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Sameer Wankhede; Aryan Khan NEW DELHI: Former Mumbai zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Sameer Wankhede, on Saturday declined to comment on the “Ba**ds of Bollywood”* series, offering only a cryptic response.Also Read | Ba***ds of Bollywood row: Ex-NCB officer Sameer Wankhede files defamation case against Shahrukh Khan production company Red Chillies Entertainment…

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party slammed Mamata Banerjee over a viral video of the ‘Kaaba in my heart’ song being sung at a Durga Pandal, and the West Bengal chief minister clapping to it and said that this is the limit of appeasement politics. A video, shared by BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya,…

Picture source: Spiti Wildlife Division NEW DELHI: UNESCO on Saturday designated India’s Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve, located in the western Himalayas and spread over 7,770 sq km of windswept plateaus, glacial valleys, and high-altitude desert from Leh and Kargil districts of Ladakh to Lahaul and Spiti district in Himachal Pradesh, as one of the biosphere…

NEW DELHI: India will have 13 UNESCO Biosphere Reserves with the UN body on Saturday designating the country’s Cold Desert Biosphere Reserve for that list. Twenty-six new sites have been added during the fifth World Congress of Biosphere Reserves (WCBR) in Hangzhou, China. This is India’s first high-altitude cold desert biosphere reserve and one of…

Tauqeer Raza; Harjit Kaur Cracking down a day after violent protests in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly, police on Sunday detained cleric Tauqeer Raza Khan, chief of the Ittehad-e-Millat Council, who had called for a protest in support of the ‘I love Muhammad’ campaign. The clash between demonstrators and police broke out following Friday prayers in the…

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Saturday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the govt’s scheme to provide Rs 10,000 to 75 lakh women in Bihar, alleging that he is engaging in “vote revdi” alongside “vote chori”. Congress general secretary (communications) Jairam Ramesh said that while PM Modi criticised the Karnataka govt’s Griha Lakshmi scheme, which…

BMW crash accused Gaganpreet Kaur NEW DELHI: Delhi’s Patiala court on Saturday granted bail to accused Gaganpreet Kaur in connection BMW accident case which killed Navjot Singh, deputy secretary in the ministry of finance on September 14.The court granted bail to Kaur on a bond of Rs 1 lakh and two sureties of the same…

Tej Pratap Yadav, Tejashvi Yadav (PTI photos) Tej Pratap Yadav, who recently floated his new party Jan Shakti Janta Dal, has launched an attack on RJD, his ancestral party from which he was sidelined.Speaking to reporters on Saturday, the eldest son of Lalu Prasad Yadav slammed RJD leader and his younger brother Tejashwi on the…

Harjit Kaur, a 73-year-old Sikh woman (Image credits: ANI) NEW DELHI: Harjit Kaur, a 73-year-old Sikh woman who spent 30 years in the United States, shared her ordeal with the ICE after she was arrested and deported to India.“Their behaviour was very bad. I was arrested on 8 September… I was arrested and taken to…