NEW DELHI: RJD MP Sudhakar Singh on Saturday alleged that a “sleeper cell” of the BJP and RSS were behind the abuse directed at Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an opposition rally in Bihar, reiterating Congress‘s earlier claim that “BJP agents” were planted to create a controversy.His remarks come after a viral video from Congress…
NEW DELHI: A Belgian court of appeal has once again rejected the bail plea of fugitive diamond trader Mehul Choksi, who is wanted in India in connection with the Rs 6,300-crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case. The decision comes just days before his extradition hearing scheduled in mid-September, news agency PTI quoted.Officials said the…
NEW DELHI: A sewadar at Kalkaji Temple in southeast Delhi has died after being beaten by a group of visitors during a dispute over ‘Chunni Prasad’, police said. The victim, Yogendra Singh, 35, had been serving at the temple for around 14–15 years. He was originally from Fattepur in Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh. Police said a…
Mohan Bhagwat and Akhilesh Yadav (R) NEW DELHI: Taking on RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s claim that Indians have shared “the same DNA for 40,000 years,” Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday turned the remark into a political weapon. Speaking at a rally in Bihar alongside Rahul Gandhi‘s Voter Adhikar Yatra, Akhilesh mocked the statement…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi sweetened a sour protest when he pulled out candies for BJYM workers waving black flags at him in Bihar’s Arrah protest. While the Rae Barelli MP was doing ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra,’ he witnessed the black-flag protests in Arrah over his alleged remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his…
GHAZIABAD: A case was registered against a 29-year-old woman in Loni for allegedly trying to stab her husband on Friday. A 16-second video shows the man holding a child in his arms while the woman brandishes a knife three to four times, until the child snatches it from her.The man, a resident of Ashok Vihar,…
Carpenters and servitors busy in constructing wheels for the chariots of Lord Jagannath, Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra ahead of the Rath Yatra festival, in Puri, Odisha. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has agreed to a proposal by the Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) to install three wheels from the chariots used…
Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath (ANI image) VARANASI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath visited Sampurnanand Sanskrit Vishwavidyalaya to inspect the preservation work being carried out under the National Mission for Manuscripts.This is CM Adityanath’s third visit to the university campus, with the people extending a traditional welcome with students chanting Vedic mantras and reciting…
MP Akhilesh Yadav joins last leg of Voter Adhikar Yatra (Image credits: ANI) NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday criticised the Election Commission of (EC), alleging that the poll body has become the “Jugaad Commission” of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Yadav arrived in Bihar to join the 16-day Voter Adhikar…
Former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal (ANI image) NEW DELHI: Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party over its handling of law and order in the national capital after a sewadar in Delhi’s Kalkaji Temple was murdered over a dispute related to ‘chunni prasad’.“Didn’t the…
