NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India on Sunday hit back at Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders, rejecting their allegations of vote theft and concerns related to SIR in Bihar as “misleading”.“Using words like vote chori to mislead people is a disrespect to the Constitution,” Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said.Addressing a…
KOLKATA/HINDMOTOR: Thieves broke into the Hindmotor house of former ace swimmer Bula Choudhury and cleaned up her trophy cabinet that contained almost all her awards — over 150 medals and mementos that she had won during a career spanning more than a decade-and-a-half. The loss included the Padma Shri brooch she received in 2009 and…
PM Modi at inauguration of two major national highway projects in Delhi-NCR (Screen grab from X @narendramodi) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a scathing attack on the Congress, accusing previous governments of undermining the spirit of the Constitution and perpetuating oppressive laws.While speaking at the inauguration of two major national highway…
Foreign secretary Vikram Misri calls on Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli during his two-day visit, in Kathmandu on Sunday. (Picture credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: Foreign secretary Vikram Misri started his two-day visit to Nepal on Sunday with a courtesy meeting with Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli in Singha Durbar. The meeting was also attended…
MUMBAI: An IndiGo Airbus A321 aircraft, operating flight 6E1060 from Bangkok, suffered a tail strike while landing in Mumbai amid heavy rains in the early hours of Saturday.Flight 6E1060 departed Bangkok at 11.40 pm and landed in Mumbai around 3 am. Before touching down on runway 27 at the airport, the aircraft executed a go-around….
NEW DELHI: Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Sunday refuted the opposition’s allegations of hatching a conspiracy of “vote theft” through the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.In his first press conference amid the revision exercise, the CEC said the poll body has “no opponents and no supporters” and that every political…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India on Sunday, in its first presser since the controversial special intensive revision (SIR) in Bihar, dismissed the opposition’s claims of biased approach towards any political party and said that there was “no ruling side or opposition for us”. “As per the Constitution of India, every citizen of India…
BENGALURU: A 34-year-old woman on a scooter was allegedly sexually harassed by a stranger in the afternoon recently. The miscreant, also on a scooter, touched her inappropriately and made vulgar comments.The Aug 11 incident happened between 2.45pm and 3.05pm on Mylasandra Road in Electronics City. The woman, a teacher and resident of Hulimavu, told Electronics…
Bihar gets boost: NHAI completes 6-lane Ganga Bridge on NH-31, reducing travel distance by 150 km The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) successfully completed the Aunta (Mokama) – Simaria (Begusarai) Bridge Project on National Highway-31. The 8.15 km long project, built at an estimated cost of Rs 1,871 crore, features a 6-lane extra-dosed bridge…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday launched the party’s ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ in Bihar, a 16-day march covering more than 1,300 km across over 20 districts. The campaign, aimed at protesting against the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list and what the Congress calls “vote chori,” began from Sasaram…
