NEW DELHI: If one moment conveyed NDA’s triumphant mood at the swearing-in ceremony in Patna after its massive poll win, it was the sight of PM Narendra Modi waving a ‘gamcha’ to the crowd of happy supporters, many of whom cheerfully responded by swinging their own ‘gamchas’.A utilitarian accoutrement in everyday life, especially for the…
Lucknow: The Vistadome Train Safari on the 107 km Mailani-Bichia route is fast gaining popularity among tourists in UP.While it was launched in May last year, the service could not take off as Dudhwa tiger reserved closed in June. In April this year, only four passengers boarded the train but by June, the number of…
Actor Vivek Oberoi raised eyebrows once again, this time with his fiery reflections and remarks on fame. The actor, in a rather candid chat, shared his thoughts about the fickle nature of fame. While he was at it, he even suggested that the megastars could just lose their stardom and legacy some years down the…
NEW DELHI: Amid the rumblings triggered by the opposition’s comprehensive defeat in Bihar, Congress said it was committed to INDIA bloc and would double efforts to strengthen the national alliance.AICC general secretary K C Venugopal said the INDIA bloc was put together as an arrangement at the national level for like-minded parties to coordinate their…
NEW DELHI/PATNA: As the swearing-in ceremony ended at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan Thursday, CM Nitish Kumar took PM Modi‘s hand and lifted it with his to greet a large cheering crowd, marking the new dynamic in their relationship since the JDU president rejoined NDA in Jan 2024.The transformation could not have been starker compared to their…
NEW DELHI: A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday disapproved in dismay a two-judge bench’s decision to use SC’s Article 142 powers to grant ‘deemed assent’ to 10 Bills pending for long with Tamil Nadu governor and said it was a fallacious exercise of powers to achieve a constitutionally impermissible goal. A bench…
From the left: Lorene, 79; Timmy, 46; Betty, 73; Ray, 72; and Larry, 69 (with Ray, Lorene and Timmy later seperated by the state)/ Image: YouTube/Soft White Undderbelly The dirt road into Odd, West Virginia, bends gently between tree lines and a seam of rusted fencing before opening onto the Whittaker property, a scatter of…
NEW DELHI: The Tamil Nadu govt’s 2023 writ petition accusing the governor of deliberately not acting on 10 bills passed by the state assembly had led a two-judge Supreme Court bench to pen a 415-page judgment on April 8, stripping the constitutional heads of states of the minimal discretionary power conferred on them by the…
Lucknow: A string of unsolved burglaries across Lucknow’s southern zone was finally cracked after the PGI police and the Southern Zone Surveillance Cell arrested a four-member interstate theft gang that targeted locked houses for weeks. The breakthrough came after investigators painstakingly scanned more than 200 CCTV camera feeds, used technical surveillance tools, and deployed manual…
NEW DELHI: Ten years after the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 came into force, a new study by the India Justice Report has exposed how the country’s juvenile justice system is crumbling under the same ills that plague adult courts – massive delays, crippling vacancies and shocking opacity. Children in conflict…