PATNA: RJD‘s Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday alleged that EC’s credibility had been largely eroded due to controversies surrounding the SIR of electoral rolls in Bihar. “At each booth, the names of at least 50 living electors have been deleted on grounds that they are dead. We have proof,” Tejashwi told reporters in Araria during INDIA…
BENGALURU: Enforcement Directorate (ED) sleuths on Sunday brought Congress MLA K C Veerendra to Bengaluru for further investigation into a money laundering case linked to illegal betting, with sources saying that he will be also questioned in matters related to casinos in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Georgia linked to the politicians.According to the sources, the…
NEW DELHI: Asserting that Supreme Court‘s order does not designate Aadhaar as valid address proof for voter enrolment, BJP on Sunday accused opposition of persisting with ‘false propaganda’ over voters excluded during the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of Bihar’s electoral rolls.“Aadhaar is only proof of identity and residence, and it does not establish citizenship,”…
MUMBAI: In a build-up to municipal polls in Maharashtra, the Thackeray cousins are now invoking ‘vote chori’, backing Congress MP Rahul Gandhi‘s charges of irregularities in polling and voter enumeration. A day after MNS chief Raj Thackeray raised this issue in Pune, Sena UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday asked party workers to be alert…
JAMMU: PM Narendra Modi is very concerned about the cloudburst in Chishoti village in J&K’s Kishtwar and is monitoring the situation,” defence minister Rajnath Singh told reporters after meeting the injured victims at Government Medical College Hospital in Jammu Sunday.“PM Modi wanted to know about the ground situation. Therefore, I came here to meet the…
The water level of the Tawi river rises after heavy rainfall, in Jammu. JAMMU: Several parts of Jammu division witnessed flash flood-like situations due to continuous heavy rainfall, which even damaged a bridge on the Jammu-Pathankot NH. Jammu city recorded a precipitation of 190.4mm in a 24-hour period, marking its second-highest single-day rainfall in Aug…
NEW DELHI: In light of increasing incidents of natural disaster like cloudbursts and floods badly impacting highways and disrupting normal life, the govt has notified a detailed Disaster Management Plan (DMP) for the road and highway sector, specifying timelines for quick inspection and preparation of rehabilitation plan, for officials in the field as well as…
The findings are based on a detailed survey of 2,426 on-board passengers across 96 selected trains, conducted by audit offices from 16 zones. NEW DELHI: In a telling indicator of the persistent cleanliness issues on long-distance trains — from choked toilets and unclean washbasins to lack of water and dirty vestibule areas — an audit…
BATHINDA: Acting on specific intelligence, a party of Barnala police team apprehended four members of a group associated with Bambiha gang. Four weapons including a Turkey made Zigana pistol has been recovered from the arrested persons, belonging to Punjab, Haryana and Delhi. Those arrested have been identified as Satnam Singh @ Satti (linked with Bambiha…
A shocking case has emerged from Odisha’s Ganjam district, where a nursing home proprietor has been arrested for allegedly conducting a delivery without any medical qualification, leading to the death of both a mother and her newborn. Police said Mangulu Charan Pradhan (35), a resident of Dengausta, carried out the procedure inside his nursing home…
