NEW DELHI: After days of hectic parleys and hard bargaining by allies, NDA is said to have reached an agreement with its constituents for Bihar polls, and a formal announcement is likely on Sunday. The BJP central election committee (CEC) is set to finalise its candidates at a meeting on Sunday, in the presence of…
BHOPAL: The MP SIT probing the Coldrif tragedy that claimed the lives of 20 kids from Chhindwara and three from other districts is examining the entire supply chain of the cough syrup — from procurement of raw materials to distribution of the contaminated drug — aiming to fix accountability at every stage. Investigators confirmed that…
CHANDIGARH: In the strongest commitment yet of action in the alleged suicide of senior IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini warned on Saturday that no one will be spared, “no matter how influential”. The CM’s statement came hours after Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya was removed from his post. Bijarniya has…
NEW DELHI: Notorious fugitive gangster Rashid Cablewala, who has been linked to several murders in Delhi, was detained in Azerbaijan on arriving from Istanbul, sources confirmed, with Indian intelligence agencies now gearing up to bring him back, reports Rajshekhar Jha.It is unclear whether he was imprisoned there or kept under surveillance post-bond. Cablewala, who is…
DURGAPURA: A second-year MBBS student (23) of a private medical college in Bengal’s Durgapur was allegedly gang-raped by four to five unidentified men Friday, shortly after she stepped out for dinner with a classmate, reports Mohammad Asif. Police have detained the classmate after the survivor’s parents, from Odisha’s Balasore, alleged he and his associates were…
DEHRADUN: In what is being termed an unprecedented series of recusals, another judge has decided to withdraw from a case involving Uttarakhand-cadre Indian Forest Service officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi. Justice Alok Verma of the Uttarakhand high court became the 16th judge to recuse from Chaturvedi’s case, and the second one within a fortnight. Verma’s recusal order,…
PM Modi Saturday launched two mega central schemes, with a total Rs 35,440 crore outlay, to transform 100 low-performing agricultural districts and increase production of pulses to reduce imports. Addressing a gathering of farmers and farm policymakers at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, the PM urged farmers to focus on self-reliance and exports. “We have to…
shehbaz sharif (left), Amir Muttaqi and S Jaishankar (File – agencies) Pakistan has lodged formal objections with Afghanistan’s Ambassador in Islamabad over several ‘elements of the India‑Afghanistan joint statement’, particularly the reference to Jammu and Kashmir as ‘part of India’. It also rejected remarks by Afghan foreign minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi that “terrorism is…
Aizawl: Director of the Rights and Risks Analysis Group Suhas Chakma on Friday appealed to CMs of the northeastern states, including Mizoram CM Lalduhoma, to raise the issue of sharing the burden of the migrants from their states with Arunachal Pradesh CMPema Khandu after Khandu raised the issue of relocation of the Chakmas and Hajongs…
NEW DELHI: Chief Justice B R Gavai on Saturday said despite constitutional guarantees, many girls continue to be tragically denied their fundamental rights and even basic necessities for survival and face harmful practices like female genital mutilation (FGM). Interestingly, a PIL challenging the validity of FGM, practised among certain Muslims, is pending before a ninejudge…
