PATNA: A 25-year-old woman was allegedly burnt alive by her husband in a village under Islampur police station area of Nalanda district on Saturday. The woman’s husband allegedly poured kerosene on her and set her on fire. According to the family of the deceased, the couple had no children and the husband wanted to remarry…
NEW DELHI: For the second time in two days, Taliban foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi laid claim to the Afghanistan embassy despite absence of formal recognition of his regime by India. He addressed another press conference in the building, speaking on women’s rights in the country, among other things. Unlike in the media interaction on…
PATNA: Barely five days left for the close of nominations for the first phase of Bihar assembly polls, a seat-sharing deal continued to elude the opposition INDIA bloc on Sunday as RJD chief Lalu Prasad and his son Tejashwi Yadav reached New Delhi in connection with a case of alleged irregularities in the award of…
NEW DELHI: Three persons were arrested on Sunday for their alleged involvement in the ‘gang rape’ of student of a private medical college in West Bengal’s Paschim Bardhaman district, police said.The identities of the accused have not yet been revealed.“We have arrested three persons in connection with the case. They are being questioned. This is…
NEW DELHI: An equal share for BJP and JD(U) — 101 seats each — and a generous 29 for Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) are the highlights of the seat-sharing agreement among NDA partners announced Sunday for Bihar assembly elections. The rest 12 out of 243 seats have been equally split among Union minister…
SRINAGAR: Accused of promoting “land jihad” through her proposed land regularisation bill, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti struck back Sunday — charging BJP with “embracing the Taliban” while allegedly branding Indian Muslims as extremists.“In the garb of accusing people of waging ‘jihad’, Muslims were lynched and demonised. Yet today, this government salutes the Taliban,” she told…
Northern Army commander reviews operational preps in J&K’s Rajouri JAMMU: Northern Army Commander Lt Gen Pratik Sharma visited the forward areas of the border district of Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday and reviewed the operational preparedness of the troops deployed there.His visit comes in the wake of a brief exchange of firing between…
Photo credit: X/@MoDAfghanistan2 Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesperson for the Taliban government in Afghanistan, announced on Sunday that 58 Pakistani soldiers were killed during Saturday night’s clash between Afghan and Pakistani forces along the border, Afghanistan’s news outlet Tolo News reported.According to Zabihullah, in these clashes, 9 members of the Taliban forces were also killed and 16…
Jammu and Kashmir Congress president Tariq Hamid Karra SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir Congress president Tariq Hamid Karra on Sunday said his party would not contest the October 24 Rajya Sabha elections to four seats in the Union territory, accusing alliance partner National Conference (NC) of refusing it a “safe seat”.Addressing reporters after a party meeting…
The survivor, who has recorded her statement, is on bedrest and her father has requested to move her to Odisha for safety NEW DELHI: Three persons were arrested on Sunday for their alleged involvement in the gang rape of a medical student in West Bengal’s Paschim Bardhaman district, police said. The survivor, currently under treatment…
