Congress leader Pawan Khera (File Photo) NEW DELHI: The Election Commission dismissed around 89 lakh complaints of irregularities flagged by the Congress’s Booth Level Agents (BLAs) during the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in Bihar, Pawan Khera claimed on Sunday. Alleging that the irregularities cast doubt on the intention of the EC, the chairman…
NEW DELHI: India is likely to get more than normal rainfall in September, adding to a monsoon season already marked by extreme weather and heavy damage from rains.The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday said that rainfall in September is expected to be more than 109% of the long-period average of 167.9 mm. The forecast…
In Delhi’s Malviya Nagar, 19-year-old Vivek was fatally stabbed, and his cousin Aman was injured in an attack by a group of young men. The assailants, after the attack, robbed a delivery boy of his scooter. NEW DELHI: A 19-year-old youth was stabbed to death and his cousin was injured after allegedly being attacked by…
PM Modi and Xi agreed that India and China are “partners, not rivals” and stressed peaceful ties to boost trade and stability. Meanwhile, American journalist Rick Sanchez criticised Trump’s 25% tariffs on India’s Russian oil trade, calling the policy “disrespectful and ignorant.“India, China vow to deepen partnership amid global trade tensionsPrime Minister Narendra Modi and…
BENGALURU: A 23-year-old woman was killed on the spot after being hit by a speeding car at Yelahanka Saturday night. Ishani Sarkar from Odisha was standing by the roadside when the incident occurred.Preliminary investigations revealed that Ishani and her friend were returning to the city from Devanahalli via the Kempegowda International Airport expressway when their…
NEW DELHI: Industries, cooperatives and other entities, involved in tree plantation in degraded forest land or in other identified land parcels, will be able earn Green Credit only after completion of minimum five years of restoration activities and after achieving a minimum canopy density of 40% (overhead layer of tree crown covering 40% of the…
NEW DELHI: Punjab is battling one of the worst flood disasters in decades, with chief minister Bhagwant Mann urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to release Rs 60,000 crore of the state’s funds which, he said, were “stuck” with the Centre.In a letter sent on Sunday, Mann said that about 1,000 villages and lakhs of people…
NEW DELHI: The Bihar Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Sunday dismissed media reports alleging large-scale duplication in the state’s draft electoral rolls (SIR 2025), calling the claims “speculative, premature, and contrary to law.”In a post on X, the CEO emphasised that the SIR is a statutory exercise conducted under the Representation of the People Act…
NEW DELHI: A 35-year-old sewadar was on Friday brutally beaten to death with sticks by a group of men inside the premises of southeast Delhi’s Kalkaji Temple following a dispute over the distribution of chunni prasad. Police have arrested five people so far, including the father of one of the men for harbouring him. Delhi…
Both Kusum Sinha, 63, and Priya Sehgal, 34, lived in Rohini NEW DELHI: A man killed his wife and mother-in-law with a pair of scissors in northwest Delhi’s KN Katju Marg area following a heated argument over a birthday gift for their son. The accused, Yogesh Sehgal, was later arrested in Rohini, where he was…
