Amit Shah and Mahua Moitra (File photo) NEW DELHI: TMC MP Mahua Moitra has lit a political powder keg with her explosive remark targeting Union home minister Amit Shah, allegedly saying his “head should be cut off”. The BJP condemned the statement as a “distasteful and hate remark,” with the party lodging a complaint at…
Tuticorin/Chennai: Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chairman and space secretary V Narayanan on Wednesday said rockets weighing up to 500kg will be launched from the upcoming launch pad at Kulasekarapattinam. This comes in the wake of assumptions that India’s second major rocket launch site after Sriharikota would handle only small-scale missions. He said the site…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Japan asserted that India and Japan are poised to jointly influence the Asian century’s trajectory towards stability, growth and prosperity. Tensions flared between Congress and the BJP on Friday after PM Modi was allegedly abused during the INDIA bloc’s “Voter Adhikar Yatra” in Darbhanga. Meanwhile, India’s GDP…
Following intelligence reports, Bihar is under high security alert due to the suspected infiltration of three Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists from Pakistan via the Nepal border. PATNA: Bihar has been placed on the high security alert after intelligence inputs suggested that three Pakistani terrorists linked to Jaish-e-Mohammed slipped into the state through the porous India-Nepal border. Police…
Asaduddin Owaisi (ANI image) NEW DELHI: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday questioned why Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears “scared of the US,” while slamming the government over the imposition of a 50 per cent tariff on Indian exports by the United States.Speaking to reporters, Owaisi questioned: “US’ Peter Navarro is making statements. Had the…
A man from Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district has finally returned home, nearly five years after going missing, but in a mentally unstable state following his time in a Pakistani jail, officials said on Friday.The 45-year-old Suraj Pal, a resident of Akrampur Sultan Khera village in the Sadar Kotwali area, disappeared on 27 October 2020. His…
NEW DELHI: India is ready to advance bilateral relations from a strategic and long-term perspective based on mutual respect, mutual interest, and mutual sensitivity, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday. PM Modi, who is in Japan for a two-day visit, will be traveling to China’s Tianjin to take part in the SCO Summit. The…
BENGALURU: A pregnant software engineer, who has a nearly two-year-old son, was found hanging in her BTM Layout I Stage residence late Tuesday night. Police did not find any death note in the house.P Shilpa’s mother, B Sharada, filed a complaint with Suddaguntepalya police, accusing her son-in-law, Praveen, and his mother, Shantavva, of abetting her…
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Friday escalated its battle with the Election Commission, claiming that a Right to Information (RTI) response has exposed “serious contradictions” in the poll body’s stance over the ongoing row over recently conducted special intensive revision (SIR) in poll-bound Bihar.Taking to X, the Congress asserted that its RTI query revealed “no…
YADGIR: A class 9 girl of a govt residential school delivered a baby boy in the institution’s restroom in Shahapur taluk of the district on Wednesday evening in a case of shocking lapses by the school & hostel staff.Karnataka Educational Institutions Society executive director Kantharaju suspended the school principal, hostel warden, science teacher and physical…
