NEW DELHI: Asserting that India is driving global growth, PM Narendra Modi on Saturday said the Centre is ready to unleash an “arsenal of reforms” on multiple fronts, while underlining the need to be self-reliant.“We are working towards quantum jump, not incremental change. Reforms are not a compulsion, nor are they crisis-driven; it is our…
Anil Ambani’s residence ‘Sea Wind’ at Cuffe Parade, in Mumbai, Saturday, Aug. 23. 2025. MUMBAI: Having registered a case against industrialist Anil Ambani on Thursday, CBI on Saturday carried out searches at his Cuffe Parade residence and Reliance Communications premises in connection with an alleged bank fraud that caused a loss of over Rs 2,929…
NEW DELHI: The ongoing ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ of Rahul Gandhi-Tejashwi Yadav is set to become a show of opposition unity, with senior netas of regional parties scheduled to join the 16-day roadshow ahead of its culmination in Patna on September 1.While Tamil Nadu CM and DMK chief MK Stalin will join the yatra on Aug…
NEW DELHI: Calling it a farce, TMC and Samajwadi Party Saturday announced they would not join JPC on the bills and constitutional amendment that prescribe dismissal of CMs, ministers and the PM if they remain under arrest for 30 days. While TMC’s boycott was expected, SP’s decision has increased pressure on Congress to follow suit…
PATNA: Diwakar Sharma remembers the past two elections clearly. His wife Deepti voted both times without trouble. Now her name has disappeared from the electoral roll, and the couple has just a week to prove she still belongs.Across Bihar, thousands are scrambling to reclaim their place on the rolls before the Sept 1 deadline –…
Chennai: Madras HC recently reduced a one-year sentence to four days for a Kerala man convicted in a 2013 car crash that killed three pedestrians and grievously injured two bikers – ruling he was rushing a stranger who had attempted suicide to a hospital.Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy said driver S Sagul Hameed was not acting…
A road is damaged after heavy rains, at Peer Kho in Jammu. (ANI file photo) JAMMU: A 52-year-old woman and her son were among three persons killed in two separate rain-related accidents while a fourth died after he was swept away in a flash flood Saturday.Several districts in Jammu region were lashed by rain since…
Jammu: CJM court in Jammu has denied bail to a 19-year-old man who allegedly ran over a 68-year-old under his SUV, leaving him with a fractured skull and brain hemorrhage, after the elderly man’s scooter grazed his recklessly driven vehicle. The court termed the accused’s act a deliberate ‘attempt to murder’ a helpless senior citizen.“Running…
New Delhi: A day after ED conducted searches at 30 premises associated with Karnataka Congress MLA KC Veerendra and on his alleged nationwide illegal betting and gambling network, the agency Saturday arrested him from Gangtok where he had gone to set up a casino.ED searches Friday led to the seizure of Rs 12 crore cash,…
CHASOTI (KISHTWAR): The poem began with a warning, a child’s voice — high-pitched, but intense — carrying through the govt-run Chasoti Middle School. The video, recorded hours before the flood, shows Suman Devi, 11, rehearsing ‘Dharti’ on Aug 14 for the Independence Day event — something that didn’t happen. Among the 14 villagers swept away…
