CHENNAI: A day after chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar defended the SIR of voter lists, Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin Monday said the defence raised more questions than answers.“How can there be so many deletions of eligible voters when house-to-house enumeration was undertaken,” Stalin asked Election Commission on X, listing six questions and lending…
GUWAHATI: A four-day-old baby girl undergoing phototherapy at Gauhati Medical College and Hospital’s neonatal ICU died Monday. The incident happened after the girl fell off a steel cot and got entangled in equipment cables while a nurse on duty was preparing milk nearby for the infants in the ward, officials said, reports Kangkan Kalita.The state-run…
NEW DELHI: The Union environment ministry on Monday informed Lok Sabha that at least 79 elephants have died in train collisions across the country in the last five years.In his written response to a Parliament question, MoS for environment Kirti Vardhan Singh said the figure is based on reports from state govt and UT administrations…
NEW DELHI: A 13-year-old girl from north-west Delhi’s Bharat Nagar, who left home following a dispute with her father, was rescued nearly a month later after being trafficked and forcibly married off in Uttar Pradesh. She boarded a train that took her to Meerut, where two men lured her with false promises and took her…
SURAT: In one of the biggest diamond thefts in recent memory, rough and polished stones worth over Rs 32 crore were stolen from a unit in the Kapodra area in the city in Gujarat, after thieves cut open an iron safe. Police suspect the burglary took place sometime between Aug 15 and 17, when most…
Union minister Piyush Goyal introducing the bill NEW DELHI: The govt Monday introduced the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2025, in Lok Sabha to decriminalise 288 provisions relating to minor offences under different central laws, in its bid to expand the reform agenda of ease of living and doing business. In several cases, it…
KOLKATA: The Centre Monday moved Supreme Court challenging a Calcutta high court order directing it to resume the MGNREGA scheme in West Bengal from Aug 1. The apex court is likely to hear the plea this week.In June, the HC had directed the Centre to resume the rural employment programme in the state from Aug…
Jaipur: The open-top safari truck coughed, rattled, stopped. Twenty tourists sat trapped in Ranthambore’s Zone-6 – a 25sqkm territory locals call “three-tiger country”. Time: 6pm. Darkness set in and the forest closed in. Panic spread. Parents whispered words of comfort to shush their crying children.For an hour and 45 minutes Saturday evening, the group remained…
BAREILLY: A 26-year-old woman, who was believed to have been murdered by her husband, turned up at Budaun’s Ujhani police station on Saturday with her lover and told police she had left her husband due to marital discord, was pregnant with her partner and wanted to live with him.An FIR was filed in Ujhani by…
Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla calls on PM Modi at his 7, Lok Kalyan Marg residence on Monday NEW DELHI: Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian astronaut to go to the International Space Station (ISS), was embraced by PM Narendra Modi when the country’s spaceman called on him at his 7, Lok Kalyan Marg residence…
