NEW DELHI: Congress General Secretary Sachin Pilot on Friday raised three pointed questions for the Centre during the ongoing Voter Adhikar Yatra in Bihar. Speaking from West Champaran, Pilot said the credibility of the Election Commission was under suspicion and stressed that the people of the country would not tolerate “vote theft.”In a post on…
Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday underlined what it called the “irony” of Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah joining Rahul Gandhi’s Voter Adhikar Yatra in Bihar against alleged “vote chori” (vote theft), recalling that the Congress leader himself had once accused the party of stealing votes.In a video…
RAJKOT: A 29-year-old married man has been arrested for allegedly raping his 22-year-old sister at knifepoint, twice in a six-week period, at their house in a village near Talaja town of Bhavnagar district.After the offence was perpetrated for the second time, the victim called the 181 helpline for women who face violence. She was taken…
NEW DELHI: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Tokyo on Friday for the India-Japan Economic Forum, Modi Archive, which narrates his life through archival records, recalled his first visit to the country in 2007, when he was Gujarat chief minister.In April 2007, PM Modi had embarked on a six-day visit to Japan, leading a…
JAIPUR/UDAIPUR: In a head-turning incident from southern Rajasthan, a 55-year-old woman from Jhadol village in Udaipur district has given birth to her 17th child, prompting the Rajasthan health department to launch an investigation into the underlying issues of population control in the region. This extraordinary case has highlighted the ongoing challenges faced by health officials…
PM Modi is presented with a Daruma Doll in Japan. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday was gifted a Daruma Doll by chief priest of the Shorinzan Daruma-Ji Temple, Rev Seishi Hirose, on his two-day visit to Japan. The Daruma is an iconic cultural symbol and souvenir of Japan. It has a strong…
NEW DELHI: A war of words ensued between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday after abuses were allegedly hurled at Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the INDIA bloc’s “Voter Adhikar Yatra” at Darbhanga.A day after the incident, Union home minister Amit Shah sharpened his attack against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and…
Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah (File photo) NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday underlined what it called the “irony” of Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah joining Rahul Gandhi’s Voter Adhikar Yatra in Bihar against alleged “vote chori” (vote theft), recalling that the Congress leader himself had once accused the party of stealing votes.In a video…
NEW DELHI: Senior lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi, while making his arguments on the scope of a governor’s powers in assenting to bills, read out a passage from one of Justice Krishna Iyer’s judgments and compared the judge’s prowess in English with that of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, incidentally both hailing from Kerala. Singhvi said unlike…
NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday ruled out the organisation’s support for campaigns to reclaim temples in Kashi (Varanasi) and Mathura, saying the Ram temple movement was the only one backed by the Sangh.“Ram temple is the only movement that the RSS supported, it will not join any other, but…
