NEW DELHI: A few days ahead of announcement of Bihar assembly poll dates, NDA parties are on the verge of finalising seat-sharing arrangements. They expect a better performance than in 2020, when key ally Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) had contested independently.Home minister Amit Shah, who will steer the alliance strategy, held the first round of…
Chhattisgarh police Thursday arrested retired IAS officer Niranjan Das in connection with the alleged Rs 2,500-crore liquor scam, Amresh Mishra, head of state’s ACB and EOW, told TOI.Das, who was commissioner and excise secretary of the state before retiring in 2023, is accused of a key role in the state’s biggest such scam. Cops allege…
MUMBAI: Rahul Mukerjea was offered advice and assistance to lodge a missing person’s report when he said his girlfriend, Sheena Bora, disappeared in 2012, but “he never took” help offered by a lawyer. Bora’s childhood friend, a homemaker from Guwahati, said this during a cross-examination in Sheena Bora case, while deposing as prosecution witness before…
NEW DELHI: The Indian government on Friday said it expects Riyadh to be mindful of mutual interests and sensitivities in keeping with the “wide-ranging strategic partnership, which has deepened considerably in the last few years”.The statement by MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal followed media queries on the issue. Saudi Arabia and Pakistan this week formalised their…
NEW DELHI: Moving fast on PM Modi’s Independence Day announcement, the Union Cabinet has approved the setting up of a high-level committee (HLC) which will study and suggest measures to deal with demographic changes arising from illegal immigration. It will also study “other abnormal causes” for the issue which Modi has called a security challenge.TOI…
Air Chief Marshal AP Singh NEW DELHI: The world should learn about conflict termination from India, which ended the cross-border hostilities with Pakistan after striking it “nice and hard” under Operation Sindoor while taking care to avoid civilian casualties, because it had achieved its main objectives, Air Chief Marshal A P Singh said on Friday.Citing…
NEW DELHI: The world is aware of the nexus between terrorists and the Pakistani state and military, said the govt on Friday. The MEA was responding to reports about a Jaish-e-Mohammed commander admitting that the Pakistan army chief, Asim Munir, had ordered senior army officers to attend the funeral of terrorists killed in India’s Operation…
NEW DELHI: Reckless development activities may well have exacerbated weather-related devastation in north India this monsoon, but the sheer amount of rain the region received almost without a break was unprecedented in recent decades. Total rainfall across north India since June 1 crossed 740mm on Friday, making it the wettest monsoon in the region in…
Hizbul Mujahideen is building a new facility named ‘HM-313’ in Bandai, KPK, photographs show Elimination of nine terror infrastructure in Pakistan during Operation Sindoor has led major Pakistan-sponsored terrorist groups, particularly Jaish-e-Muhammed and Hizbul Mujahideen, to move deep inside Pakistan, closer to the Afghanistan border. The intelligence establishment has received credible visual confirmation that the…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Friday trashed a petition against the Karnataka government’s invite to Booker prize winner author Banu Mushtaq as chief guest for the Mysuru Dasara festival at Chamundeshwari temple. Dismissing its claim that participation of a “non-Hindu would hurt religious sentiments”, the court said in a secular country, there can be no discrimination…
