putting to an end questions over the issue.Sources said a senior Congress neta and MP had…
NEW DELHI: Afghanistan’s foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi urged Indian policymakers to push for the removal of US restrictions on the strategic Chabahar port.At an interaction organised by industry chamber Ficci, Muttaqi said Afghanistan wants “optimum utilisation” of Chabahar and wants India to raise the matter with the US. “Both countries (India and the US)…
KOLKATA: Amid outrage over the alleged gang rape of a medical student in Durgapur, governor C V Ananda Bose on Monday expressed deep concern over the “shocking” incident, saying he lacked confidence to say West Bengal is safe, and called for a “second renaissance” to make the state secure for women.Bose, who travelled to the…
ISI-backed smugglers up game CHANDIGARH: In past few weeks, security agencies manning anti-drone systems along Punjab border began noticing a strange trend – drones from Pakistan would be detected and tracked, but would whirr back behind the fence before they could be brought down. ISI-backed smugglers in Pakistan routinely try to send arms, including AK-47s…
National Commission for Women (NCW) has termed the gang rape of the medical student as a case of “brutality” enabled by “administrative and security lapses”, while recommending her transfer to AIIMS-Bhubaneswar or Kalyani for treatment and relocation to another college to continue her studies, if she felt unsafe. It has also recommended trial in fast-track…
